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.
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From Rivers to Resilience: How SPNL Advanced Nature Conservation Across Lebanon in Late 2025

Between November and December 2025, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) intensified its work across Lebanon’s most sensitive ecosystems, rivers,...

At Dawn in the Beqaa: How SPNL s Tracking Lebanon’s Birds, One Checklist at a Time

In the early hours of the morning, when mist still lingers above wetlands and fields, Chadi Saad is already in the field. Notebook in...
Azanus-jesous-J.M.-Garg Photo Credit : Husein Ali Zorkot 

SPNL and the Art of Conservation: Documenting Life, One Species at a Time in Lebanon

In a modest field cabin overlooking the hills of Mount Lebanon, surrounded by sketchbooks, cameras, plant presses, and reference volumes, the work of documenting...

SPNL Participates in Rachaya and Beyond’s Ceremony Marking Ten Years of Volunteer Action

At the kind invitation of Rachaya and Beyond, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) took part in the honorary ceremony...
Publications
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Game birds in the Arab world

The book describes and identifies the birds of prey that exist in the Arab world.
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Qoleileh Natural Delights

The pamphlet includes data about the establishment and conservation of the marine Hima in Qoleileh village and creating a new income generating opportunity for...
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Identification and Conservation of New Important Bird Areas in Lebanon

This pamphlet focuses on birds in general, the definition and description of the IBA programme, benefits of IBA inventories, Hima approach, and the list...
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Game birds – Building Capacity for Sustainable Hunting of Migratory Birds...

The pamphlet includes a study done all over Lebanon from 2005 to 2006 which focuses on the situation of hunting, in addition to data...
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SUSTAINABLE HUNTING – Building Capacity for Sustainable Hunting of Migratory Birds...

This pamphlet includes the results of a study done from June 2005 to February 2006 in Lebanon, tackling the topic of hunting in Lebanon....
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Common Birds of Lebanon

This CD provides a list of the common birds of Lebanon with interesting information about their common names in English and Arabic, habitats, food,...