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...
Butterflies of the Bekaa Valley: A Scientific Photographic Survey in Hima...
Documenting Biodiversity in Lebanon’s Broadleaf Oak Forest Ecosystem
By Husein Ali Zorkot
Amid the rolling hills and ancient broadleaf oak forests of Hima Kherbet Qanafar, a...
When, Where, And Why Are Soaring Migrants Dying? Geographic Differences In...
Bird migration has long fascinated humanity and scientists have long puzzled over how migration evolves and how it can be maintained in natural populations....
World Migratory Bird Day: the ultimate bi-annual celebration of the amazing...
Things kick off on Saturday 8 May 2021 with World Migratory Bird Day, the ultimate bi-annual celebration of the amazing endurance of migratory birds...
Birds can change their traditions for the better: study shows Immigration...
Researchers at the University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Germany have found that birds are able to change their...
APU rescues swarm of storks from potential killing
Based on a tipoff from sustainable hunters saying that a flock of storks had landed in the Western Bekaa locality of Safra, between Qob...
Tackling illegal killing and saving birds from limesticks in Lebanon
As part of our effort to curb the devastating damage wreaked by the illegal killing of birds, The Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) of the Society...
