News Headline
In Israel, Questions Are Raised about a Forest that Rises from the Desert
Source
Yale Environment 360
Publication Date
2019-09-30
Israel’s Yatir Forest has been hailed as a green refuge in the Negev that is helping fight climate change. But some Israeli ecologists now contend that it has wiped out important desert ecosystems and shows that forestation projects are not always an unalloyed environmental good.