Liat Hadar 
Avi Perevolotsky

Ramat Hanadiv, a privately-owned Mediterranean Nature Park in Northern Israel, is managed according to the ‘adaptive management’ approach, followed by a long term monitoring program (LTER). Thirty years of applying active management in the park, aimed to conserve its biological assets among other goals, resulted in three main lessons: (1) Scientific knowledge is never sufficient, hence most management decisions are not objective but valuedriven; (2) Highest ecological values exist in the most disturbed habitats; and (3) No park is an island! The neighboring community is and should be a central player in most management decisions.