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Roots & Shoots USA Awards 261 Grants to Support Impactful Projects

April 01, 2026 — Through Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots—youth action program of the Jane Goodall Institute—young people everywhere are empowered to see themselves as changemakers in their communities. Members of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots USA use the 🔗 4-Step Formula to create projects that tackle issues they are most passionate about, from equity and inclusion to animal […]

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LEADING CHANGE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL FARMERS 

April 01, 2026 — The Gombe-Masito-Ugalla ecosystem is home to more than 90% of Tanzania’s estimated 2,200 chimpanzees—a population that is facing increasing threats due to habitat loss and population fragmentation, disease, and illegal wild meat and wildlife trade. Underlying these threats, the drivers of human inequities and challenges deplete natural resources and expand unsustainable land-use practices. In response, […]

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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Youth Program Sustainability Supported by Toyota 

April 01, 2026 — Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots youth program, created by Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), and UN Messenger of Peace will be supported by a new initiative and partnership in alignment with Toyota Motor North America’s sustainability goals. Since 1991, Roots & Shoots, a core program of the Jane Goodall Institute, […]

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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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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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Roots & Shoots Launches Basecamps in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Tampa

April 01, 2026 — If you’ve kept an eye on our Roots & Shoots social media channels, you may have seen the term “Roots & Shoots basecamp” popping up recently. We’ve been cooking up this exciting new effort for a while now, and we’re excited to share some more information with all of you! Wait, what’s Roots & Shoots? […]

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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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Black Changemakers & Environmentalists Building a Better Future for All

April 01, 2026 — Across the United States and around the world, human existence is tightly bound to the ecosystems upon which we all rely. As we face the injustices and inequities that harm human communities – and disproportionately negatively impact people of color – we recognize the ways in which our relationship with the natural world is at […]

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Notes From the Field: Anna Rathmann, JGI USA Executive Director in Gombe

April 01, 2026 — There are special places in this world that have changed the course of history. Places that defined an era, a belief, or an understanding; ultimately such places shape the trajectory of our own understanding. Amid the steep mountainsides, within a dense forest in western Tanzania, is such a place: Gombe National Park. It was there […]

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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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