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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

endangered species

An endangered Gilboa iris blooms on Mount Barkan, northern Israel, in March 2024. (Times of Israel)
April 9, 2024, 3:49 pm
Abundant rainfall helps endangered Gilboa iris spring back
After drastic decline 15 years ago, count of iconic flower shows significant increase
By Sue Surkes
Authorities say they are probing the mysterious deaths in recent days of about 1,000 endangered seagull chicks in northern Israel, June 28, 2023 (Yosef Chiat/Atlit Gull Project)
June 30, 2023, 11:10 am
Authorities probing mystery deaths of endangered chicks at nesting colony
Nature groups warn the deaths of some 1,000 young terns ‘means the elimination of the nesting season’ for 2 species at risk of local extinction
By ToI Staff
Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal, rests on the beach in Tel Aviv, May 2023. (Yehiel Lamesh)
May 18, 2023, 1:19 am
Monk seal Yulia seems to swim off after making splash with rare stop on Jaffa beach
Many hoping for return of marine sensation, who seemingly slithered into the water for good Tuesday, but others admit Israel probably a poor home for the endangered creature anyway
By Deborah Danan
A rare Mediterranean monk seal, later named Yulia, resting on a beach in central Israel, May 13, 2023. (Guy Levian/Nature and Parks Authority)
May 13, 2023, 4:43 pm
In first, endangered seal snoozes on central Israeli shore
Nature and Park Authority volunteers arrive to guard rare Mediterranean Monk Seal, urge public to keep distance until she returns to sea
By Michael Horovitz
Palestinian fishermen slaughter a manta ray on the beach of Gaza City, March 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
March 14, 2023, 5:56 am
Gaza fishermen celebrate catching dozens of endangered manta rays
Rare fish weighing up to 660 pounds flock to Mediterranean waters each spring, are sold for meat in Palestinian enclave
By AFP and ToI Staff
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
A griffon vulture is released into the wild in the Negev highlands in southern Israel, after being marked and fitted with a radio transmitter. (Yuval Dax, INPA)
October 4, 2022, 12:11 pm
Conservationists release 64 vultures equipped with radio transmitters
Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes Jewish new year will be better than last, when 12 of the endangered birds were poisoned
By Sue Surkes
This Monday, May 26, 2014, photo shows a 7-year-old male Asiatic Cheetah, named 'Koushki,' at the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge in Jajarm, northeastern Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 1, 2022, 1:05 pm
First birth of an Asiatic cheetah in captivity takes place in Iran
Only a dozen of the endangered breed of the world’s fastest land animal remain in Islamic Republic, down from an estimated 100 in 2010
By AFP
A young koala looks through eucalyptus leaves in a zoo in Duisburg, Germany, on September 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
February 11, 2022, 5:33 pm
Koalas declared endangered in eastern Australia as disease, lost habitat take toll
Scientist warns move won’t keep the marsupials from ‘sliding toward extinction unless it’s accompanied by stronger laws and landholder incentives to protect their forest home’
By AP
A houbara bustard in flight. (Shmulik Ya'ari, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 27, 2021, 5:19 am
Israeli population of endangered dancing bird seen leveling off
Rangers count 400 nationwide, 246 of them in Negev Desert, but dangers still threaten rare fowl known for distinctive mating jig
By Sue Surkes
An artist's illustration of an ancient Moa bird being hunted by humans (From the book 'Extinct Monsters,' 1897)
August 11, 2021, 8:31 pm
Humans wiped out hundreds of bird species in last 50,000 years — Israeli study
Reviewing scientific literature, researchers find at least 400 species that disappeared around the world shortly after humans arrived on the scene
By ToI Staff
A griffon vulture. (Yosef Avgana, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 11, 2020, 5:32 pm
Israel’s griffon vulture population reaches eight-year high
Just over a year after eight of the birds were poisoned, the population still remains endangered and concentrated in just two areas of country, with natural reproduction slow
By Sue Surkes
A polar bear sits on the Hudson Bay fresh ice next to a hole in the ice and close to the shore waiting for a seal meal outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada, November 15, 2007. (Paul J. Richards/AFP)
July 20, 2020, 8:27 pm
Polar bears could be extinct by 2100 due to climate change, study warns
Scientists say rising temperatures are reducing the amount of time that polar bears can hunt for food: ‘Their habitat is literally melting’
By Marlowe HOOD
Still from a video showing dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea, April 2020. (Guy Lavian, Eviatar Ben Avi, Israel Nature and Parks Authority).
May 4, 2020, 4:27 pm
Dolphin pod treats marine inspectors to special escort
Around 20 of an estimated local population of 30 to 40 dolphins, endangered in the Mediterreanean Sea, accompany Israel Nature and Parks Authority patrol boat
By Sue Surkes
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that fruit bats are able to translate, to some extent, echo-acoustic information into 3D shapes (Courtesy)
December 14, 2019, 11:49 am
Environment Ministry extends protected status to hundreds of animals, plants
Freshwater fish added to list for first time; but ministry backtracks on pledge to shield Mediterranean tuna, grouper
By Sue Surkes
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