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Assad Serhal, the Director General of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL),and BirdLife Partner Lebanon, was awarded the IUCN Honorary Membership Award at the council meeting of the World Conservation Congress 2020, which explored, this year, the link
Assad Serhal, the Director General of SPNL (Birdlife Lebanon) and the winner of Midori Prize 2018 is nominated by IUCN Council, on the recommendation of the Awards Jury, to the World Conservation Congress for the conferral of Honorary Membership. The event will take place in
“The first time I held the binoculars to my eyes I fell in love with birds…” This statement sums up Mr. Assad Serhal’s passion for nature as a whole. From cofounding The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL ) in 1983 to establishing 25 Hima Protected areas
In this video, Assad Serhal explains why Hima is Important? Al Hima’ which means a protected area or place is a traditional system of management of resources practiced by indigenous people in the Arabian Peninsula. This concept has been used by the Society for the Protection
The preparation to release tens of Black Francolin (Partridge) into the wild this autumn represents a big step forward to re-establish a Black Francolin colony on the riparian forest of Jahliyeh, Mount Lebanon. The Society for the Protection of Lebanon (SPNL), and Jahliyeh
Together we can protect the Upper Beirut River Valley Training Homat Al Hima from Ras El Metn and Hammana Promoting Traditional Land-use Practices in the Upper Beirut River Valley, Lebanon CEPF Project Rania Khalil- Project Manager Dates: 23 and 24 July 2021 Place: Center
Together we can protect the Upper Beirut River Valley Training Homat Al Hima from Ras El Metn and Hammana Promoting Traditional Land-use Practices in the Upper Beirut River Valley, Lebanon CEPF Project Rania Khalil- Project Manager Dates: 16 and 17 July 2021 Place: Center
In order to strengthen the Hima communal governance system for participatory cultural landscapes’ management and to ensure local community empowerment, stewardship, and engagement in the management of the landscape, SPNL and under MAVA “Cultural Landscape” Project has
Once again OSME is teaming-up with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) to repeat the successful count of migrating soaring birds in autumn 2019 made with the help of BirdLife Sweden and BirdLife Switzerland. In that autumn a team of Lebanese and
As part of the civic engagement, the Lebanese Civil Defense, Hammana Station, has played a major role in bridging the gap between the misconception that communities have about the aim of the Lebanese Civil Defense and their actual role on the ground. As such, Hammana station