AUB - Nature Conservation Center (NCC) formerly known as IBSAR, is an academic research center, founded in 2002,
under the office of the Provost at the
American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut (AUB; ) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its main campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, autonomous board of trustees and offers programs le ...
(AUB),
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
. It is a platform for multidisciplinary projects that promote nature conservation.
The center's members consist of faculty from different disciplines.
Programs
NCC is a member of the
Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty. The Convention has three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity); the sustainable use of its ...
(CBD) and the Green Map Organization. Every year, the Center celebrates the International Biodiversity Day At AUB,
(IBDAA) with all the AUB community. It organizes the yearly “Biodiversity Village Award”
(BVA) and offers participating municipalities different awards for the best green practices.
Tree planting is one of the activities the center leads under its “Ana Shajara” program,
which has greened Lebanon with more than 82,000 trees since 2004. As part of its research
activities, the NCC has been studying medicinal properties of molecules extracted from
marine and terrestrial
Economic and Social Council of Western Asia
species.
References
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External links
* http://www.aubnatureconservation.org{{Dead link, date=September 2019 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes AUB Nature Conservation Center Website
* http://www.aub.edu.lb AUB Website
*http://www.aub.edu.lb/provost/Pages/index.aspx office of the provost
American University of Beirut