Saving a Cedar Forest - Nasri Kawar

The Tannourine cedar forest is the largest forest in Lebanon. It has been declared a nature reserve in 1999. In recent years, a serious new insect pest, Cephalcia tannourinensis, appeared causing severe damage to trees. AUB scientists, Nasri S. Kawar and Nabil Nemer, have been involved in studying the life cycle of the pest and developing means of minimizing its damage.
Financial support has been received from GEF-UNEP, FAO, Lebanese Ministries of Agriculture and environment. The DVD shows the accomplishments in managing this insect pest and related activities that have been supported throught a $1.2 million project entitled "Integrated Management of Cedar Forests in Lebanon in Collaboration with other Mediterranean Countries" funded by GEF-UNEP to the Ministry of Environment and implemented by AUB from 2004-2007.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• American
• University
• of
• Beirut
• AUB
• FAFS
• Cedar
• Forest
• Nasri
• Kawar
• Nabil
• Nemer
• Lebanese
• Ministries
• Agriculture
• and
• env

[naradaian]

Are theyre any weblinks you can point me too for more info. well done - thought I thought the cedar forsts had all gone

[raymolly1980]

thank you mr Kawar for your effort to save such a treasurer................and thanks to all the team

but i hope the program of funding includes ,planting new cedar trees to expand the forest

to become much larger  thank you

[nskawar]

Thank you for your comment. Please tell me your name and where do you live.

Regards, Nasri Kawar

[pokitopixel]

I'm glad there are people taking care of the natural environment back in Lebanon. Tannourine is my mom's hometown so watching this video brought a lot of nostalgic feelings. Thank you guys.