Anti-Poaching Unit
Responsible Hunter Hands Over Three Long-Eared Owl Chicks to APU
In a gesture reflecting a commendable sense of environmental responsibility, Lebanese hunter Khaled Al-Kurdi handed over three long-eared owl chicks to the Anti-Poaching Unit...
Illegal Songbird Trapping Sites Shut Down in Barja, Lebanon: Over 800 Meters of Nets Removed
In a coordinated operation to combat the illegal trapping of migratory birds, more than 800 meters of bird extermination nets were removed in the...
Illegal Bird Nets Removed in Western Bekaa
In a coordinated operation to combat illegal bird trapping, security forces removed bird extermination nets in the area between Mansoura and Gaza in the...
From the Skies to Sanctuary: A Marsh Harrier’s Fight for Survival
In the fertile lands of Khiyara, a village nestled in Lebanon’s West Bekaa Valley, a tragic yet telling scene unfolded one spring morning. A...
Open letter: give our birds safe passage over Lebanon this spring
With the spring migration just a few weeks away, conservation groups the world over have come together in support of an open letter to...
People of the Serbian village of Taraš to President Aoun: Please...
Dear Mr. President, Your Excellency General Michel Naim Aoun,
I am writting to You in the name of the Association of citizens “Taraš storks” and...
Joint Appeal of 52 organizations from 28 countries to the President...
A group of 52 Lebanese and European Environmental NGOs and International BirdLife partners from 28 countries have signed an open letter asking President Michel Aoun to enforce the Peace Treaty...
Please Mr. President Aoun make the sky over Lebanon safe for...
Just a few days before the start of the spring bird migration over Your country, 52 signatories from 28 countries – mostly leading non-governmental...
Lead poisoning: the long goodbye
By Gui-Xi Young
1 million birds are fatally poisoned in Europe each year by ingesting lead shot from expended cartridges. The EU’s European Chemicals Agency...
Bird Conservation International (BCI) publishes paper on illegal killing & taking...
Today the peer-reviewed quarterly journal Bird Conservation International publishes a paper entitled "Illegal killing and taking of birds in Europe outside the Mediterranean:...
