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SPNL is the national partner for BirdLife International in Lebanon. We strive to conserve biodiversity for the provision of a better quality of life through sustaining sites, habitats, species, and people.
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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...

Nature’s Silent Guardians: Celebrating Vultures on International Vulture Awareness Day

A Misunderstood Bird with a Vital Role They circle high above the savannas, deserts, and mountains, their silhouettes stark against the horizon. For centuries, vultures...
The Beirut River Valley stands out as both a Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) and a Prime Butterfly Area (PBA) in Lebanon

2,900 Species Illustrated, 440 Recorded in Beirut Valley: Lebanon’s Biodiversity in Focus

Lebanon’s Beirut Valley has once again revealed its secrets through the lens of biomonitoring. With every hike, photograph, and field note, Husein Ali Zorkot...

Mapping Lebanon’s Green Heart: A Landmark Flora and Biodiversity Map

Lebanon has taken a significant step forward in documenting and protecting its natural heritage with the launch of the first national map of flora...
Biodiversity Guardianship
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US desert songbirds at risk in a warming climate

Projected increases in the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves in the desert of the southwestern United States are putting songbirds at greater risk...
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Today is #WomensDay! When women workers organize, they can achieve anything.

The 2017 theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, focuses on “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”. The world of...
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Pesticides are “global human rights concern”, say UN experts urging new...

Two United Nations experts are calling for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming,...
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Kherbet Qanafar hosts the closing ceremony of “Enhancing livelihoods of Lebanese...

The Society for The Protection of Nature in Lebanon organized a closing ceremony for the European Union-funded project entitled “Enhancing livelihoods of Lebanese communities...
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Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! For the occasion, we decode the secret language of...

By Lipu & Alice Paone When we talk about birdsong, we cannot simply refer to a single "voice". It is a great chorus of complex...
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Hima Akoura

A real ecological jewel of Mount Lebanon, characterized by its important floral and faunal richness especially known for ancient maple trees, juniper forest, wild...