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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

Israel Nature and Parks Authority

Fires burn next to the northern city of Kiryat Shmona on June 3, 2024, following rocket and drone attacks from nearby Lebanon. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
December 18, 2024, 11:49 pm
Agency says NIS 100 million needed to rehabilitate nature in northern Israel after war
Israel Nature and Parks Authority concludes difficult year, with 374,000 dunams burned, one staff member killed fighting in Gaza, one in Hamas captivity
By Sue Surkes
Israel's first National Marine Park at Caesarea in northern Israel, announced by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and the Planning Administration, on November 25, 2024. (Guy Levian, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
November 26, 2024, 2:12 pm
Israel dives into offshore conservation with first National Marine Park
Area off Caesarea joins large extension to the Evtach Marine Reserve in waters between Ashkelon and Ashdod, plus projects in Hadera and additional land in the Ramon Crater
By Sue Surkes
An undated picture showing a coral that underwent bleaching in the Gulf of Eilat earlier this year. (Omri Omessi/ Assaf Zvuloni, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
November 18, 2024, 8:36 pm
First cases of coral bleaching reported in Gulf of Eilat
Worrying finding appears to upend long-held assumption that corals in the area are unusually resistant to rising seawater temperatures
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
Smoke rises from a fire which broke out from missiles fired from Lebanon at a forest outside the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 24, 2024. (David Cohen/ Flash90)
October 16, 2024, 7:14 am
Head out to nature, or stay near a bomb shelter? The Israeli Sukkot dilemma
As the Jewish state’s ultimate hiking holiday approaches, millions debate whether to get fresh air and risk being caught by enemy rockets – as this writer did
By Aviv Lavie
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
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