Inspiring Youth Project of the Month: Sustainable Palm Oil
🎃 Happy spooky season, changemakers! 🦇 We hope you’re staying safe and that you take the time to enjoy the festivities during what has been a particularly difficult year. Halloween is a time for fun, a time for playful scares, and of course, a time for eating too much candy! But do you know what’s in your […]
Tchimpounga’s Chimpanzee Welfare Index: Future of Improved Captive Welfare
Dr. Goodall’s research demonstrating that non-human animals are sentient, complex, intelligent, compassionate, and have innate value transformed human understanding of our relationship with the natural world. It also increased reverence and respect for the other beings with whom we share our planet. Through decades of advocacy on behalf of chimpanzees, worldwide wildlife, and animals in captive facilities, Dr. Goodall and JGI have fundamentally improved life […]
Microcredit Programs Empower and Improve Women’s Well-being
Kisinza Mzee Ibrahim is a 48-year-old single mother of two and a resident of Kalalangabo village in western Tanzania. She is also a volunteer community health worker (CHW) with LCWT. Like many in Kalalangabo, Ibrahim is a fishmonger at the village market. Fish sellers often struggle during low catch seasons and face financial difficulties due […]
Scholarships Secure Success for the Future
Worldwide, gender-based educational gaps in countries like Tanzania are typically caused by financial or other social barriers, including poverty and lack of reproductive healthcare access. When girls are given access to education, the whole community benefits for years to come and conservation threats are diminished. That’s why JGI has been providing scholarships to girls in […]
Women in DRC Come Together to Innovate Alternatives to Selling Wild Meat
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a biodiversity hotspot which contains an essential population of chimpanzees and critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas. JGI is the co-coordinator of the Eastern DRC Conservation Action Plan and has been driving collaborative action towards shared goals alongside participating NGOs, government officials, and community members for years. As part of the work […]
Community-Led Conservation: New Insights and Impact in Guinea and Burundi
Following in our founder’s footsteps, the Jane Goodall Institute has always acted based on the knowledge that people, non-human animals, and the environment are connected. Our approach to conservation is community-led, which means that we work with local communities to empower sustainable development and conservation decision-making, which improves well-being for people, the environment, and wildlife. Across the chimpanzee range, […]
Compost Training Builds Farmers’ Ability to Improve Soil and Protect Habitats
Deforestation for agriculture is the biggest threat to chimpanzee habitat in the western Tanzanian landscape. Through the USAID-funded Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania project (LCWT), JGI focuses on finding sustainable alternatives to agricultural forest-clearing for farmers. Riverine forests in the region are a critical habitat for chimpanzees, other biodiversity, and healthy watersheds. Since low soil […]
Planting Seeds of Hope in Uganda: Mr. Mujuni Godfrey
At the 2020 World Economic Forum, Dr. Goodall announced her commitment to the Trillion Tree campaign of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) of contributing five million trees (by protection, planting, and/or restoration) through JGI and partnerships. From forests to the individual tree, plants are the “root” of our planet’s health and survival. Trees and other plants have […]
Standing Together While Apart: Youth Action During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged each of us in ways that we couldn’t have expected; schools were shut down, programs were canceled, and young people everywhere had to find new ways of standing up together for what they believe in. We are so proud of our Roots & Shoots members for showing their adaptability during these strange times by continuing to […]
Gombe Today: Understanding Our Closest Living Relatives
Research activities, like other aspects of life, were not spared by the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Gombe Stream Research Center had to limit research in order to ensure the safety of staff and wildlife alike. Unfortunately, as the Gombe team was also dealing with a separate respiratory disease outbreak from earlier in 2020, some staff remained under […]
