What we do
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...
Hammana Hosts SPNL’s Traveling Exhibition “Stitching One Hima At A Time” in Celebration of Nature, Art, and Community
Under the esteemed patronage of the Mayor of Hammana, Dr. Amine Lebbos, and in close cooperation with Hammana Municipality, the Society for the Protection...
AUB Students Join SPNL’s Hima Farm for Community Service and Environmental Awareness in Hammana
In a vibrant display of youth engagement and environmental stewardship, a group of students from the American University of Beirut (AUB) has joined the...
Enhancing livelihoods of local Lebanese communities in Hima territories
SPNL started to implement the project “Enhancing livelihoods of local Lebanese communities in Hima territories; from social, economic and natural perspectives” funded by the...
Demonstrating Community-based Sustainable Management of Important Eastern Mediterranean KBA in Anti-Lebanon...
Project Goal:To improve the conservation status of key biodiversity areas in Lebanon.
Project Overall Objective: To reduce the grazing threatening activities in Anti-Lebanon Mountain KBA...
Nurturing NGO Capacity to Engage in Biodiversity Conservation in the Eastern...
Project Goal:building a more effective and cooperative conservation community. The expected impact of the project is an improved conservation status of species, ecosystems and...
Capacity Development for Flyway Conservation in the Mediterranean
Project Goal:
A flyway conservation programme is developed and maintained in the Mediterranean region that is stable, sustainable, growing and increasingly effective, spearheaded by...
Restoring Hima Ecosystem functions though promoting sustainable community -based water management...
Project Goals:
- By 2015, the water table in the mountain aquifers is high enough to ensure an average yearly outflow of the Anjar and...
Promoting Hima Women Empowerment for Conservation and Livelihood
Project Goal:The livelihood of rural women is enhanced through the revival of the Hima approach in the sustainable management of the IBAs of Lebanon.
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