Nutria ,Hula nature reserve, Upper Galilee ,Israel ,Great Rift Valley,Agamon Hahula.
Hula Lake Park, known in Hebrew as Agamon HaHula , is located in the southern part of the Hula Valley, north of the nature to its drainage in the early 1950s, Lake Hula was kilometers long and kilometers wide, extending over 12-14 square kilometers. It was about one and a half meters deep in summer and three meters deep in marshland around Lake Hula, a breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying malaria, was drained in the 1950s. A small section of the valley was later reflooded in an attempt to revive a nearly extinct ecosystem. An estimated 500 million migrating birds now pass through the Hula Lake Park every year. the Nutria or Coypu was introduced as a fur breeder in the Upper Galilee and released or escaped after the failure of the breeding experiment .It has thrived in the Hula reserve but has not yrt made its way out of the lake into the Sea of Galilee and environs .
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Location: Hula Nature Reserve Upper Galilee Israel
Photo credit: © moris kushelevitch / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: african, agamon, america., coypu, drained, hahula, herbivorous, invasive, marshland, native, nutria, rat, reserve, rift, river, rodent, semiaquatic, south, species, syrian
