Project Planning workshop Using the Opening Standards Approach

Through the generous support of the MAVA Foundation, SPNL organized an evaluation and a phase II Planning Workshop for the project titled “ Restoring Hima Ecosystem Function through community based Management “using the Opening Standard Approach . The workshop was lead by of

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Wings & Waves – SPNL’s Newsletter May 2014

  Web Version  | Like Tweet Forward Wings & Waves – SPNL’s Newsletter Issue May 2014 SPNL volunteer caught wild animals and filmed them in Anjar SPNL volunteer Berj Tamborian caught wild animals and filmed the scenes  in Hima Anjar. Tamborian recorded

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SPNL volunteer caught wild animals and filmed them in Anjar

SPNL volunteer Berj Tamborian caught wild animals and filmed the scenes  in Hima Anjar. Tamborian recorded the scenes he created by feeding several animals including bedger, hyena, river otter, porcupine, red fox, rock partridge, and weasle. Mammals are perhaps the hardest

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Launching of the SNOW Program in Anjar

SPNL is announcing the launching of its School with No Walls (SNOW) program in Hima Anjar –Kfar Zabad, through the initiation of the first Hima Educational Summer Camp in the area. SNOW is an educational program initiated by SPNL in collaboration with its partner Great

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Let’s Protect Anjar-Kfar Zabad Wetland

Every year on the 2nd of February, the world celebrates World Wetlands Day. The celebrations mark the adoption of the Convention of Wetlands of International importance on the same date in 1971 in the Ramsar, Iran. On this date, activists work on raising public awareness on

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Hima Aanjar

Located in Zahle district, Hima Anjar is characterized by an interesting mixture between wetlands, woodland and agri- cultural fields. It is categorized by SPNL as an important birds and biodiversity area (IBBA) due to its environmental conditions leading to the breeding of

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A Tradition of Conservation

Written by: Tom Verde Photographed by: Pascal Beaudenon Early in the seventh century, soon after Muslims established themselves in what is now the holy city of Madinah (formerly Yathrib), the Prophet Muhammad surveyed the natural resources in the region—the wadis

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