Stop Terrorizing the Nature _ illegal rock carry مقلع الصخور غير الشرعية في لبنان

Stop Nature Terror

Lebanese nature is one of the best aspects of what makes Lebanon a truly beautiful country. If we don't do anything to preserve out nature, it will be just another wasteland. 

In fact change is so fast, humans can landscape an entire mountains in weeks extracting all that rock. For many months illegal carries have been stopped from working then again they restarted... Many can't do anything about it because they think that their action will take them nowhere and the project that started will reach its ultimate goal of extracting every gram of rock, cutting the last tree and killing what is left of the precious Lebanese fauna.

Well I'm not one of those and when something bad happens in my backyard I wanna raise against it... no matter what the cost is

Let's start by the destruction (click for larger view)

I come from a village  named Tamnine El faouqa  تمنين الفوقى

This little town holds about 3000 people. Main products are cherry, almond, fig, and grapes production. you can' believe hoe delicious they are here they are :

delicious cherry

delicious grapes 

delicious fig

Those trees are scattered all around on vast areas.

Temnine is at almost 1000 meters above sea level and is half mountainous. These mountains don't contain wild trees like Lebanese cedars but most of them are of cherry and almond. 

Still with all the *hunters* around there's practically no live animal left and that is sad. My father is one of the last real hunter, he hunts only adults and we eat them afterwards. He goes oldschool, travels kilometers for hours without using radio tracks and speakers to lure the birds in..that is practical genocide for birds, hopefully they are learning this pattern so they can avoid those crazy men.

Here's my dad with his hunting dog

After this quick introduction of my town I wanna raise the problem of the rock quarries (مقلع الصخور) in Lebanon. This business is chewing vast amount of landscapes killing all the living with it whether it has wings, legs or with green leaves.

As I can't have impact on all of Lebanese area, I wanna raise against of what is happening in my own backyard, in our own mountains. This landscape never changed for hundreds of years until the man came and poked his dirty hands in the land that raised him at the first place. When I was a kid I used to play and have fun around that area...  I still do but I take photos of each amazing day I spend there

It started approx 2 years ago way up in the mountains in some remote places in the upper mountains where it is hard to reach on foot.
- A couple of months ago the sites reached different zones easily visible from the valley.
-the men working there are private contractors mainly from zahle, they pay the locals to use the land for excavations. The worst part is that the municipality is in with them, they take 60$ for a load of truck "gemrouk". Note that municipality is also controlled by hezbollah.

cracks of evil are spreading fast disfiguring the hole mountain, when I see this from far away when I go up to the mountain I GET FUCKIN ANGRY

they leave the excavators unattended because they know that people wont poke there noses. well I poked even my lens 

I had only minutes before they came. I would have got real problems because of my camera. Now I hope they will get the PROBLEMS

As you can see for yourself, the situation is out of control and they will keep doing this until the authorities stop them. My camera, it doesn't know how to lie. It only shows you what's put right in front of it.
SO what you think ? isn't time to fight for some kind of future here ? I wanna see the nature fight back but it can't do anything if don't have its back

So please help me, share this post, share an illegal quarry near you, organize yourselves and lets get out there and fight for our right ! they don't own the mountain.. WE ALL BELONG TO IT