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The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is a global non-profit wildlife and environment conservation organization headquartered in Washington, DC. [1] It was founded in 1977 by English primatologist Jane Goodall and Genevieve di San Faustino (1919-2011). [2] The institute's mission is to improve the treatment and understanding of primates through ...
The Trimates. The Trimates, [1][2] sometimes called Leakey's Angels, [3] is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, [4] and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, respectively.
The Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden, commonly referred to as Chimp Eden, is situated within a 1,000 ha (2,500 acres) game reserve and animal sanctuary for rescued chimpanzees, in the Umhloti Nature Reserve, near Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Opened in 2006 by founder and director Eugene Cussons, in collaboration with the Jane ...
The Jane Goodall Institute, which works to protect chimpanzees and their habitat, will receive 60% of the proceeds. There are currently 31 images for sale, as part of “The Nature of Hope: ...
In 1977, the activist founded the Jane Goodall Institute to help mobilize the movement, and since then has tirelessly traveled the world over in hopes of bringing about change and inspiring new ...
Jane Goodall, pictured in 2019. The 90-year-old zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist is regarded as the foremost expert on chimpanzees in the world, still travels almost every day of the ...
The Tchimpounga Sanctuary, also known as the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center, for primates is located on a coastal plain of savanna and forest in the Republic of the Congo, and was built in 1992. The site covers an area of 70 square kilometres (27 sq mi). [1] The sanctuary, part of the Jane Goodall Institute, [2] is located 50 km ...
Roots & Shoots was founded in 1991 when Dr. Goodall started giving talks at local schools in Tanzania. A group of 12 of her students, selected by their classmates, met with Goodall at her home to discuss their local environmental concerns and figure out what they could do to help. [8] These 12 students became the first members of Roots & Shoots ...