Open Landscape Institute (OLI)
Land has become a precious commodity; the economic incentive for developers is highly enticing. SPNI is at the frontline, preserving the untouched land, still in its natural state, for wildlife, birds, and recreation, while promoting sustainable development, allowing residential areas to expand without clear-cutting the forests Israel has spent so many years planting.
Read more about this topic: Society For The Protection Of Nature In Israel
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—Joan Rivers (b. 1935)
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)