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War for the Planet of the Apes Partners with JGI To Help Chimps

April 01, 2026 — What compels us about the narrative of a young woman entering into an unknown jungle to discover a world of primates, so much like ourselves? It is the realization of our ultimate connection to these beings; a learned respect for something within great apes and all those derived from this shared earthly and ancient evolutionary […]

Stop the Show: Motambo’s Story

April 01, 2026 — One seemingly ordinary day in 2012 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, an employee of local NGO PALF received a tip off that soon a boat would be arriving holding smuggled cargo. Sure enough, a few days later, authorities boarded the suspect boat. What they found was a special kind of cargo: a small, sick chimpanzee. […]

Sea Turtles Find Their Way Back Home Thanks to Mady

April 01, 2026 — At 18, many might be able to claim that they were involved in a number of clubs, perhaps won a number of awards, but Mady, however, can claim different kinds of successes! Mady Eori, is 18 years old, a sophomore at Boston University and a member of the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots. A double major in environmental […]

World Turtle Day: Excerpt from ‘Hope for Animals and Their World’

April 01, 2026 — For World Turtle Day, we must celebrate all the movements led by everyday people, working individually or together, to protect turtles and their environments. Dr. Goodall, as usual, offers a perfectly inspiring tale of the tortoises of Madagascar (specifically the ploughshare tortoise, one of the most critically endangered in the world) and their potential salvation, […]

The Beauty and Perseverance of Biodiversity

April 01, 2026 — Today, on International Day of Biodiversity, I reflect on the fact that we are experiencing the 6th great extinction; the first great extinction attributed directly to human actions. I have spent many, many days in the rain forests of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, and enjoyed opportunities to visit forests in other countries as well […]

Stop the Show: Luc’s Story

April 01, 2026 — It’s a busy day in the restaurant. Children visiting with their parents poke Luc, wishing to rile him into some sort of dance. Luc tries to retaliate, to follow the children to play, but he is tethered to a post by a tightly bound rope. Luc is a chimpanzee. He was taken as an infant, […]

The Show Stops Now: Chimps Aren’t Entertainment

April 01, 2026 — Internationally, chimpanzees and other great apes are used as props in television, film, circuses, roadside attractions, as pets and as social media share-able content. This cruel business removes chimps from their mothers at an early age, puts them into torturous training programs, asks them to perform unnatural acts, and eventually tosses these beautiful, highly social […]

A Bush Walk with Pea the Pangolin in Mozambique

April 01, 2026 — Pangolins are nocturnal and solitary. Just as people around the world are hearing more about them, the demand for their meat and scales is driving them toward extinction. In our travels in Africa, my husband Mark and I have longed to see a Pangolin, without success…until we met Pea. Rescued from poachers and cared for […]

Making Good Choices at the Grocery Store

April 01, 2026 — As consumers, one of our greatest powers is choosing what product to buy. When we purchase something at the store, we are giving our money to the company that produced or supplied that product. Each dollar spent is a message to that store demonstrating that this product will sell, that you like what they are […]

Remembering La Vieille: Mother To Orphaned Chimps

April 01, 2026 — I am not sure who introduced me to La Vieille for the first time, way back in the late 1980s. She was living (existing rather) in what was known as the Pointe Noire Zoo in the Republic of Congo. It had been built, in the French colonial era, as a holding station for wild animals […]

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War for the Planet of the Apes Partners with JGI To Help Chimps

Stop the Show: Motambo’s Story

Sea Turtles Find Their Way Back Home Thanks to Mady

World Turtle Day: Excerpt from ‘Hope for Animals and Their World’

The Beauty and Perseverance of Biodiversity

Stop the Show: Luc’s Story

The Show Stops Now: Chimps Aren’t Entertainment

A Bush Walk with Pea the Pangolin in Mozambique

Making Good Choices at the Grocery Store

Remembering La Vieille: Mother To Orphaned Chimps