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High-up view of the landscape and bright blue sky.
The Bekka Valley and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains from Al-Shouf, Lebanon.
© Conservation International/photo by Pierre Carret
Demonstrating Sustainable Management of Important Eastern Mediterranean Forests and Key Biodiversity Areas in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Grantee Name: 
Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon
HOTSPOT
Mediterranean Basin
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$220,220
DATES
Mar 2013
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Feb 2015
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Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Mediterranean Basin
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$220,220
DATES
Mar 2013
-
Feb 2015

Revive the traditional Hima approach of land husbandry, integrating the grazing needs of the local shepherds into a sustainable management plan within a collaboratively agreed-upon zone of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains Key Biodiversity Area.

Strategic Direction: 3 Improve the conservation and protection status of 44 priority key biodiversity areas

Midori Prize winner Assad Serhal stands in the center of his team of women and men from the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon.
Midori Prize for Biodiversity winner Assad Serhal, center, stands with his team from the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon.
© O. Langrand