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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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Doroub Al-Hima

Selaata Unveils a New Hima Trail Linking Mountain, Heritage, and Sea

Exploration highlights ancient salt pans, historic cave, traditional olive press, and rich natural landscapes A team from the Society for the Protection of Nature in...
Hima

BioConnect Programme Concludes, Leaving a Lasting Legacy for Biodiversity Conservation in Lebanon

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), together with its consortium partners and the European Union, celebrated the successful completion of...
Hima

Nature and Humanity Under Fire, Yet Hope Endures Through Hima

By Assad Serhal Director General, Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) BirdLife International Global Council Member As I return from Samarkand following the Eighth...
Biodiversity Guardianship

SPNL Celebrates LIFE Citizens’ Prize Win and Reaffirms Its Contribution to Egyptian Vulture Conservation

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) has congratulated the partners of the project "Urgent Action to Strengthen the Balkan Population...
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The largest Nature reserve in Lebanon (approx. 5% of the Territory) encompassing the best remaining strand of cedar forests where over 160 bird species

Important Bird Areas-IBAs: Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve

  Location: Situated in the Shouf Mountains overlooking the Mediterranean Sea to the West and the length of the Bekaa valley to the east. Streches...
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much of the mountain is protected from hunting and grazing, some trees have been planted by the Rim water company that owns most of the site

Important Bird Areas-IBAs: Rim-Sannine

 Location: North-west of the town of Zahle, on the southern flanks of Mount Sannine in the Mount Lebanon Range. Total area: 244 ha IBA...
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Flat or gently undulating stony desert and semi-desert, rising up to a wide wadi extending eastwards into the Anti-Lebanon Range

Important Bird Areas-IBAs: Ras Baalbek

Location: The Ras Baalbek IBA is found at the extreme north end of the Bekaa Valley, in north-east Lebanon, extending up into the foothills...
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A wide valley (the valley of the River Safa, which becomes the Damour River closer to the coast) containing Pine woodland, terraced orchards, low scrub and some bare rocky cliffs

Important Bird Areas-IBAs: Ramlieh Valley

Location: In the Shouf region of the Mount Lebanon range, south of the towns of Saoufar and Bhamdoun, and about 17km south-east of Beirut....
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Observations suggest that over 20,000 raptors, Storks, Pelicans and other soaring birds pass over the lake annually

Important Bird Areas-IBAs: Lake Qaraoun

Location: Lake Qaraoun is the largest freshwater body by far in Lebanon, lying at the Southern end of the Bekaa valley, which is a...
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The area inhabits 14 large and medium mammal species such as the Rock Hyrax. 215 plant species among which 20 tree species and 11 endemics

Important Bird Areas-IBAs: Jabal Moussa

Location: The site is a mountain which extends westwards from the main Mount Lebanon chain along the edge of the Nahr Ibrahim, just to...
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