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
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