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...
SPNL and 24 international NGOs sound the alarm bell to prevent...
Over 98% of the lake Marmara wetland has dried up in the last 10 years. 25 NGOs and research institutions from the Mediterranean Alliance...
Anahita In Prague Zoo
The story of Anahita excited thousands of people around the world. Remember that she was tagged with a GPS transmitter in Bulgaria but shot by poachers...
School With No Walls – SNOW program set a calendar for...
In the framework of “BioConnect”, a project funded by the European Union, several meetings were held in the project's target areas, namely Ras El...
Agriculture & Rural Development Initiatives People, Products & Territory
Barcelona – Fighting rural poverty, weak economy, loss of soils and arable lands, and loss of biodiversity, the Centre Civic La Sedeta, Mediterranean Eco-operation Program,...
Illegal night hunting in Arida North Lebanon: Violators arrested and weapons...
After night hunting violations were documented in the Arida border area by sustainable hunters in North Lebanon, the Anti-Poaching Unit (APU), which is affiliated...
APPEAL – WETLANDS ARE OUR ‘LIFE INSURANCE’ AGAINST THE COMBINED CLIMATE...
2022 is set to break all records – temperatures, heat waves, droughts – in Europe, revealing the vulnerability of our agriculture, our forestry management,...
