Lebanon’s Protected Areas: Between Ancient Traditions and Global Conservation Goals
Lebanon is at a crossroads: its protected areas, recorded in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), reveal both achievements and gaps in the...
Guardians of Hima: Youth Leading Lebanon’s Environmental Future
Through its BioConnect Aside Event project, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), in collaboration with the Modern University for Business...
“Earth and Freedom” Sports and Environmental Activity in Baysour Hima
As part of efforts to promote environmental awareness and encourage outdoor sports, the Directorate of Education and Youth of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party...
Lebanon Launches First National Bird Distribution Map within Key Biodiversity Areas
In a groundbreaking step for environmental conservation, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) has unveiled the country’s first comprehensive map...
Hima Qoleileh
This coastal area is known for its marine biodiversity, leading SPNL and the municipality to announce it as a Hima in 2006. This 0.01...
Al Hima : a way of life
This book is the fruit of a wide collaboration. It is an expression of rich ideas. But most of all it’s an articulation
of passion....
Conservation of the Marine Hima of Qoleileh Village, South Lebanon
Background
Qoleileh, a coastal village in South Lebanon, is home to one of the country's few remaining healthy marine ecosystems. It has rocky shores, seagrass...
Birds of the Middle East
A translated version into Arabic of the field guide “Birds of the Middle East” that identifies all the birds, local or migratory, through the...
Hima Ebel El-Saqi
On top of a hill, 760m above sea level, this 0.01 km2 area was declared as a Hima in 2004. Its faunal and floral...
MedWet guidelines manual
An Arabic translated book that discusses the measures for the conservation of wetlands around the Mediterranean basin. It is a translated version of the...
