Lebanon’s Protected Areas: Between Ancient Traditions and Global Conservation Goals
Lebanon is at a crossroads: its protected areas, recorded in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), reveal both achievements and gaps in the...
Guardians of Hima: Youth Leading Lebanon’s Environmental Future
Through its BioConnect Aside Event project, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), in collaboration with the Modern University for Business...
“Earth and Freedom” Sports and Environmental Activity in Baysour Hima
As part of efforts to promote environmental awareness and encourage outdoor sports, the Directorate of Education and Youth of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party...
Lebanon Launches First National Bird Distribution Map within Key Biodiversity Areas
In a groundbreaking step for environmental conservation, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) has unveiled the country’s first comprehensive map...
SPNL First Lodge and Hima Farm at Tyre
Since the inception of SPNL in 1984, the Saidi family placed its Tyre residence and gardens at the disposal of SPNL management and staff. It...
Landscape assessment and analysis of Hima Kayfoun and Shimlan
On May 10 and 11, 2018, the students at the Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management in the American University of Beirut (AUB)...
Lebanese Bird Conservation Coalition: Our struggle to protect natural heritage and...
In the last few days, there have been several reports of illegal massacres of migrant and locally breeding birds. These shooting incidents have been recorded from the north to the south of Lebanon and many places in-between.
Further...
Birdlife ME delegation visited Hima Keyfoun
Birdlife ME director Ibrahim Khader and Migratory Soaring Birds project manager Ossam AlNouri
visited today SPNL's Mount Lebanon Hima Center and Keyfoun community center.
The visit...
SPNL to open the first butterfly garden at Hima Kherbet Kanafar
Butterfly gardening is a type of sustainable, low maintenance gardening that attracts and maintains butterflies year after year. Threats facing Lebanon's 165 species of...
