Four additional nature reserves have been declared in Israel, Interior Minister Avraham Poraz announced yesterday. The four are:
* Susita on the western slopes of the Golan Heights, just east of the Kinneret Sea. Some 1,350 acres, the area contains a unique combination of wild and Mediterranean growth, and is home to deer, wolves, jackals, and more.
* A small, 18-acre area in the Nachal Sorek channel, between Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. It was "traded" for a smaller area that had been declared a nature reserve in the past, but is now being used to expand the community of Ramat Raziel.
* Avukah in the Beit She'an Valley - a swampy area that becomes filled in the rainy season and dries up in the summer, causing a significant increase in the land's salinity and growths found in such areas.
* Horesh Adulam, between northern Judea (Gush Etzion) and Kiryat Gat. The new reserve represents an expansion of an existing nature reserve, and contains carob trees, oak trees, burial caves, and more.
* Susita on the western slopes of the Golan Heights, just east of the Kinneret Sea. Some 1,350 acres, the area contains a unique combination of wild and Mediterranean growth, and is home to deer, wolves, jackals, and more.
* A small, 18-acre area in the Nachal Sorek channel, between Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. It was "traded" for a smaller area that had been declared a nature reserve in the past, but is now being used to expand the community of Ramat Raziel.
* Avukah in the Beit She'an Valley - a swampy area that becomes filled in the rainy season and dries up in the summer, causing a significant increase in the land's salinity and growths found in such areas.
* Horesh Adulam, between northern Judea (Gush Etzion) and Kiryat Gat. The new reserve represents an expansion of an existing nature reserve, and contains carob trees, oak trees, burial caves, and more.