Mongabay looked into three inspiring landscape restoration efforts in three different countries. In Lebanon, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, residents have taken things into their own hands and have started restoration projects. Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia’s Womangrove Collective, and Kinandu village in DRC are experiments and projects where local communities are working […]
SHOUF BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Lebanon Late afternoon light falls across Talal Riman’s weathered face as he stands under the ancient cedars he’s tended for almost three decades in Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR). Riman used to defend these trees against would-be loggers and human-caused forest fires with a pump-action shotgun. Now, the SBR team protects […]
Lebanon’s fuel crisis threatens a wide range of nature reserves and treasured trees as people resort to chopping firewood to keep them warm. Conservationists warn that this new trend may have disastrous consequences for Lebanon's flora and fauna.