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Conservation Nonprofit to Buy and Protect Land in Kenya and Brazil Conservation Nonprofit to Buy and Protect Land in Kenya and Brazil Comments Off on Conservation Nonprofit to Buy and Protect Land in Kenya and Brazil A nonprofit founded by two Israeli professors has raised enough money to purchase and protect two plots of land. This is My Earth (TiME), created in 2015 by Professor Uri Shanas of the University of Haifa-Oranim and Professor Alon Tal from Tel Aviv University, secured funds for the fifth year in a row to buy parcels of land where rare animals and plants struggle to survive.

This is My Earth to buy, protect areas of Kenya and Brazil Threatened creatures in the soon-to-be-protected areas are the Clarke’s weaver, northern brown howler monkey and other rare animal and plant species. An endangered northern brown howler. Photo © Bruno Miranda This is My Earth (TiME), an international crowdfunding project founded by two Israeli professors, buys and protects parcels of land where rare animals and plants struggle to survive. This year, its fifth in operation, TiME raised enough money to purchase two plots: 500 acres in the Serra Bonita mountain range of Brazil’s Atl...