Israel's Samar sand dunes — and the unique animal species that live there — may be destroyed, unless we act now.
(Photo courtesy of Taal Goldman of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies)
NEW YORK (Oct. 12, 2011) — The bulldozers and dump trucks are getting ready. Without intervention, they will begin carting away one of Israel’s unique ecosystems, the Samar sand dunes, home to species that live nowhere else on the planet. And soon, at the government’s initiation, the sands of Samar in Israel’s Arava ...