Israel is rehabbing its softshell turtle population
One evening in May, the Kishon River Authority received an urgent call about a softshell turtle apparently hit by a vehicle near the Haifa oil refineries. The 43-mile-long Kishon River empties into Haifa Bay.
After she receives a clean bill of health, she will join hundreds of other softshell turtles that have either found their way to the Kishon River in the past 15 years or have been brought there from other parts of Israel.
Yonatan Shavit, head of the environmental department of the Kishon River Authority, explains that softshell turtles are an endangered species. They lived in the Kishon at one point in time, but as the river became polluted they left and were found only in the Alexander River that flows into the Mediterranean north of Netanya.
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Photo from Yonatan Shavit/Kishon River Authority.
