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...
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...
Wings & Waves – SPNL’s Newsletter April 2015
Hima Fakiha contains a very important and fragile xeric ecosystem in Lebanon, and is a stronghold of endemism. The threats of overgrazing, erosion, and...
New Policy for Hima Anjar Water Users Association
Through the support of the MAVA Foundation and as a part of the project "Restoring Hima Ecosystems Function through promoting sustainable community-based water management...
SPNL is training local communities to make Traditional Flutes and ...
Within the EU funded project “Enhancing livelihoods of local Lebanese communities in Hima territories; from social, economic and natural perspectives” framework, the first two...
Meet the animal that’s rarer – and cuter – than a...
Native to a remote region of China, this tiny mammal, known as the Ili pika, doesn't know it's a member of an endangered species...
Hima Fakiha Wildflower Guide: Get a Spring in your step while...
When one thinks of Lebanon, one does not usually think of desert. 'A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Hima Fakiha and the Adjoining...
News in Photos: The Pine Forests of Akkar by Antoine Daher
Akkar, which stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the mountains of Northern Lebanon, is the country’s richest region in forests.
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