Biodiversity

estore the lost historic animals of Israel The ancient land of Israel has weathered centuries of metaphoric changes. This small country, about the size of Rhode Island, has seen human negligence towards its only permanent territorial dwellers destroy and eradicate them. The location, aspect, and climate of Israel has enabled it to play host to the amount of varied flora and fauna whole continents normally support. Israel lies at the crossroads to three major land …

…wildlife specialists from Israel, the US and Taiwan delivered 8 scimitar-horned Oryx (a close relative to the Arabian White Oryx) from the Hai Bar reserve in the Negev to Guembeul Fauna reserve in Senegal.7 This Oryx, once numbered in the millions in Saharan Africa had until recently become completely extinct. Similar projects are beginning to have success in many other parts of the world where, like in Israel, extinction of indigenous species is a critical problem.