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Keeping Jane’s Green Hope Growing with Key Partners

April 01, 2026 — Dr. Jane Goodall has always had a special relationship with trees, from the beech tree growing in the yard of her 🔗 childhood home to 🔗 the tree that survived 9/11. After seeing the depletion of forests around Gombe, Tanzania—where she had begun her research into wild chimpanzees years before—Jane knew she had to act. […]

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Photo of a masculine person with dark skin and a buzzcut haircut wearing a Jane Goodall Institute polo shirt speaking to a group of people: two masculine people with dark skin and buzzcut haircuts, one feminine person with dark skin and hair hidden under a bucket hat, and one feminine person with light skin and shoulder-length, wavy, blond hair.

Community Forest Monitors Embrace Gender Equity in Tanzania and Uganda

April 01, 2026 — Deforestation is a major threat that is driving both the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. It also threatens millions of people who depend upon vital natural resources and ecosystem services. As the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) works to ensure a sustainable and equitable future for our planet and all life on it, we are focusing […]

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Care for the Soil, Care for All  

April 01, 2026 — Social Science campaign empowers communities through composting and aims to reduce deforestation.  Sophia Moris of Isubangala village in Tanzania began farming at a young age in 1993. Over time, she experienced a loss of soil fertility which led to poor productivity. Struggling economically, she resorted to clearing nearby forests to establish new farmland. Lucy Elias […]

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Neema & Wamelo : Women Making it Happen for Conservation & Communities

April 01, 2026 — The JGI Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) initiative funded by USAID that uses our Tacare approach of community-led conservation has had a tremendous impact on Neema Elias, a 33-year-old mother of three. In 2018, when LCWT began working in Katumba Settlement, Neema joined a COCOBA—a community conservation banking group supported by JGI. She immediately […]

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Inspiring Youth Project: Native Wildlife Winter Wonderland

April 01, 2026 — 🎶 Oh the weather outside is frightful—at least in parts of the US that have distinct seasons and cold winters! But every ecosystem experiences shifts throughout the year, presenting native wildlife with unique challenges to overcome. Just as we help out in our human communities when times are tough—donating time or supplies for disaster relief, […]

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Communities Lead Sustainable Development in Vikonge, Tanzania

April 01, 2026 — Just a short time ago, Vikonge community in Tanzania was facing complex challenges. The village was dealing with natural resource depletion and other environmental threats due to a lack of land-use plans,limited capacity, and an absence of modern technological tools to conduct regular forest patrols. Through the Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) program—funded by […]

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Second Chances in 2022: Stories from Tchimpounga’s Chimpanzees 

April 01, 2026 — In another year full of unique global challenges, a little bit of hope goes a long way. One place we’re finding a lot of hope is in the inspiring stories from our programs! The Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of the Congo (RoC) offers second chances to chimpanzees orphaned or […]

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Conservation of Colombia’s Cotton-top Tamarin is a Community Effort! 

April 01, 2026 — How do you save a species? Dr. Anne Savage has some ideas! Recently, conservationist, freelance writer, and friend of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), Bill Boteler, wrote an article for Conservation Careers on the inspiring work of Dr. Savage, who has been studying and trying to protect Colombia’s Cotton-top Tamarin for 40 years. He spoke […]

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JGI’s Community Microcredit Programs Expand Horizons for Sustainable Development  

April 01, 2026 — In Tanzania, JGI has long supported community-managed funds to support sustainable development, and in 2021, through the Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) project, this work grew in new ways including 17 new COCOBA (community conservation banking) groups in the first quarter alone! Each COCOBA group selected a community leader to be trained on general […]

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2021 Chimpanzee Updates from Tchimpounga  

April 01, 2026 — One of the cornerstones of Dr. Goodall’s ethos is the concept that non-human animals are sentient, complex, intelligent, compassionate, and have innate value. JGI caretakers at Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in Republic of the Congo witness that every day across the sanctuary’s diverse groups.  Ramsey Last summer, the chimpanzees on Tchimpounga’s Ngombe Island were gradually […]

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