Between November and December 2025, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) intensified its work across Lebanon’s most sensitive ecosystems, rivers, wetlands, agricultural landscapes, and emerging protected areas. Behind a dense calendar of meetings, field visits, trainings, and technical reporting lies a unified effort to restore ecosystems, strengthen ecological connectivity, and embed conservation within communities and local governance. Across projects ranging from freshwater restoration to bird protection, climate resilience, and biosphere reserve planning, SPNL’s teams worked in parallel on one shared objective, turning science, policy, and community engagement into durable conservation outcomes.

In the early hours of the morning, when mist still lingers above wetlands and fields, Chadi Saad is already in the field. Notebook in hand, binoculars at the ready, he moves quietly through reedbeds, agricultural margins, and river corridors, recording what many pass by unnoticed. As Director of the SPNL Birdwatching Observatory in Hammana Reserve, Chadi Saad plays a central role in documenting Lebanon’s birdlife and translating observation into conservation knowledge. Between late November and early January, his work in the Beqaa Valley intensified, producing a steady stream of verified checklists and field reports across some of Lebanon’s most ecologically significant landscapes.