Wild Life in Israel
The Wild Life in Israel is a very beautiful, in this small country we can view in shortly distances ibex, felines, fox, wolfs, thousand of immigrants birds and exuberant landscapes of deserts, forests, plainness and snow. This photo is part of my personal wild life pictures and is one my favorite between animals photosIsrael Images by Miguel Nicolaevsky Judea 2008.
In the ancient times, and in the not so distant past Israel was home to many animal species which today are extinct in this region. Perhaps we humans are not so upset that predators like lions, bears, crocodiles and cheetahs no longer roam the Israeli countryside as they once did, but the disappearance of these formidable predators is part of a general decline in native species which also saw the local extinction of more docile local animals such as fallow and roe deer, Arabian oryx and the onager, a kind of wild ass.
Furthermore, with the extinction or drastic decline in top-level large predators, the surviving species they prey upon have increased in some areas with no way to curb them other than hunting by humans, the very act which has already wiped out so many native large animals.
While the local Asiatic lion seems to have been eradicated by the time of the Crusades, around the thirteenth century, most of the others became extinct in the Levant region between 70-120 years ago due to the widespread use of guns and later mechanised vehicles in hunting.
Part these animals, such as the native sub-species of ostrich and onager were completely eradicated, while others only became extinct in the immediate region (Israel and neighbouring countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon).
Read more about wiild life in Israel here:
http://www.geocities.com/jelbaum/haibar.html