{"id":1039462,"date":"2026-09-29T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039462"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:44:07","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-donated-4-million-to-save-a-600-year-old-hawaii-fishpond-they-wont-own-the-land-nonprofit-that-now-owns-says-we-plan-to-restore-it-as-a-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-donated-4-million-to-save-a-600-year-old-hawaii-fishpond-they-wont-own-the-land-nonprofit-that-now-owns-says-we-plan-to-restore-it-as-a-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan donated $4 million to save a 600-year-old Hawaii fishpond; they won&#8217;t own the land; nonprofit that now owns says: We plan to restore it as a working&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have helped preserve a historic fishpond in Hawaii. The couple has committed $4 million to ensure the future of Alakoko Fishpond, a roughly 600-year-old aquaculture site on Kaua\u02bbi that had been experiencing environmental degradation and pressure from potential development. That donation helped the Trust for Public Land buy the 102-acre property in 2021 and turn it over to local nonprofit M\u0101lama Hul\u0113\u2018ia for long-term stewardship. Importantly, Zuckerberg and Chan don\u2019t own the land. Instead, the property is protected as a conservation site.According to a report by Resonate Voices, the nonprofit that now owns the property has plans to restore it as a working fishpond and outdoor classroom where students and volunteers can learn traditional Hawaiian aquaculture, native ecosystems, history and culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have helped preserve a historic fishpond in Hawaii. The couple has committed $4 million to ensure the future of Alakoko Fishpond, a roughly 600-year-old aquaculture site on Kaua\u02bbi that had been experiencing environmental degradation and pressure from potential development. That donation helped the Trust for Public Land buy the 102-acre property in 2021 and turn it over to local nonprofit M\u0101lama Hul\u0113\u2018ia for long-term stewardship. Importantly, Zuckerberg and Chan don\u2019t own the land. Instead, the property is protected as a conservation site.According to a report by Resonate Voices, the nonprofit that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039463,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039462\/revisions\/1039463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}