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Mona Khalil looks at a turtle on the coast of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, August 12, 2002. (Jihad Seqlawi/AFP)
June 21, 2026, 12:37 pm
Renowned Lebanese turtle conservationist succumbs to wounds sustained in Israeli strike
Mona Khalil, 76, was the founder of a sea turtle sanctuary near Tyre; IDF says she wasn’t a target, but acknowledges carrying out strikes in the area after an evacuation warning
By ToI Staff and AFP
The new pygmy hippo at the Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin, northern Israel, on April 16, 2026 (Saguy Peretz)
April 16, 2026, 9:51 pm
Rare pygmy hippo arrives in Israel to launch breeding program
Female undergoing acclimatization at Hai Park in northern city of Kiryat Motzkin, which has built a special enclosure; male hippo set to arrive in September
By Sue Surkes
The Queen of Spain fritillary. (Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2026, 11:17 pm
A third of Israel’s 156 butterfly species threatened, with three already extinct
‘Preserving butterflies is not just about preserving beauty and color, but about the stability and health of ecosystems on which we all depend,’ says ecologist Dotan Rotem
By Sue Surkes
Buxton's jird. (Liad Cohen)
November 10, 2025, 9:10 pm
Conservation body asks Israel to protect rodent vulnerable to extinction
International Union for Conservation of Nature asks Israel Nature and Parks Authority to protect endemic Buxton’s jird in sandy area set for development in central Rishon Lezion
By Sue Surkes
Conservationists from the Israel Parks and Nature Authority release an endangered turtle into the Red Sea, October 31, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube,used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 1, 2024, 10:29 pm
Israeli conservationists release endangered hawksbill turtles into Red Sea
Three ‘critically endangered’ turtles, all females, were raised in an underwater observatory in Eilat, and finally reached maturity at more than twenty years old
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Volunteers make bricks from molds as part of the conservation work at Tel Gezer on July 6, 2023. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
July 16, 2023, 8:24 pm
Amateur archaeologists can help conserve the crumbling Tel Gezer, one brick at a time
Enthusiasts and those curious about archaeology are able to aid the Israel Antiquities Authority’s conservation work Thursdays in July using a 3,500-year-old brick-making technique
By Melanie Lidman
Dr. Aviad Scheinin, director of the Marine Apex Predator Lab at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station at the Haifa University Charny School of Marine Sciences, looks for marine mammals during the Israel-UK survey of Israel's economic waters, in Spring 2022. (Elad Aybes, Greenpeace Israel)
May 29, 2023, 8:14 pm
New findings on deep sea whales, dolphins prompt call to stop Israel’s search for gas
First extensive exploration of Israel’s deep-sea economic waters by Israeli-UK team identifies two species of threatened whales that are sensitive to underwater noise
By Sue Surkes
A European otter. (Ezra Haddad, INPA)
December 10, 2022, 11:23 pm
Israel’s griffon vultures, European otters in ‘serious decline,’ new report finds
But Nature and Parks Authority’s first long-term assessment on state of country’s mammals, birds and reptiles shows many other species stable or expanding
By Sue Surkes
Fish in the Sea of Galilee, thought to be Red garra, or 'tickling fish,' commonly used in beauty spas, are actually a different species of garra, according to new DNA research. (Dina Middin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
August 11, 2022, 7:07 pm
DNA reveals: ‘Nibbling fish’ in Sea of Galilee were misidentified for years
Genetic barcoding of fish in lake to aid future conservation suggests that species assumed to be Doctor fish, popular as tickly foot cleaners in beauty spas, is actually endangered
By Sue Surkes
American actor Zac Efron prepares pancakes using Kodiac Cakes mix next to a grizzly bear as part of a promotional video uploaded to his Instagram account on June 14, 2022. (Instagram)
August 8, 2022, 10:07 pm
PETA slams Zac Efron over pro-conservation ad featuring grizzly bear
Animal rights group criticizes US actor for starring in videos by pancake and waffle mix maker Kodiac Cakes: ‘Hypocritical to exploit one animal to potentially help another’
By Tobias Siegal
Great white pelicans at a water reservoir in the Hefer valley, in central Israel, on October 22, 2021. Pelicans stop off in Israel during their annual migration from the Balkans to Africa, where they enjoy a mild winter before returning to Europe. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 9, 2022, 2:02 pm
Israeli nature loses equivalent of a medium-sized city to development every year
Annual State of Nature report highlights negative consequences of galloping urbanization amid population growth, but notes increase in protected open space
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Itay Roffman (bottom right corner), co-director of the new Israeli branch of the Jane Goodall Institute, addresses the 50th annual conference of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, against the backdrop of an undated photo of him with Jane Goodall. Tel Aviv, July 7, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel))
July 7, 2022, 10:52 am
Primatologist Jane Goodall to set up conservation organization in Israel
Branch of global Jane Goodall Institute will focus on ecological corridors, wetland restoration and use of Bedouin knowledge to replant native species
By Sue Surkes
Telescopus hoogstraali, or Desert Tiger Snake, an endangered species of snake endemic to the Middle East. (Simon Jamison, Tel Aviv University)
June 5, 2022, 12:39 pm
One in every five species of reptiles worldwide is facing extinction, study finds
Covering over 10,000 species, study involving Israeli researchers is the most comprehensive of its kind to date; half of all turtles and crocodiles in danger of dying out
By Tobias Siegal
In this photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, a Dixie Valley toad sits atop grass in Dixie Valley, Nev., on April 6, 2009. The US Fish and Wildlife Service temporarily listed a rare northern Nevada toad as endangered on an emergency basis partly because of threats a geothermal plant in the works poses to its habitat in the only place its known to live in the world about 100 miles east of Reno. (Matt Maples/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP, File)
April 5, 2022, 5:59 am
Nevada toad declared endangered at site of Israeli-owned geothermal plant
Move to protect Dixie Valley toad at its only known habitat marks second time in 20 years that US Fish and Wildlife Service has listed a species as endangered on an emergency basis
By SCOTT SONNER
A turtle hatchling moves toward the sea from a nest protected within the Palmachim National Park on August 1, 2021. (Yaniv Cohen, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
March 10, 2022, 6:27 pm
Sea turtle nest tallies surging along Israel’s beaches, report finds
For second year in row, nature authority says number of hatching sites nearly double annual average of five years prior, attributing rise to fishing bans, more monitoring
By Sue Surkes
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