What we do
Guardians of Lebanon’s Forests and Seas: A New Chapter in Environmental Protection
After years of anticipation, Lebanon has taken a bold and much-needed step toward safeguarding its natural treasures. On June 22, 2025, the Lebanese government...
A Rare Visitor in the Reeds: Glossy Ibis Spotted Feeding in Lebanon’s Ammiq Wetland
In the early glow of a summer morning, amidst the shimmering wetlands of East Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, a rare and mesmerizing scene unfolded. A...
Kornayel Declares its Public Forest a Hima: A Landmark Step for Lebanon’s Environmental Heritage
In a groundbreaking move for nature conservation and sustainable development, the Municipality of Kornayel has taken a decisive step to safeguard its most precious...
Lebanon’s Hima Sites Officially Recognized in World Database on Protected Areas
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) is proud to announce that 27 Hima sites across Lebanon have been officially approved...
The Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar)
By Fouad Itani,
The Chukar Partridge is a large game bird from the pheasant family. It measures 35 cm in length, with a wingspan of...
1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week: “Building a regional network to conserve...
SPNL attended the first Plant Conservation Week which was held in Ulcinj, Montenegro from Oct.24 to Oct.29. Botanists; civil society institutions working in the plant conservation field; community...
My experience with a very generous man, Luc Hofmann
* Ghassan Ramadan Jaradi
In September 1973, I was registered to prepare a PhD of ornithology in Saint Jerome University (Aix-Marseille III University) at the...
Nature Alert: Letter to an Enemy
In the summer of 2015, the EU Commission began considering whether to rewrite the vital laws that protect Europe’s wildlife and nature. They...
Buy a stamp, save a migratory bird
This time of the year in many parts of North America, it’s easy to find geese flying south in V-shaped flocks from their summer...
Roman Sidonian Glass Flask with Birds and Butterflies
"From this point we must go back to the coast and to Phoenicia. There was formerly a town called Crocodilon, and there is still...
