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The reptiles of Israel live in environments ranging from the Negev Desert to the Red Sea, from the Jordan River to the Judaean Mountains. The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature :
A Nubian ibex in the Negev desert An Arabian oryx in the Yotvata wildlife reserve Fin whale in distress swims off national park of Caesarea Maritima Short-beaked common dolphins bow-riding off Ashdod. Israel contains a variety of mammals due to its geographical and climatic diversity. For many of the mammals, Israel is the border of their ...
The Desert climate zone, which is the largest climate zone of Israel and Palestine, covers the country's southern half as the Negev, while the Judean Desert extends to the Dead Sea region through the West Bank and into the southern Jordan Valley. Rainfall is as low as 32 mm per year in the southernmost tip of Palestine/Israel in the Arabah ...
Torgos tracheliotos negevensis Arabian giant vulture in Saudi Arabia Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Genus: Torgos Species: T. tracheliotos Subspecies: T. t. negevensis Trinomial name Torgos tracheliotos negevensis Bruun, Mendelssohn & Bull, 1981 Torgos tracheliotos negevensis, the Arabian ...
Southern District: the Negev: Masada National Park: Southern District: Judean Desert and the Dead Sea: Mount Carmel National Park: Northern District: Mount Carmel: Ramon Park at Makhtesh Ramon (nature reserve with archaeological sites) Southern District: the Negev: Ben-Gurion's Tomb National Park at Midreshet Ben-Gurion near Sde Boker [9]
The Yotvata Hai-Bar is the desert counterpart of the Carmel Hai-Bar Nature Reserve which operates in the country's Northern Mediterranean forest. [ 1 ] Endangered and locally extinct animals mentioned in the Bible are bred here for possible reintroduction to the Negev desert .
National animals of the Levant: Arabian oryx (Jordan), mountain gazelle and hoopoe (), striped hyena (Lebanon), Palestine sunbird (Palestine), and saker falcon (Syria). The wildlife of the Levant encompasses all types of wild plants and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fresh and saltwater fish, and invertebrates, that inhabit the region historically known as the Levant ...
About five individuals were thought to survive in the Judaean Desert as of 2005. [21] The last wild leopard in the Negev desert was sighted near Sde Boker in 2007, which was in a poor and weak shape; and the last leopard in the northern Arabah Valley was sighted in 2010–11. [22] In Jordan, the last confirmed sighting of a leopard dates to ...