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Jane Reflects on 25 Years of Empowering Youth

April 01, 2026 — Today marks a big day in history for me, the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots as we celebrate the 25th anniversary since the founding of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots programme. What started with 12 Tanzanian students in 1991, has grown into a global humanitarian youth programme, canvassing 130+ countries with hundreds of thousands […]

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Top 10 Moments of 2015

April 01, 2026 — As 2015 draws to a close, we at the Jane Goodall Institute would like to reflect on all of the incredible things that have happened over the year. Below see our top ten moments from 2015. Click on the page numbers below to browse our top moments from 2015.

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End of Year Message from Jane

April 01, 2026 — Our year could not be complete without a special end of year message from our founder and fearless leader, Jane. Her message comes to us from “wet, windy, but not as cold as it should be, England”, at her sanctuary, the house she grew up in as a child. Jane just finished nearly three months of […]

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A Win for Africa’s Lions

April 01, 2026 — Today is a big day for lions, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended protection to Africa’s lions following the aftermath of recent stories of trophy hunting and the decline of the overall species as a whole. In a statement, Dr. Goodall said “I welcome the news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]

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Global March for the Climate – Call to Action from Dr. Goodall

April 01, 2026 — Dr. Jane Goodall urges JGI members, Roots & Shoots youth and all environmental stewards to participate in the November 29 Global March for Climate in order to show politicians around the world that they care about acting on climate change. The Global March for Climate is a worldwide event with marches already planned in nearly […]

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STOP THE BURNING: 30 Global Leaders Band Together to End Deforestation

April 01, 2026 — In this powerful film narrated by Dr. Jane Goodall, “STOP THE BURNING” incorporates the voices of 30 global leaders during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland who shared their thoughts about the importance of saving our forest. As these innovators, changemakers and forest advocates gathered their thoughts, their message was clear – to address […]

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55 Years at Gombe: Q & A With Jane on Growth of Life’s Work

April 01, 2026 — In 1960, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent Jane Goodall, a 26 year old native of England with no college degree or scientific experience, to Africa with a mission: learn everything she could about wild chimpanzees. Leakey hoped that information on chimpanzees would shed light on human’s evolutionary past. But for Goodall, studying the chimpanzees just to […]

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Call to Action: Crowdsourcing to Fight Indonesia’s Fires

April 01, 2026 — Watch the video above to see Jane’s message about the fires in Indonesia. Indonesia continues to experience dangerous forest fires across the country, with over 100,000 active fires detected in 2015. The fires have been raging since September and are now releasing more emissions daily than the entire U.S. economy. In the past three weeks […]

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Notes From the Road: Jane’s Trip to Abu Dhabi

April 01, 2026 — Early Spring 2015 Got to London a day early to do an interview for the BBC in their very far away studio. Took for ever to get there. And was a somewhat bizarre set up – big empty space, with a little chair for me in a pool of light, and blue background. Nice people […]

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Introducing Jane Goodall’s Good for All News

April 01, 2026 — We are excited to announce our new blog featuring stories of hope from Jane and the team! Jane Goodall’s Good for All News shares the stories of the many positive advances being made in the world for protecting wildlife — especially chimpanzees — and how every individual can do their part to make a difference […]

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