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...
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...
Project Planning workshop Using the Opening Standards Approach
Through the generous support of the MAVA Foundation, SPNL organized an evaluation and a phase II Planning Workshop for the project titled “ Restoring...
Maximizing the value of birds for tourism – guidebook released
By Julien.Jreissati,
The BirdLife-led Migratory Soaring Birds (MSB) project has developed a guidebook that provides practical information to maximize the value that birds bring to...
Major breakthrough in fight to save Asian vultures from extinction
By Martin Fowlie
A major step for the future of vultures in Asia has been announced by the Indian Ministry of Health. A ban of...
News in Photos: Isis releases photos of the northern bald Ibis...
Isis releases photos of the Northern Bald Ibis in Palmyra -- the last surviving colony in the Middle East. The Northern Bald Ibis may...
Birds-of-Paradise Project
It took 8 years and 18 expeditions to New Guinea, Australia, and nearby islands, but Cornell Lab scientist Ed Scholes and National Geographic photographer...
New scientific report reveals: “2.6 million birds illegally slaughtered in Lebanon...
Unlawfully shot, trapped or glued: tens of millions of birds are being killed illegally each year across the Mediterranean, according to the first scientific...
