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The Puerto Rican Parrot: Rescued from Extinction

January 05, 2017 — The Puerto Rican Parrot Amazona vittata: Rescued from Extinction It was during a visit to Puerto Rico with Roots & Shoots champions, Dr. Rick and Nelly Asselta, that I heard about a perfect Good News story for this blog – the rescue of the endemic Puerto Rican Parrot from the very brink of extinction. I […]

World AIDS Day 2016

December 01, 2016 — On this day, let us please celebrate the progress science is making in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. It is a day for giving thanks to those scientists who have worked so hard and continue to work to find new advancements for treatments and medications. We must also take time to think of all of […]

Post Election 2016: What’s Next?

November 28, 2016 — Over the past few weeks, friends and colleagues from around the world have written to express concern about what the results of the US presidential election might mean for all of us who care passionately about every aspect of JGI’s work – conservation, animal welfare, peace, human rights and wellbeing and environmental education. I absolutely […]

Tales from the Food Crisis: The True Horrors of GMOs

October 31, 2016 — How could we have ever believed that it as a good idea to grow our food with poisons. – Dr. Jane Goodall To celebrate the end of Non-GMO month, we are excited to share the below excerpt from Dr. Jane Goodall’s book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants, published by […]

Jane Speaks: The Dakota Access Pipeline – Native Protectors of Sacred Water Draw the Line

September 27, 2016 — The Pipe It is interesting that in an era of consolidated messages for use in digital channels, campaigns for justice often develop shortened, “catchy” taglines. These phrases provide a touchstone for unified voices and repeated commitment to a cause – the sound of people fighting together, building on more and more voices when these voices may otherwise be […]

The Tree that Survived 9/11

September 11, 2016 — This story comes from another dark chapter in human history. A recent horror, which all but young children will remember. A day in 2001 when the World Trade Center was attacked, when the Twin Towers fell, when the world changed forever. I was in New York on that terrible day, traveling with my friend and […]

Letter from Jane: New York Blood Center, Take Responsibility For Research Chimps

September 06, 2016 — UPDATE: Last year, after using a colony of more than 60 chimpanzees on an island off the coast of Liberia for 30 years of biomedical research, the New York Blood Center withdrew all funding and left them to die. Last week, after private negotiations between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the New […]

My Special Memories of Elephants

August 12, 2016 — There were some individuals who were special. I am thinking of Rafiki (meaning ‘friend’ in Kiswahili) with her twin calves. I first saw them when they were only a couple of weeks old. It was when Derek Bryceson, my former husband, was Director of Tanzania National Parks. I had suggested that we might train park […]

Jane’s Message for World Elephant Day

August 12, 2016 — Today is World Elephant Day and I am thinking of the magical times when I have been privileged to watch wild elephants in different places in Africa. How wonderful it was to see them feeding, using their trunks like hands to pick leaves overhead, or tear up lush green grass in great bunches, then push […]

The First Time I Saw A Lion

August 10, 2016 — I will never forget my first sighting of a wild lion. Today lions are listed as threatened, but this was far from the case when I arrived in Africa in 1957. Louis and Mary Leakey invited me to take part in a three month ‘dig’ at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The Leakey’s were sure that the […]

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The Puerto Rican Parrot: Rescued from Extinction

World AIDS Day 2016

Post Election 2016: What’s Next?

Tales from the Food Crisis: The True Horrors of GMOs

Jane Speaks: The Dakota Access Pipeline – Native Protectors of Sacred Water Draw the Line

The Tree that Survived 9/11

Letter from Jane: New York Blood Center, Take Responsibility For Research Chimps

My Special Memories of Elephants

Jane’s Message for World Elephant Day

The First Time I Saw A Lion