Awareness Session in Qammouaa – Fnaydeq on Responsible Hunting and Biodiversity Protection
As part of national efforts to combat illegal hunting and promote the sustainable management of natural resources, the Anti-Poaching Unit (APU), upon the invitation...
Building Lebanon’s First Natural Park: SPNL Engages Local Leaders in the Beirut River Valley
As part of the project “Beirut River Valley: Towards Establishing Lebanon’s First Natural Park”, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC),...
Lebanese Relief Scouts Join Awareness Session on Combating Illegal Hunting
In Harajel, the Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) organized an engaging awareness session for the Lebanese Relief Scouts – Mar Roukoz School Troop in Qlayaat. The...
Lebanese Environment Forum Pushes for a Legal Framework for Marine Protected Areas Network in Lebanon
After years of active efforts to safeguard Lebanon’s environment, particularly its coastal and marine ecosystems, the Lebanese Environment Forum (LEF), in partnership with the...
Warmer climate threatening to northern birds
Will northern birds such as the Siberian jay and the red-flanked bluetail be gone in 50 years? There is a huge risk since a...
Researcher studies increased predation of sagebrush songbirds in natural gas fields
Arid land bird populations are in decline around the vicinity of oil and gas wells in Wyoming -- but, not for the reasons you...
Pufferfish Love Explains Mysterious Underwater Circles
In 1995, divers noticed a beautiful, strange circular pattern on the seafloor off Japan, and soon after, more circles were discovered nearby. Some likened...
6 things you might have missed from the 2016 Red List
By Alex Dale,
ales of parrots in peril and giraffes in jeopardy dominated the headlines when the 2016 edition of the Red List was published...
2016 Red List: great news for island endemics, disaster for cagebirds
By Alex Dale,
This year’s IUCN Red List update delivers a chilling warning about the plight faced by some of the world’s most popular cagebirds,...
Only a handful of countries on track to meet their biodiversity...
At the Convention on Biological Diversity today, global conservation NGOs released a report revealing that just 5 percent of countries who have reported...
