Nature and Parks Authority

Animal rights organization urges Nature and Parks Authority to cease shooting of stray dogs

According to data obtained by Let the Animals Live, the Nature and Parks Authority killed approximately 1,300 stray dogs in 2025, an increase from the 794 killed in 2024.

Stray dogs in Israel
A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius.

Sperm whale found dead on Israeli beach near Gaza border, cause of death unknown

A rainbow is seen over the Hula Nature Reserve in northern Israel following a winter rain, January 13, 2026.

Thousands go hiking in Israel as fallout from severe weather raises flood risk

Itamar Shlesinger.

Itamar Shlesinger's remains found after two years near Ein Hod in northern Israel


A total of 140,000 Israelis visit nature reserves over the weekend as weather warms

The parks held various educational activities for guests to learn more about the flora and fauna they held. 

 YEHUDIYA Nature Reserve.

Lion cub found being held illegally in center of Israel

Border Police detectives worked to find the cub after videos of it in various locations were posted on social media in the last few weeks.

 Abu Malek the lion cub is found in an apartment in the center of Israel.

Colorado bear takes 400 selfies with wildlife camera in one night

A black bear has amused experts with 400 selfies, using a motion-detection camera.

 Bear 480, Otis, after several months of packing on the pounds.

MK Moshe Gafni proposes law to segregate Israel's nature reserves

A bill put forward by the UTJ MK could see Israel's nature reserves become segregated by gender for at least 15% of their operational hours.

 Head of the Finance committee MK Moshe Gafni leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2023.

The North African Ostrich makes a comeback from near extinction

This sub-species of ostrich, also called 'red-necked ostrich', almost went extinct in the wild but was recently reintroduced in Israel.

Ostriches look at an egg inside an enclosure at an ostrich farm near the village of Kozishche, some 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Minsk, October 6, 2011.

No swimming: Sharks spotted near Hadera power plant

The sharks are spotted in the Hadera area every year between November and April.

 Sharks off the coast of Hadera, October 2022

How the court kept Israel's national parks open for Sukkot

In today’s complex global economy, alternative settlement methods for collective disputes must be developed so that a strike is the last option.

 A girl cools off in the fountain of Teddy Park, developed by the Jerusalem Foundation in memory of the city’s long-serving mayor, Teddy Kollek.

Conservation agencies hold educational seminars at nature reserves

Government organizations will send staff members to Ein Hardalit in Nahal Kziv, Beit Yanai National Park, the Paratroopers' Grove near Palmachim and the Einot Tzukim nature reserve.

Israeli government agencies host Sukkot events to promote cleanliness and personal responsibility toward the environment.

Huge hordes of jellyfish spotted swarming around Haifa

Video showed untold thousands of jellyfish dotting the waters around Haifa as far as the eye can see.

 A huge swarm of jellyfish is seen as far as the eye can see in the Haifa Bay off the coast of Israel, on July 20, 2022.

Israel to fund NIS 4 million restoration of burned Tel Gezer archaeological site

Large areas of Tel Gezer were burned by fire which spread from agricultural areas of the nearby moshav Beit Uziel earlier in July.

 Hundreds of dunams of the Tel Gezer National Park were destroyed by a fire started by a pruning fire at a neighboring moshav.