Database for diagnostics & implementations, tracking continuity towards solutions.
- Soil regeneration: High (”95%”) plant mortality rate initially; ongoing soil rehabilitation through manure, wood chips, and hugelkultur methods
- Wildlife damage: Wild boars destroying plantings despite fencing efforts
- Security threats: Illegal settlers, tree poachers, vandalism; Area C location under Israeli control creates vulnerability
- Lack of expertise: No available arboretum designers, professional gardeners, or horticultural specialists in Palestine
- Funding limitations: Insufficient resources to achieve full vision without partnerships
- Legal complexity: Area C restrictions prohibit building, road-opening, cistern-digging (though proceeded anyway); land privately owned but needs rezoning to nature preserve
- Municipal contract: Awaiting finalization (within 2 weeks) with protective clauses to maintain vision