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Document Details : Title: Jabal Rihane Reserve Author(s): TOHME, Georges , TOHME, Henriette Journal: ARAM Periodical Volume: 17 Date: 2005 Pages: 285-356 DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.17.0.583336 Abstract : In early December 2001, the Reverend Father Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd telephone me from London to propose the idea of declaring the Jabal Rihane a protected area. Since he is from Mlikh village where he was born and spent his childhood, Dr. Abouzayd showed a constant tendency to protect its environment on the basis of a scientific biodiversity background and cooperation with its inhabitants as well as the local communities of its surroundings. Accordingly, he asked me if I was willing to conduct preliminary field studies in Jarjou’a, Loueizeh, Mlikh, Kfarhouneh, Aramta and Rihane villages similar o what I had previously done, in cooperation with a team of scientists, in five protected areas. One of them (Al-Chouf Cedar Reserve) is in the proximity of Jabal Rihane. As my wife and I often used to conduct wildlife field studies all over Lebanon, we welcomed Dr. Abouzayd’s idea. The following day, we prospected these areas that had not been accessed by us for the last thirty years. Continuous records in these villages continued over the last two years, often twice monthly, and once a week during spring season. |
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