Mar Saba – Wadi Qadron

The region No.                                              004

The district                                                     Bethlehem

The area                                                         5km

The site                                                           East of Bethlehem

The Latitude & longitude                               31 43`N 35  21`E

The description of the region:

It is an agricultural and grazing region. It is located in the center of Jerusalem wildlife in the southern side of Bethlehem. In this area there is a monastery called Saint Saba monastery, which is locate near Wadi Qadron that starts from Jerusalem and reach the Dead Sea.

There is way to this monastery from the southern side and it is called Al Nabi Mousa way ( the Jerusalem – Jericho way ), and then from Al Sahara region to the southern side of the monastery through the desert and mount way at which a lot of tourist visit daily because of the beauty of this region, there is a main road from Bethlehem and pass by Beit Sahour and           Village to the monastery region. The herder and their shepherd live in this region.

Wadi Qadron is a lasting stream. The sewage water is currently transferred from Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beit Sahour, Beit Jala, and the Israeli’s settlements to this stream. This region consists of religious and historical rewinds return to the fifth century, specially the remaining of the construction rewinds on the top and the center of the mountain, which the animals and birds use it as a shelter during the winter and Breeding time.

The plant of this region:

Anemone.

The animal of this region:

Gazelle, Rocky Hyrax, fox, and Hyeana.

The birds of this region:

There is the Lesser Kestrel, it is registered about ten couples in the monastery region, and it nests in the walls of the monastery, the Sand Partridge, Tristram’s Grackle, Egyptian Vulture, and Palestine Sunbird are considered as resident birds in the monastery region.

The negative affects:

• Garbage disposal in the monastery region by the persons that live in the villages.

• Wadi Qadron is full of sewage water that comes from the Israeli’s settlements and some of the Palestinian countries.

• The hunting.

• The unjust grazing.

The protection procedures:

• The treatment of the garbage.

• The organizing of the grazing in this region.

• Prevention and organizing of the hunting especially in the coming three years.

• Encouraging of the environmental tourism.

• Training of tourist guides for the region in order to make environmental tourism trips.  

• Find solutions form the sewage water that comes from the countries and the Israeli settlements by managing the treatment projects to get use of the water that results from the treatment to irrigate the region. This gives the chance to decline the Desertification problem.

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