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.
