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Ricardus M. Haber

 

• Ecologist, conservationist, botanist, and plant author, known as the Father of the Environmental Movement in Lebanon.
  
  
• Founder in Lebanon of Friends of Nature on December 6, 1972, at the American University of Beirut.

• Ricardus M. Haber, in 1972 was a Junior of Biology and according to the Friends of Nature, was a fervent admirer of John Muir and his thought. A member of the Sierra Club, Ricardus decided to give his devotion to spreading awareness to the value of the nature of Lebanon in "an institutional module emulating the Sierra Club."

• Today, Dr. El-Haber is on the faculty of American University and is a leader in the Friends of Nature organization in Lebanon.
  
  
• For more information, see his biography on the Lebanon Friends of Nature website.

   

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