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Bahati, with one of her beloved tires. (Ramat Gan Safari)
May 5, 2026, 3:26 pm
Ramat Gan Safari bids farewell to Bahati, iconic 65-year-old elephant
One of the oldest recorded female African elephants in the world, she bore five calves and boasts a lineage of 52 elephants across European zoos
By Sue Surkes
Dried up fishponds in Emek Maayanot, April 2026 (Courtesy)
April 19, 2026, 4:38 pm
Green in the valley: Israel’s abandoned fishponds are turning into a solar goldmine
In a pathbreaking deal, a project in northern Israel will generate clean energy, restore natural habitats, and share profits between local kibbutzim and the city of Beit She’an
By Aviv Lavie
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
In this undated picture, Yaniv Levy (right), Director of the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center, in Yannai, central Israel, checks the health of a loggerhead sea turtle, helped by staff member Guy Ivgy. (Erez Ehrlichman, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
January 24, 2026, 9:07 am
Marking a global first, Israel’s new Sea Turtle Rescue Center comes out of its shell
Complex with world’s only breeding group to open next month with guided tours that will showcase researchers’ efforts to stave off the animals’ extinction
By Sue Surkes
Mountain gazelles seen near blossoming almond trees. (Nimrod Lahav, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
December 12, 2025, 5:29 am
Wildlife smuggling, poison, rabies rise in 2025, alongside uptick in nature visits
In annual review, Israel Nature and Parks Authority says public returning to reserves, parks, after October 7, 2023, but calls for better management after 15 hikers die
By Sue Surkes
Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba off the shores of Eilat in southern Israel. (Prof. Maoz Fine)
September 18, 2025, 11:07 am
New research confirms Eilat corals’ remarkable resilience to rising temperatures
But experts warn they may be reaching their limits, call for regional conservation policies
By Sue Surkes
The Andean (spectacled) bear, photographed here in Peru, roams the Putumayo Amazon in Colombia, part of which TiME is trying to purchase this year. (BluesyPete, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
August 24, 2025, 4:55 pm
Israeli crowdfunding NGO’s unique model gives donors a say in saving global biodiversity
Over past 10 years, This is My Earth has bought 13 square kilometers of land in biodiversity hotspots under threat, saying every dollar donated yields 200-fold returns
By Sue Surkes
The carcasses of 335 black kites at Moshav Patish in southern Israel, after a mass poisoning event apparently caused by an approved pesticide leaching into puddles caused by irrigation, near Moshav Patish, southern Israel, February 1, 2025. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
February 2, 2025, 8:04 pm
335 black kites, greater spotted eagle found dead after being poisoned in Negev
Mass mortality near Moshav Patish in southern Israel apparently caused by approved pesticide; nature authority chief scientist pans state for regulatory failure
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 employee from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority inspects a burned tree following a rocket attack from Lebanon at the Tel Dan nature reserve in northern Israel on November 4, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 15, 2024, 12:55 pm
Hezbollah bombardments take heavy toll on nature in northern Israel
Despite 70% drop in bird migration since beginning of war with Lebanese terror group, ornithologist says winged visitors likely to gradually return once hostilities end
By AFP and ToI Staff
A six-legged deer with a rare genetic defect was spotted in southern Israel in a photo released on April 8, 2024. (Society for Protection of Nature in Israel)
April 8, 2024, 2:34 pm
Six-legged gazelle born with rare genetic defect spotted in Israel’s south
Sighting marks first time the polymelia disorder has been seen in the endangered Israeli mountain gazelle, of which there are fewer than 5,000 in the wild
By ToI Staff
A fabric showing the insignia of the Israel Police found in rubble from the Sderot police station that was moved into a nature reserve north of the city, February 2024 (Courtesy)
February 11, 2024, 11:35 am
Wreckage of Sderot police station destroyed on Oct. 7 found dumped in nature reserve
Order was given to demolish police station after it was overrun by terrorists; police equipment found abandoned in wilderness as part of growing wave of construction waste crimes
By Aviv Lavie
People visit blooming lupine flowers on Mitzpetel, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
August 9, 2023, 1:24 am
State freezes plan to build police station on beloved Jerusalem hill
Responding to petition by locals opposed to building station on site known for springtime carpets of blue lupines, authorities tell court they’re reviewing alternative locations
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a griffon vulture (Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0/ Pierre Dalous)
March 29, 2023, 9:20 pm
Nature authority presses for millions more to protect threatened vultures
Environment Ministry asked to fund NIS 20 million yearly to remove poison-laced carcasses put out by farmers and accidentally consumed by the birds
By Sue Surkes
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