Yatir Forest, in Yatir District, on the southern Slopes of Mount Hebron in Israel. Photo: Okedem / Wikimedia Commons i24 News – Yatir Forest, Israel’s largest human-planted forest and the world’s largest planted forest in a sub-desert area, is now in danger of disappearing. Home to the northern end of the Negev desert in southern Israel, the Allepo pines of the Yatir forest have grown there since the Jewish National Fund first planted them over 60 years ago, and have since survived in the hostile and dry desert environment. “It’s a miracle to see these trees in these hard conditions,”...