Earthacre, Inc.

Earthacre, Inc. Connecting technology with communities for climate and biodiversity solutions.

🌍✨ Africa’s natural capital deserves leaders who truly appreciate its economic, cultural, and social worth. That’s why w...
03/02/2026

🌍✨ Africa’s natural capital deserves leaders who truly appreciate its economic, cultural, and social worth. That’s why we were proud to host the 2026 cohort of the ALU School of Wildlife Conservation’s Nature Executive Fellowship — a programme designed further this vision — for an experience rooted in a real landscape.

📈 Recently, Kitengela has rapidly transformed into one of Kenya’s fastest-growing urban areas. With construction booming, local landowners often see conservation as financially unsustainable.

💪 However, community efforts in the Kitengela Conservation Area, supported by organizations like The Wildlife Foundation, delivers some of the strongest returns on investment for nature imaginable.

🔑 Our key message to the fellows was simple: Communities must be compensated for their vital conservation work. Tools like EarthAcre’s platform now exist for leaders to navigate legal, operational and traceability barriers to make this vision a reality.

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🔊 We are thrilled to be recognized by Innovate 4 Nature as a Wyss Academy for Nature Grant recipient! This recognition, ...
26/01/2026

🔊 We are thrilled to be recognized by Innovate 4 Nature as a Wyss Academy for Nature Grant recipient! This recognition, announced at the in last week, highlights our work to ensure communities get paid for nature stewardship, leveraging EarthAcre’s platform for traceable financial practices and measurement of nature outcomes.

A heartfelt thank you to Innovate 4 Nature, , and the jury for your trust and support.

⚡️Meet our team⚡️Yasha Portnoy built his career scaling applications at the intersection of sustainability and technolog...
20/01/2026

⚡️Meet our team⚡️

Yasha Portnoy built his career scaling applications at the intersection of sustainability and technology.

Over a 10-year tenure and 6 leadership roles at circular economy pioneer Optoro, he rose from one of the founding engineers to Director of Engineering, building and scaling Optoro’s entire product ecosystem — from the core software and cloud infrastructure to the data architecture and advanced platform tools that empowered their customers to meet global demand. Transforming complex logistics into seamless digital solutions allowed the world’s largest retailers to adopt more sustainable operations, including Best Buy and Target.

That experience gave him something invaluable: The ability to architect systems in environments where clarity is rare and coordination is hard.

That’s what Yasha brings to EarthAcre today: Applying system design, data infrastructure, product thinking, leadership, and startup scrappiness to build EarthAcre’s technical backbone.

⬆️Read to learn about how Yasha took on the challenges of nature finance head-on as CTO of EarthAcre.

📣 If you are interested in scaling nature stewardship with communities, enabled by technology — reach out at the link in our bio!

Costa Rica paid its citizens to protect nature — and it worked. 🌳 In the 1980s, Costa Rica had one of the highest defore...
05/11/2025

Costa Rica paid its citizens to protect nature — and it worked. 🌳

In the 1980s, Costa Rica had one of the highest deforestation rates on Earth.

Farmers cleared trees to survive — and forests vanished fast.

Then the country did something radical, pioneered by the former Minister of the Environment and Energy Carlos Manuel Rodriguez: Instead of punishing deforestation, it paid people to keep forests standing.

The government’s Payments for Environmental Services (PES) program:
↳ Pays landowners about $60 per hectare per year for forest protection
↳ Funds the payments through a fossil fuel tax and water fees
↳ Contracts directly with landholders — over 19,000 agreements so far

The results?
✅ Forest cover has doubled since the 1980s
✅ Over 1.3 million hectares of land are under protection
✅ Rural incomes have risen while biodiversity rebounds
✅ The program runs at a fraction of the cost of conventional conservation

Costa Rica’s approach shows what’s possible when people and nature are on the same side.

We need models that make conservation investable, inclusive, and scalable.
🌍 Direct payments for nature outcomes could be the foundation.

That’s the future we’re working to enable at EarthAcre with our platform. Click the link in our bio to learn more!

Meet  — Conservation leader, Indigenous Maasai woman, and co-founder of EarthAcre.Her journey started with a question:“W...
31/10/2025

Meet  — Conservation leader, Indigenous Maasai woman, and co-founder of EarthAcre.

Her journey started with a question:

“What if conservation had come to us — before we had to sell our land?”

Patita witnessed firsthand how her community in the Athi-Kaputiei landscape was forced to fragment their lands to survive — to pay for food on their tables, for school fees, for hospital bills. And as a result, those lands changed natural grassland ecosystems to industrial landscapes.

But what if her community had access to nature finance?

This vision is what led her to become a co-founder at : Building a platform that makes nature stewardship financially feasible for communities.

By pairing technology with local knowledge, we aim to make community owned landscapes investable for nature finance so that these lands can remain open, cultures can be strong, and nature can thrive.

🌿Patita brings experience in natural resource conservation, policy advocacy, and Indigenous leadership. She’s a board member of the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, a member of Verra’s SDAG, and a graduate of the University of Cambridge’s Conservation Leadership program.

If you are a project developer or funder interesting in scaling nature stewardship with communities — reach out at www.earthacre.com/contact-us

🚀 Exciting News! 🌍 Join us at the this week for a transformative session on climate finance, where our very own Elizab...
22/10/2025

🚀 Exciting News! 🌍

Join us at the this week for a transformative session on climate finance, where our very own Elizabeth Gitari-Mitaru will be speaking about how the Earthacre platform enables traceability and equitable benefit sharing in nature-based projects.

💬 Panel Title: Reshaping Climate Finance"
📅 Date: Thursday, 23 October
🕰️ Time: 11:45 - 13:00 CAT
📍 Location: M4D Theatre, Kigali Convention Centre

Register here: https://www.mwckigali.com/

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When community members are paid directly for conservation, nature wins.Research conducted in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania...
20/10/2025

When community members are paid directly for conservation, nature wins.

Research conducted in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania, by Fred Nelson and Hassan Sachedina, sheds light on this. (Link in comments)

📍In Simanjiro District, conventional approaches like donations from national park revenues and trophy hunting fees didn’t work.

Why? They didn't build trust. Villagers still felt excluded, even though these new revenues went to building things that they should have benefited from, like schools or cattle dips.

Behavior change was lacking, and trust in the state didn't improve, with persisting conflicts between Park authorities and villagers.

But when direct, conditional payments were introduced, enabled by —
💰 Formal agreements with local communities;
🌿 Payments tied to land being set aside for wildlife and ecotourism;
🤝 Transparent responsibilities on both sides
— the results were clear. Nearly 48,000 hectares were protected by communities themselves.

That’s 18% the size of the national park, achieved without expanding the park boundary.

At EarthAcre, this is what we’re building: a scalable platform that enables traceable payments to households in conservation-critical areas, no matter the complexity in land-tenure or community structure. It's combining unit economics with the cultural fabrics that regenerate our planet. It's enabling agency, clarity and resilience.

📢 If you’re interested in learning more about this proven approach— let’s connect: https://bit.ly/4nU5Di1

On Friday 26th September, EarthAcre participated in the Athi Kapiti Ecosystem (AKE) Joint Stakeholders Meeting hosted by...
03/10/2025

On Friday 26th September, EarthAcre participated in the Athi Kapiti Ecosystem (AKE) Joint Stakeholders Meeting hosted by , attended by stakeholders including Conservancies across Athi-Kapiti (Naretunoi, Olerai, Olosira, etc.), Athikapiti wildlife conservancies association, , Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association ( ), the County Government Village Administrator, Assistant Chief of the Ministry of Interior, Pardamat Conservation Area.

🗣️ The meeting was chaired by KWCA CEO Dickson Kaelo, and featured dynamic discussions about the current state of conservation within the Athi-Kapiti Ecosystem. We explored key achievements to date, identified challenges and opportunities, and outlined a collaborative path forward for a cohesive and robust landscape approach.

👏 A big thank you to everyone involved, and we look forward to more productive meetings like this in the future!

Nkamunu Patita

🌍✨Exciting few days at the community-led conservation workshop hosted by in San Francisco as our co-founder, Nkamunu P...
25/09/2025

🌍✨Exciting few days at the community-led conservation workshop hosted by in San Francisco as our co-founder, Nkamunu Patita , joined other Indigenous leaders to discuss the crucial connection between livelihoods and conservation efforts.

The workshop highlighted how essential the well-being of communities is for effective conservation. As Mulago CEO Kevin Starr and Rohit Gawande put it:

'There are consistently four pillars of good Community-Led Conservation—four things you have to get right. These are:

1. Sovereignty – Clear rights to the territory and its resources.
2. Governance – A local governing structure that enforces rules and shares benefits.
3. Protection & Management – The ability to manage resources well, and deal with threats inside and out. Because there are always going to be threats.
4. Livelihoods – Ways for people to meet their needs from that land.'

You can read the rest of the blog post here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10u5VmA5btAZlHHzwl8wAI7paV9MhmrkGQDP3ZrcGKqk/edit?tab=t.0

At EarthAcre, our platform digitizes and organizes the essential information that forms the backbone for these pillars. This in turn makes community owned and managed lands investable, enabling individual community members to access diverse pools of nature finance and get paid for their vital role in protecting nature. You can learn more about our work here: www.earthacre.com

By focusing on the needs of communities, we can create a sustainable future where both people and ecosystems thrive. Thanks again to Mulago and all the other incredible organizations doing this important work from different angles.

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At the East Africa Grassland Restoration Project, and are co-designers of a pilot 23,311-acre initiative in Kenya. W...
25/08/2025

At the East Africa Grassland Restoration Project, and are co-designers of a pilot 23,311-acre initiative in Kenya. We are thrilled that the project has now been validated and registered under Verra’s VM0042 methodology, with pioneering remote sensing technology greatly reducing costs and scale-potential.

EarthAcre is proud to be powering the community and financial backbone of this work, ensuring that key stakeholders — from to landowners alike — can track free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), landownership, and transparency in financial flows. 

The EarthAcre platform: 

✅ Digitally records every single FPIC engagement, with every single participant;

✅ Opens two-way communication channels; 

✅ Enables direct landowner payments, regardless of complexity in land tenure or community structure;

✅ Makes every payment traceable from end-to-end, from funder disbursement down to individual community members or landowners

👉 Reach out to us to learn more about this model and our platform!

25/06/2025

🔊 “Aid is good, but aid is not enough… and -driven models will define the future of how we move into .”

👂Hear from Dorothy Maseke, CFIRM, Head of the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA) Secretariat, as she spoke at our launch event earlier this year.

🤝 Thank you, , for your invaluable - having who are so aligned with our affirms that creating a new model for IS possible!

We look forward to continuing this important , and others, at in the ‘Unlocking Nature Finance in Africa: Bridging Capital, Projects & Policy’ session, where EarthAcre’s CEO, Viraj Sikand, will also be speaking.

🌍🌿 E is for ‘Ecosystems’🔄When we talk about , we often focus on individual , but let’s also remember the bigger pictur...
05/06/2025

🌍🌿 E is for ‘Ecosystems’🔄

When we talk about , we often focus on individual , but let’s also remember the bigger picture: the healthy that support all life.

These intricate webs provide us with
💨💧Clean air and water
🐘🐝🐠 Thriving
☀️❄️🌪️ regulation
🌳🌱 Essential resources

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Conservation isn’t just about saving one animal; it’s about safeguarding the entire, vital system. When ecosystems are degrade, everything suffers.

A healthy means a healthier future for all of us!

Visit our website (in bio) for more information on how is helping to protect and restore the invaluable ecosystems that sustain life on this 🌍!

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