SPNL

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.
2146 Articles written
spot_img
Hima

Diplomats Celebrate Nature and Community in Hima Ras Al Matn

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) proudly commends the Al Matn Organisation for Environmental and Sustainable Development (MESD) for organizing...

Poaching Crisis Decimates Lesser Spotted Eagles in Lebanon

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) is sounding the alarm after the tragic discovery of a critically injured Lesser Spotted...

Turning Waste into Hope: SPNL Empowers Hima Municipalities to Protect the Upper Litani River

As part of the “Reviving the Upper Litani River and Qaraoun Lake” project, funded by DIMFE, the Society for the Protection of Nature in...

Towards a Cleaner River and a Greener Future: Joint Field Patrol for the first River Hima 

Today, HHIC Manager Wassim El Khatib carried out a joint field patrol with Litani River Authority (LRA) representative Mohamad Bou Kamal and Lebanon Reforestation...
Fish and Wildlife Unit
SPNL

SPNL’s Fish and Wildlife Unit is on track to help conserve...

The Fish and Wildlife Unit (FWU), launched by SPNL earlier this year to support fish and wildlife conservation across different habitats in Lebanon, is...
SPNL

First complete pterosaur from Lebanon: insight into pterodactyloid diversity

Abstract Despite being known from every continent, the geological record of pterosaurs, the first group of vertebrates to develop powered flight, is very uneven, with...
SPNL

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) released back into the wild

In the past days we released another rehabilitated birds back into the wild. Three out of four Common Kestrels were illegal hunting casualties recovered. After...
SPNL

Patricia Zurita: “We need a new economic system based on nature”

The head of BirdLife International on why safeguarding other species is inseparable from ensuring humanity’s own survival. In 1995, a young Patricia Zurita was researching...
SPNL

$3 billion wetland conservation project launched for birds, nature & people

Today, BirdLife announced an ambitious new collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership to protect wetlands along one of...
SPNL

Season’s tweetings: World Migratory Bird Day celebrated at SPNL’s Himas across...

People all over the world celebrated on October 9 World Migratory Bird Day, a global campaign that aims to raise awareness of migratory birds...