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The coral reef in Eilat

"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."

Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
January 16, 2025

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 coral reef in Eilat is in a very sad state

Avi Blizovsky
August 13, 2024
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This figure appears in the annual report of the National Monitoring Program of the Bay of Eilat for the year 2023 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection; The report indicates that the sea level continues to warm at a rate 2.5 times higher than the average

Artificial reefs protect the coral reefs in Eilat

Ben-Gurion University
March 1, 2024
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Researchers from Ben Gurion University followed divers in Eilat for 15 years and found that the placement of the artificial reef reduced the pressure of diving on the natural reef

The collapse of the coral reef in Eilat worsened because of the storm in 2020; Extinction of marine species and increase in sea temperature

Avi Blizovsky
August 3, 2022
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Alarming findings regarding the future of the Gulf of Eilat: the coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat is having trouble recovering from the damage of the 2020 winter storm, which hit the bay and caused the coral colonies in the reef to break and be covered with sand; Continued decrease in percentage