The “Trail of Roses” at Hima Diman Gardens: Where Nature Meets Spirituality—and Rain Blesses the Opening
Under the patronage and in the presence of Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, with Dr. Antoine Sfeir representing President of the Republic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
$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...
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...
