 | | | "There is nothing more calming and peaceful than planting a tree" 5,300 dunam of trees were burned last year in 609 forest fires. 11 forest-firefighting trucks will be joining KKL-JNF soon. The Yair Research & Development Station in the Central Arava hosted an open day that featured an amazing agricultural fair. |
| | | Potsdam had decided to express the bond between the State of Brandenburg and the State of Israel by means of music and song. They expressed a deep sense of satisfaction with their visit and as one of them put it: "In my previous three visits to Israel, I didn't see even a quarter of what I saw with this delegation." For over a week, the group visited KKL-JNF projects and sites through Israel including the Technion, Shuni Park, Ilan Halimi Forest, the Besor R&D; station and reservoirs and the Halutziyot villages. |
| | | British Park is a model of sustainable development, which means emphasizing the social-ecological aspects of development and planning for coming generations. Watching the cranes is indeed a magnificent sight but besides the food placed for them in the lake area, they also eat seeds in nearby fields and cause a great deal of damage to local agriculture. Jerusalem Forest, which was planted in 1956, today covers an area of around 1,200 dunam (about 300 acres). In the past it sprawled over 4,500 dunam (about 1,125 acres), but massive local development over the years has reduced its size. |
| | | A delegation of five scientists from Australia visisted Israel on a ten-day, fact-finding mission sponsored by the JNF Environmental Scholarship Fund (JNFESF). KKL-JNF inaugurated a new reservoir, which will store the effluents of the city of Acco and local villages. KKL-JNF has built dozens of reservoirs, most of them for recycled wastewater. |
| | | The special climbing method used today for collecting seeds for KKL-JNF was devised with the help of some of the most highly skilled professional climbers. This research and others at the Desert Research Institute of Ben-Gurion University spearhead the Green focus that has become the target of KKL-JNF activity recently. |
| | | The mission concluded the visit to Israel and KKL-JNF sites with an eye-opening morning tour of the Eilat Bird-watching Park. Open Day in the Arava was held this year for the first time at the Yair Agricultural Research Station in Hatzeva. The event lasted two days and was preceded by a modest publicity campaign. Yatir Forest is today the focus of unique scientific research into methods of combating desertification. |
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