Prof. Uri Shanas, a zoologist and ecologist at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, is purchasing private land across the globe to save forests and rare animals. He established TiME – This is My Earth, an NGO that strives to purchase and preserve 2.3% of Earth’s entire territory. Now, for the fifth consecutive year, his crowdsourcing NGO has managed to raise funds to acquire two plots of land in a single year: 500 acres in Brazil’s Atlantic forest and 200 acres in the Dakatcha woodland in Kenya. READ MORE in the Jerusalem Post and the Jewish Press
*The Serra Bonita mountain range in Brazil is home to the Northern brown howler monkey (pictured above) and 27 endangered species of bird. | Credit: © Bruno Miranda
In the News Congratulations to Prof. (Emeritus) Giora Hon (Department of Philosophy) on his recent election to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Giora
This year’s European Research Night was held online for the first time. The UofH virtual booth showcased a broad mix of research topics through open
Dr. Judith Somekh (Department of Information Systems) recently identified a novel data science method that significantly shortens the identification of cell-surface receptor functions that are responsible
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