Endangered animals

Nature conservation, by definition, has no positive side. It is loss management. Prof. Dror Balana. Image courtesy of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority

"We try to preserve as much as possible, so that in the future there will be something to bequeath to those who come after us."

Prof. Dror Halana talks about lizards, wars, oil disasters, nature conservation in general, and his love for the desert. An interview with the incoming Chief Scientist of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority about the challenges of the role
The eastern lowland gorilla. Endangered. Source: Hans De Bisschop / flickr.

A world is disappearing

Eretz Israeli deer in the Cedar Valley in Jerusalem. Credit nadavnka from Wikipedia

About Gazelles and authorities who are even more scared of them

Barbary lion (scientific name: Panthera leo leo) is the largest subspecies of the lion. The Barbary lion is extinct in the wild and in fact for many years it was believed that this subspecies was extinct from the world, however several lions of this subspecies have been identified in various zoos and circuses.

Extinct plants and mammals

The Egyptian tortoise

Conservation of the Mediterranean basin

An illustration of a disappointed and grumpy chimpanzee from Darwin's book - The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

Eaten to Perdition (Tour Notes)

A male frog of the species Dendropsophus_microcephalus when called. From Wikipedia

An exercise in raising toads and the evolutionary lesson

Minke whale (endangered) hunted in Iceland. Source - Greenpeace

whale hunter

The tiger mosquito = Asian tiger = Aedes albopictus

Mosquitoes and birds versus sprays

Freeze drying: In a typical state diagram, the gas-liquid boundary connects the triple point of aggregation to the critical temperature point. Freeze drying (blue arrow) causes the system to bypass the point of the three aggregation modes, and prevents the direct transition from liquid to gas that occurs in normal drying (green arrow).

From the barn in Sejra to Noah's ark in the desert

A giant panda in a zoo in China. Photo: from Wikipedia

Protection from predators