A Future Rooted in the Land: SPNL’s New Playbook Opens the Door to Community Conservation
Combining an ancient tradition with practical steps for local action, the Hima Playbook shows how communities can protect nature while sustaining the livelihoods, knowledge...
From “What Is a Hima?” to “How Do We Begin?”: A Playbook for Community Conservation
By Assad Serhal
Director General, Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL)
Whenever we speak about the revival of the Hima, two questions almost...
Women and the Hima: Empowering Communities, Protecting Nature and Sustaining Livelihoods
The Hima: A relationship between people and nature
The Hima is more than a protected geographical area. It represents a relationship between people, nature, culture...
118 Lebanese Environmental NGOs Endorse the “Hima for Peace” Initiative
SPNL to expand the initiative through engagement with ten ministries and launch it internationally in Nairobi on 8 September 2026
A broad coalition of 118...
United Nations CBD COP14 Egypt: MIDORI Prize Winners 2018
AEON Environmental Foundation" MIDORI Prize winners “ film to the UN CBD COP 14, Sharm ElSheikh, Egypt.
The winners of the 2018 MIDORI Prize are...
Message from the Princess
Assad Serhal the Director General of SPNL (Birdlife Lebanon) received the following message from BirdLife's Honorary President Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan:
Dear Assad
I...
Biodiversity Monitoring Intern/volunteer vacancy -MAVA project
As part of the Mava Shouf Project, “Building the ecologic and socio-economic resilience of the Shouf Mountain Landscape by restoring and strengthening the socio-cultural...
Looking to the past to create a better future: Assad Serhal...
Assad Serhal, hunter-turned-conservationist, now Director of BirdLife Lebanon and winner of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018, shares what motivates his important work to...
MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018 will hold an award ceremony on...
The AEON Environmental Foundation (Chairman: Takuya Okada, Honorary Chairman and Adviser of AEON Co., Ltd.) announced today that it will hold an award ceremony...
Winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018
The winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018 were announced today. The MIDORI Prize is a prestigious biennial international prize organized by the...
