Benjamin Kahn is an
Israeli marine biologistMarine biology is the scientific study of living organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment...
. He has been fighting for the survival of the
Red SeaThe Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez,...
reefIn nautical terminology, a reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water ....
, which began dying when giant
fish farmsFish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species'...
were built in 1997, and the cages were spewing tons of uneaten food and
excrementExcretion is the process of eliminating waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials. It is an essential process in all forms of life. It contrasts secretion, where the substance may have specific tasks after leaving the cell....
onto the reef. Kahn appeared on Time Magazine's list of "
Heroes of the EnvironmentHeroes of the Environment is a list compiled by TIME magazine since 2007:*Heroes of the Environment *Heroes of the Environment *Heroes of the Environment...
" October 2007.
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Benjamin Kahn is an
Israeli marine biologistMarine biology is the scientific study of living organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment...
. He has been fighting for the survival of the
Red SeaThe Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez,...
reefIn nautical terminology, a reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water ....
, which began dying when giant
fish farmsFish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species'...
were built in 1997, and the cages were spewing tons of uneaten food and
excrementExcretion is the process of eliminating waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials. It is an essential process in all forms of life. It contrasts secretion, where the substance may have specific tasks after leaving the cell....
onto the reef. Kahn appeared on Time Magazine's list of "
Heroes of the EnvironmentHeroes of the Environment is a list compiled by TIME magazine since 2007:*Heroes of the Environment *Heroes of the Environment *Heroes of the Environment...
" October 2007.
Kahn's work has been done largely through Zalul Environmental Association, an environmental
non-profit organizationA nonprofit organization is an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals . Examples of NPOs include charities , trade unions, and public arts organizations...
dedicated to protecting the seas and rivers in
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
.