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Nature Conservation

Prof. Mendelssohn, one of the founders of nature conservation in Israel, established in the Zoological Garden a core collection for the breeding of endangered species, mainly raptors such as the lappet-faced vulture, griffon vulture, white-tailed eagle and various species of falcons.

Today the Zoological Garden serves, in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and the Nature Reserves Authority, as a center for conservation-related activity. Researchers investigate the reproductive strategies of many species, with the aim of maintaining a captive-breeding nucleus and releasing back to nature, when possible, the offspring born in the zoo.


After over 20 years of such conservation work, several of these projects are starting to bear fruit: the white-tailed eagle can be seen once more in the Hula Valley, while the lanner falcon and the griffon vulture are now back in the skies over the Carmel mountains.