JERUSALEM, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Israel launched on Tuesday the first tourist marine nature reserve in the Mediterranean Sea off the country's northern coast, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority said.
The protected site, named Rosh Hanikra-Akhziv Marine Reserve, extends along about 7 km of coast with bays from the Lebanese border in the north to the city of Nahariya to the south, and about 15 km west from the coastline into the sea.
