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A fire threatened the Hivai in the Lachish region, but he survived at the last minute
A large fire, which was caused in an IDF training area in the Lachish region, threatened to burn a tree on which a viper was nesting, feeding on snakes. Rapid actions by the inspectors of the Nature and Parks Authority saved the female who incubated an egg, which later returned
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Ziv Reinstein
Monday, 10 May 2021, 16:54 Updated: 19:11
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Hivai survived a fire in Givot Omer (Photo: Liad Cohen, RTG)
It is not only incendiary balloons from Gaza that cause severe wildfires.
This time it was the IDF, which as a result of training in the area near the Lachish region yesterday (Sunday), caused a severe fire in a training area where also nests - a hawk from the hawk family - that feeds mainly on snakes.
As a result of the fire, High heat, "Givot Gomer" nature reserve - the largest reserve in the central district with about 24,000 dunams, when the fire threatens a tree on which the zealot built the nest
, ignited
.
Liad Cohen, inspector of the Nature and Parks Authority, said that " HH (Brigade Training Base - ZAR) Paratroopers, which was only recently declared the Gomer Gomer Nature Reserve, where thousands of highly valuable dunams of a sub-school on the border of the Mediterranean forest.
As such, the reserve is a nesting site for a large variety of birds of prey, including snakes. "
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The fire area and the acacia tree on which the viper nested in the Omer hills (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Liad Cohen)
The largest nesting density in the world of the hawk - in the lowlands
Cohen relates that as the fire progressed rapidly toward the nest, he would observe the nest at every stage and saw the vulture (female) moving in the nest uncomfortably, with the smoke thickening around and the commotion of the fire engines. "Right at the last second, when she had no choice, she left the nest and circled above us at every stage of the firefighting effort," he adds.
"We immediately started a rapid defense operation under the command of Geffen Moshe, a firefighter and resident of the area, who was at the scene together with a volunteer from the Kiryat Gat fire station, and we created a buffer by initiating a fire around a tree within a reasonable radius and continued the fire," says Cohen. "After a while, when the firefighters finished the firefighting and the smoke calmed down, the indicator landed on a nearby buckthorn tree - where it waited a few minutes and scanned the area. When it noticed that everything was quiet and calm, it took off and landed elegantly again in the old nest and returned to incubate."
According to Major Geffen Moshe: "Following a large-scale fire that spread rapidly towards the nest, we were called by the target to carry out as many defensive actions as possible.
After a quick condition assessment, we decided to perform insulation of the wood to prevent the fire from reaching it.
As firefighters in a life-saving organization, saving lives and property is a supreme value for us.
It doesn't matter if it is a human or any other animal. "
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The viper in the nest before flying off (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Liad Cohen)
The peak of the nesting season
The hawk is a large raptor, with a wingspan of about two meters, which feeds mainly on snakes.
In the southern lowlands there is the largest nesting density in the world of the raptor.
"From the reports of the location of the fire, I understood that the veteran's nest was going to be burned," Cohen described.
"We have known the nest for over a decade, and every year the pair of vultures come to nest there at the end of the migratory season.
Cohen adds that this period is the peak of the nesting season, and the farmer incubates only one egg.
The indicator while fleeing the fire that approached the nest (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Liad Cohen)
Gomer Gomer Nature Reserve, including all areas of eastern Lachish, serve as a continuation of the continuous and important ecological corridor to the Negev.
"Large day predators, such as the eagle and the hawk heel, have chosen this area for nesting at an impressive density." These impressive birds are in fact a bio indicator of the condition of the area and the nesting density actually shows that the area is 'ecologically' healthy.
"Here, in fact, our main role as conservationists is to protect and preserve those creatures that do not have the ability to actually protect themselves from human
harm,
" says Cohen.
Apart from the many threats to birds but, such as electric shocks, nest looting and illegal hunting, the other threat is the many fires burst out in this area more than once. fires caused by them is military, negligence travelers, and arson against the backdrop of one kind or another.
"I hope that Ken will continue to be kept and Iigdl many generations of chickens that special, symbolizing the beauty of the whole region," said the inspector.
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