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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Israel Nature and Parks Authority

An undated photo of a pair of eco-toilets at the IDF Nitzanim training base in southern Israel. (Guy Saly, Nature Defense Force)
October 13, 2024, 10:20 am
Army cleans up its act with eco-toilets
Following pilot project, officer in charge of environmental protection calls for wide adoption of eco-toilets where permanent facilities needed in open areas
By Sue Surkes
An aging vulture wearing a GPS radio transmitter. (Tovale Solomon)
September 3, 2024, 11:25 am
While young vultures gad about, older ones prefer to stay home – study
Tel Aviv University research shows that aging vultures become less sociable
By Sue Surkes
A plastic bottle cap is removed from the throat of a long-legged buzzard at the Ein Prat Nature Reserve, northeast of Jerusalem, August 6, 2024. (Itamar Telkar)
August 7, 2024, 3:54 pm
Ranger saves life of buzzard with bottle cap stuck in throat
Bird lands next to nature reserve inspector, recovers quickly once the cap is removed; Nature and Parks Authority: ‘Trash harms wildlife, take it home’
By Sue Surkes
A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky. (Ben Netanel/Israel Space Agency)
July 30, 2024, 6:52 pm
Annual meteor shower to dazzle skygazers August 9-13
Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Space Agency to team up and stage events across the country, but mainly in the south where light pollution is low
By Sue Surkes
An Israeli flag flutters next to a fire burning in an area near the border with Lebanon, in Safed, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
July 4, 2024, 5:11 pm
Fires have become the most visible sign of the conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border
Hezbollah attacks have torched 21,500 acres in northern Israel, and IDF strikes have burned 10,000 acres in Lebanon; security concerns often hamper crucial firefighting efforts
By AP and ToI Staff
A sinkhole near Kibbutz Ein Gedi in southern Israel, from which a Nubian ibex was rescued, June 2024. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
June 13, 2024, 3:12 pm
Nubian ibex rescued from 10-meter-deep sinkhole
10-year-old animal pulled to safety in two-hour rescue operation
By Sue Surkes
View of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, near the northern town of Katzrin, June 2, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90
June 3, 2024, 4:06 pm
Hezbollah rockets spark fires burning 10,000 dunams of open areas in north
Nature and Parks Authority official says it will take years for local flora to repair itself after Sunday blaze destroyed parts of Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
A swallowtail butterfly on a Salvia viridis plant. (Avner Rinot, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
May 22, 2024, 4:56 pm
World Biodiversity Day report: Israel’s butterflies, birds, reptiles in serious decline
Israel’s habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation of natural resources and rising temperatures blamed in 2023 State of Nature review
By Sue Surkes
An illustrative photo of a gray wolf (Carlos Delgado/Wikimedia Commons)
April 14, 2024, 5:57 pm
‘We woke up to her screaming’: Wolf drags girl from tent in Negev campsite
Father drives animal away; 9-year-old taken to Beersheba hospital for treatment; Israel Nature and Parks Authority closes facility as rangers scour area
By ToI Staff
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
The body of a griffon vulture in its cliffside nest in the Judean Desert in southern Israel March 2024. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
March 10, 2024, 6:07 pm
Three endangered griffon vultures found dead in southern Israel, poison suspected
Parents and chick thought to have eaten carcass treated with anti-inflammatory drug; fourth bird from struggling population dies after hitting electric line
By Sue Surkes
Nothing grows along a watercourse at Evrona Nature Reserve in southern Israel, where soil was contaminated by a 2014 leak of crude oil (see the dark patches beneath the soil crust), February 14, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2024, 4:37 pm
Nature authority to remove 30,000 cubic meters of oil-soaked soil at southern reserve
Move follows years of post-spill research and failure of other methods to draw out crude oil that flooded out of broken pipe into Evrona Nature Reserve near Eilat in 2014
By Sue Surkes
A dead crane in a flooded field in the Hula Valley. (Nadav Israeli, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
February 15, 2024, 7:29 pm
As avian flu rises in Hula Valley cranes, authorities spar over who collects carcasses
While Agriculture Ministry, Nature and Parks Authority argue, farmers see more crane corpses in fields; Hula reserve closed; fears that virus could spiral into epidemic, as in 2021
By Sue Surkes
Feral dogs from the Gaza Strip seen near to Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel. (Nimrod Cohen)
February 13, 2024, 8:10 pm
Feral dogs from Gaza enter Israel, compounding nature authority’s war woes
Ending 2023 with NIS 150 million deficit, Israel Nature and Parks Authority has one worker in Hamas captivity, 310 serving in the IDF reserves, 118 evacuated from their homes
By Sue Surkes
An Indian crested porcupine. (Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
February 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
Taibe man given 27 months behind bars for illegally hunting porcupines
Israel Nature and Parks Authority, which has long campaigned for stiffer sentences for animal abuse, welcomes judgment by Kfar Saba court, which also fined man NIS 25,000
By Sue Surkes
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