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Iris atrofusca Orchis israelitica Tamarix aphylla Anacamptis israelitica. List of endemic flora of Israel refers to flowers, plants and trees endemic to Israel.There are 2,867 known species of plants.
The forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This article is a list of these forests . In the 19th century and up to World War I , the Ottoman Empire cleared the land of Israel of its natural reserves of pine and oak trees, in order to build railways across the ...
Studies conducted in Yatir forest under the direction of Prof. Dan Yakir of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with the Desert Research Institute at Sde Boker, have shown that the trees function as a trap for carbon in the air. [2] [3] Shade provided by trees planted in the desert also reduces evaporation of the sparse rainfall ...
The region is home to a variety of plants and animals; at least 47,000 living species have been identified, with another 4,000 assumed to exist. At least 116 mammal species are native to Palestine/Israel, as well as 511 bird species, 97 reptile species, and 7 amphibian species. There are also an estimated 2,780 plant species.
Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority, The National Herbarium of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and ROTEM - Israel plant information center. 1999. Shmida, Avi, MAPA's dictionary of plants and flowers in Israel, MAPA publishers, 2005 (Hebrew). Flora of Israel Online, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, retrieved October 2008.
In the early years of the state, Jewish National Fund planted thousands of trees along the western edge of Jerusalem, creating a green belt. [1] The first tree of the Jerusalem Forest was planted in 1956 by the second President of Israel, Itzhak Ben-Zvi. At its peak, the area of the forest covered 4,700 dunams (470 hectares).
Israel contains a variety of mammals due to its geographical and climatic diversity. For many of the mammals, Israel is the border of their territory. The territories of species which originate in the Palearctic generally stop at the deserts and those who originate from the African deserts usually stop at the Mediterranean coasts.
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