We received from a group of people that while they were practicing walking in nature, in the church area and the upper part of the Baabda district, they were shocked to see a scene to say the least that it was an environmental massacre represented by cutting down hundreds of perennial trees from their roots in the sanctuary of the Beirut River Valley, which is classified as a protected natural site as an important area for diversity biological.

T.E.R.R.E.Liban Association monitored huge excavations and road construction near the archaeological site of Al-Jawza in Mishmesheh #Al-Zaarour, at an altitude of 1420 meters above sea level. This area, which is rich in springs and distinctive rock formations, is also the site of a Roman-Byzantine complex that includes baths, a wine press, a mosaic courtyard, Roman villas, sarcophagi, and inscriptions, all dating back to the fifth century AD. The Land Association - Lebanon calls on those concerned to move immediately to stop the works and open an investigation, especially since the site is in an environmentally sensitive area rich in antiquities.

A daily follow-up by the Land Association - Lebanon and the media of the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Abbas Hajj Hassan, and the Directorate of Rural Development and Natural Resources in the Ministry of Agriculture, on the resumption of firewood merchants committing crimes of cutting perennial trees in the town of Hardin - Batroun district.

The file of the crime of defacing Wadi al-Jamajim, compiled in 1998, a natural site, comes to the fore following the decision of the Governor of Mount Lebanon, which stipulated the ban on the passage of vehicles on the Wadi al-Jamajim-Baskinta highway for a period of three months, due to the project of former Minister Elias Bou Saab aimed at widening the road and funded by Selling rocks resulting from a mobile crusher as the attached picture shows. Note that the areas classified as a natural site such as Wadi al-Jamajim prohibit the investment of rock quarries for crushers within its scope, according to Article 1 of Decree regulating quarries and quarries No. 8803/2002 and its amendments.