Nature and Parks Authority

The new attraction where you can get up close to sea turtles

The Nature and Parks Authority opens its new NIS 30M Sea Turtle Rescue Center at Nahal Alexander, featuring a hospital, visitor experience, and breeding program.

Sea Turtle Rescue Center.
Alongside its toxicity, the oil created a hard, impermeable layer on the ground. The Avrona oil spill disaster.

12 years after the oil spill: What is happening in the Avrona Nature Reserve now?

(Left) Israeli woman is seen in Jericho, in Area A, before being escorted back to sovreign Israel by security forces on August 18. (Right) A monkey is seen in a Jericho home before being rescued by Israeli security forces on August 17.

Authorities rescue Israeli shoppers, seize illegal monkey from residence in Jericho, West Bank

The British waterworks at Yarkon National Park.

After decades in darkness: Tel Afek's historic underground waterworks opens to public


A symbol of nature: Israel files landmark NIS 594K lawsuit for illegal deer hunting

The Nature and Parks Authority filed a 594,000 NIS lawsuit against Jamal Haj for hunting a protected Israeli deer species.

Ofer and his mother in the valley of the deer

Israeli arrested for smuggling, trafficking protected and endangered animals

Border Police and Nature and Parks Authority inspectors arrested a suspect in smuggling and trafficking endangered aquatic species.

 Softshell Chinese turtle and other endangered species seen in a photo taken June 18, 2024

Saving the Israeli vulture: A lifeline for the biblical bird of prey

Until the 1950s, there were still an estimated 1,000 pairs of vultures in Israel. Today, there are fewer than 200 such birds. 

 THE GRIFFON VULTURE in flight.

Blossoms of hope: The healing power of Israel's flowers

This year, as conflict rages in Gaza, missiles are launched from Lebanon into Israel’s North, and the country is living in a state of collective trauma, a longing for nature is especially pronounced.

 Picturesque Lupine Hill in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood is adorned with thousands of vibrant purple flowers.

Eagle and newly-hatched nestling found dead, authorities suspect poisoning

Israeli eagles face tragedy: Nestling and adult eagles lost in southern Israel due to lack of sanitation. Conservation efforts in jeopardy.

 NPA holding a dead 18 years old eagle

Eagles in Nahal Og take care of eggs in 'shifts' to prepare for hatching

Nature and Parks Authority inspector Assaf Shlomo Mizrahi has been closely monitoring a pair of bald eagles, an endangered species in Israel.

 Two eagles pass off responsibilities for incubating their chicks.

White-tailed eagles saved from Israel's North amid Hezbollah rockets

The Nature and Parks Authority transferred a pair of Haliaeetus albicilla from the Hai-Bar Carmel Nature Reserve to the Ramat Gan Safari.


Israeli teen finds 1,700-year-old bronze ring in ruins of Greek city

An Israeli teenager found an ancient Hellenistic ring while visiting a national park in the Golan Heights.

 View of the Hippos archaeological site at Sussita National Park in the Golan Heights, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, August 1, 2022.

Whale spotted off Israel's coast, washes ashore lifeless hours later

This is the seventh whale in recent years to have washed up dead on Israel's shorelines.

 Large, humpback whale spotted off the coast of Israel, August 2023

Israel intercepts attempted smuggling of dozens of exotic birds

Exotic animals can pose a severe threat to the environment in the event that they escape their captivity.

 The birds were siezed by the Parks and Nature Authority.