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the Jane Goodall Institute

PANTHOOT2014
A Winter Update for Our Friends and Supporters

A Message from Jane


This year has been amazing for me
and the Jane Goodall Institute. I write
you today with deep gratitude for your
friendship and support. I am delighted
to share with you an update on our
progress in 2014 progress you helped
to make possible.
As you know, chimpanzees remain
at the heart of our work. Fewer than
300,000 of these amazing beings
remain in the wild. This is alarming
for many reasons. Chimpanzees are
an important indicator species. When
chimpanzees are healthy, we know that
the forests are healthy, water is clean
and that surrounding communities are
stable.
The loss of so many chimpanzees tells
us a great deal about the overall health
of their habitat and the surrounding
regions.

No matter how much progress we


make in the areas where chimpanzees
live, we also know that all of this wont
last unless we change the way that we
think about our world.
Our Roots & Shoots program inspires
young people to understand their
communities and to take action to
address the problems they see. As
these young people mature and
become leaders, they will make better
decisions for their communities and for
the world we all share.
In the following pages, you will find a
brief overview of some of this years
key initiatives. I hope they will inspire
you to continue to make a difference
every day.
Thank you for the difference you are
making with your support of our work.

Whats Inside






Updates from the Field


Peer Education: Friend in Need
New Arrival: Willy
From the Ground to the Cloud
Mandrill Birth in the Forest
Learners Into Leaders
Leaders Today

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Ullenge, one of the more than 150


chimpanzees living at the Tchimpounga
Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the
Republic of Congo was one of the first to
be relocated to the expansion site on three
pristine islands in the Kouilou River.

2014
Accomplishment
Highlights

Expanded the Tchimpounga


sanctuary to three islands
on the nearby Kouilou
River. Now, 32 rehabilitated
chimpanzees living there can
feel the forest leaves under
their feet and eat wild fruits
to their hearts delight.

Played a key role in the


launch of Global Forest
Watch, a worldwide habitat
monitoring tool that puts
information directly in the
hands of local land-owners
and JGIs own conservation
scientists.

Leveraged online
technologies to train more
than 2,000 educators around
the world on the Roots &
Shoots programss unique
model of service learning.

Primary School Opening

Forest Monitors

Health Clinic Opening

Yoko Released Into His New Island Home

Village Forest Reserves

Update from the Field

Safeguarding Great Apes and the Landscapes We All Need


The work of the Jane Goodall Institute
remains centered on protecting
chimpanzees in their natural habitat.
Chimpanzees are also an important
indicator species. When chimpanzees are
healthy, we know that the forests they and
other wildlife share and the rivers they
drink from are also healthy. This also tells
us that the communities surrounding these
forests and rivers are doing well and living
in harmony with nature.
This is especially important for the forests
and rivers of the Congo Basin where
the majority of the worlds remaining
chimpanzees live. The Congo Basin is also
home to one-half of Africas remaining
elephants, more than 1,000 species of
birds, 400 species of mammals and more
than 900 species of butterflies.

REPUBLIC OF THE
CONGO
As part of Janes 80th
birthday wish, JGI set out
to transfer chimpanzees
living at the Tchimpounga
Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center to three
islands in the nearby Kouliou River. These
islands are part of a sanctuary expansion
providing a safe, natural habitat for most of
the sanctuarys rehabilitated chimpanzees.
The Tchimpounga sanctuary is an important
part of our efforts to fight the illegal
bushmeat trade without the sanctuary,
law enforcement officers would have no
place to send rescued animals.

In 2014, 32 chimpanzees were moved


to Tchibebe and Tchindzoulou Islands.
Eventually, an additional nine chimpanzees
will be moved to Tchibebe. Sixty
chimpanzees will live on Tchindzoulou after
construction is completed on the island in
2015. Construction on Ngombe Island is
scheduled to be completed in early 2015, at
which point 30 chimpanzees will begin their
move to the island. Also under construction
in 2015 will be a base camp comprised of
staff accommodations, veterinary medical
and administrative buildings, as well as
food, equipment and fuel storage.
In addition to providing care and shelter
to rescued chimpanzees, JGI also works
to increase awareness of the importance
of protecting Congos wildlife and lush
forest corridors in the face of development
pressures and population growth. Part of
our strategy is to increase public awareness
of the protected status of chimpanzees
through billboards. In 2014, JGI installed
35 billboards, bringing our total to 60
billboards across Congo. Survey data
collected this year shows that awareness of
the plight of chimpanzees increased from
five percent to as high as 55 percent.

DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF THE
CONGO
In the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, JGI works in
habitats that are shared
by chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.

In these landscapes, we focus on the


priority needs of the local population that
can have the most immediate positive
impact on these great apes and their
habitats. This includes improving the
health care and education infrastructure to
improve well-being and increasing access
to potable water to reduce the risk of
disease transmission. JGI is also focused
on reducing the consumption of bushmeat
and poaching through access to food
alternatives and to sustainable livelihoods.
In 2014, three schools, furnished and
equipped with learning materials, were
inaugurated. Three previously constructed
health facilities were equipped with
operating and gynecological tables, medical
kits, solar panels and other health care
supplies. By training 58 community-based
health workers, 15,240 individuals received
information on the benefits and availability
of family planning, helping to slow the
rate of population growth. To help reduce
pressure on the forests, 99,500 seedlings
were distributed to community members
and follow-up support was received by
400 households who previously received
4,640 fruit trees. Two water sources
were protected, bringing the total to 13.
Combined, these protected springs provide
clean and potable water to over 30,000
people.
To combat the lack of understanding
about the great apes, JGI replicated our
public awareness campaign to inform
communities about the protected status

of great apes and the consequences of


violating the laws protecting them. To date,
36 billboards were installed and radio
spots that reached 250,000 people aired.
Within the first two weeks of the campaign,
authorities rescued three orphaned
chimpanzees from individuals responding
to the messages.
Working with our partners, Congolese
park and wildlife personnel were trained
in basic great ape monitoring and survey
techniques. To date, 347 gorilla and 193
chimpanzee nests have been documented
and a previously undocumented population
of gorillas was also found. Congolese
personnel successfully rescued five gorillas
and assisted in the rescue of one new
orphaned Grauers gorilla from poachers.
This year, in an existing sanctuary, JGI
assisted in the construction of a forested
enclosure for five adult male chimpanzees,
all of whom are older than 18 and have
spent the majority of their lives in captivity.

UGANDA
Much of JGIs work in
Uganda focused on the
280,000 acres of essential
wildlife migratory corridors
between the Budongo and
Bugoma Central Forest Reserves where
increasing fragmentation of the landscape
is reducing connectivity between forest
reserves and the larger chimpanzee
populations, threatening the long-term
viability of the chimpanzees and the
ecosystem services on which people
depend on.
Working with the local communities,
JGI facilitated the creation of 15 private
forest owner associations, representing
1,548 private forest owners, who are
learning to manage over 40,000 acres
of private forest. In addition, 250,000
seedlings were cultivated and planted by
over 300 households and 6.4 km of the
Bugoma-Wambabya corridor restored,
ensuring forest rehabilitation through
natural regeneration and active planting of
indigenous trees.
Within the Budongo-Bugoma corridor,
the annual deforestation rate has been
reduced from 5.1 percent in 2010 to 2.5
percent in 2013 by building the capacity
and governance needed by private forest

Tchimpoungas Newest
Arrival.. willy
Confiscated from the exotic pet
trade by public officials, this little
chimpanzee is now being cared
for by JGIs expert sanctuary staff.
With their care he is adjusting well
and enjoying his new life with the
more than 150 other chimpanzees
who call the sanctuary home.

owners and community groups to access


carbon payments and incentives to reduce
emissions by stopping deforestation and
climate change.
Eco-tourism is another strategy that
proved successful at safeguarding key
chimpanzee habitat. A 21-mile trail system
was extended within the forest reserve,
offering good views of forest primates and
other wildlife. As a result, the chimpanzee
viewing success rate at the site improved
and there were more visitors and increased
revenues from tracking fees. In addition,
community members who previously
derived their main source of income
from subsistence farming now have an
alternative or supplementary source of
income from tourism based employment.

TANZANIA
In recent years much of
JGIs focus in Tanzania has
been in the Gombe Masito
Ugalla (GMU) Ecosystem,
an area that totals 2.9
million acres and is home to elephants and
chimpanzees. The biggest threats to the
GMU in 2014 are the in-migration of sheep
and cattle farmers, the unsustainable
use of forest resources, and agricultural
practices that result in forest loss.
To combat these threats, JGI worked with
the local villages to increase household
incomes through sustainable use of
natural resources and environmentally
friendly agricultural practices guided by
49 village land use plans that were created
collaboratively. A recent survey of villagers
showed that 71 percent recognize the
critical role and influence of these plans in
achieving improved resource management.
An important milestone was the
establishment of two local authority forest
reserves (LAFRs) managing a total 1.2
million acres of land. The LAFRs promote
tree planting and agroforestry which
provide access to alternative sources of
wood and improved farming practices.
A total of 99,014 seedlings from village
nurseries were planted in woodlots,
agroforestry plots and around homes.
Reducing demand on the forest and
improving well-being was achieved through
the construction of fuel saving stoves that
15,800 households are now using.

Mission
IN FOCUS
A Friend in Need:
Jerline & Lilian
Both Jerline and
Lilian come from
the Moyo District in
northern Uganda,
where a staggering
80% of girls are
forced to drop
out of school, the
highest female
dropout rate in the entire nation.
The area also boasts a forest habitat
which is home to a population of wild
chimpanzees.
Jerline is a Peer Educator trained by
JGI, and says that our Peer to Peer
Education project has made her more
confident in her ability to handle lifes
challenges and helped her on her way
to finishing her primary education. She
has become not only a model student
in her community, but also a young
woman that her peers can look up to.
One of the girls who looks up to Jerline
is Jerlines friend, Lilian.
Lilian was forced to drop out of
school after the death of her father
put significant financial strains on her
family. Once she reached puberty,
Lilian was unable to afford the simple
materials such as underwear and
sanitary pads that she needed to
continue going to school.

Lilian spoke to her Peer Edcuator


friend Jerline about these difficulties,
and soon JGI was able to get Lilian
back in school by supplying her with
the resources she needed to continue
her education. Helping young girls
like Lilian finish their education is
absolutely critical if JGI is to improve
the lives of communities in Africa and
preserve the chimpanzee habitats
nearby.

from the Ground to the cloud

Applying Science & Technology to Amplify our Impact


JGI is applying technology to take our
conservation efforts to scale. Since 2009
in Tanzania, more than 90 village forest
monitors from 52 villages within the
Gombe-Masito-Ugalla ecosystem have
been trained in the use of Open Data Kit
data collection application, running on
smartphones and tablets.
The on-the-ground data points gathered by
the forest monitors are used in concert with
satellite imagery to inform conservation
planning, decision-making and monitoring.
It puts information previously available

2005

Home Sweet Forest ..


Mandrill Birth
following release
JGIs team at Tchimpounga has
now released 13 mandrills back
into the wild. Like chimpanzees,
mandrills are critically
endangered. Following her release
this year, Dominique gave birth
to her first baby in the wild. JGIs
team has continued monitoring
them and they are doing well.

only to elite scientists and academics


in the hands of community members,
local elected officials and small-scale
landowners.
By democratizing the access to this data,
we are empowering communities to make
informed decisions about how they use
their land and how they safeguard their
natural resources to ensure that their
children will have a better future.
Dr. Lilian Pintea, our lead scientist, is
recognized for his expertise in applying

technology to increase conservation impact


recently led an effort to include crowdsourced information in a globally accessible
forest monitoring program run by Global
Forest Watch.
Working closely with partners our partners,
Dr. Pintea took his experience working
directly with forest monitors to create a
uniform system for acquiring and coding
the information. The system was debuted
at the World Parks Congress in Sydney,
Australia, in November.

2013

Hope for Gombe

Community Centered Care Brings


Return of Forests

Pictured above is a view of Kigalye Village


Forest Reserve near Gombe National Park
in Tanzania as detected by 2005 and 2013
GeoEye satellite imagery (Source Google
Earth, DigitalGlobe and the Jane Goodall
Institute). These images show how JGIs
long term dedication to the communities
around Gombe is helping bring back the
forests, protect the land and regrow critical
habitat chimpanzees need to survive.

Learners into LEaders

The Next Generation Taking on Janes Legacy


Roots & Shoots groups are active in more
than 130 countries across the globe.
Young people identify issues in their
communities and work with their friends
to address them. These efforts play out
differently, child by child and community
by community. But, taken together, these
tens of thousands of individual efforts are
making real change in the way the next
generation understands their ability to
make the world a better place.

no-cost course offered teachers continuing


education credit and was open to anyone
who wished to participate. Thousands of
educators, parents and youth leaders from
all across the world signed up for the initial
offering. The course was highly rated by
participants. We look forward to reporting
back to you on the impact of this offering in
our spring 2015 Update.

identify the key features of their community


and to map out areas where they see issues
for people, animals and the environment.

In July of 2014, Roots & Shoots launched a


massive open online course (MOOC). This

In 2014, in addition to mapping their


community on paper, young people had the
option to map their community digitally.
The mapping experience enables youth to

Once the issues are mapped, the young


people work together to prioritize them.
They select one issue at a time to address
and then formulate a solution that will
improve the situation. They work as a team
to implement the solution and to share
their findings and approach with others.
Then, if they choose, the young people can
go on to the next issue they identified in the
mapping process.

High School for Excellence and Innovat.


New York, NY

Cracker Trail Elementary


Sebring, Florida

John Muir Middle School


Los Angeles, CA

As a part of learning about human impact


on marine wildlife, students installed
two oyster cages in the Inwood Marina
Restaurant coastal waters to study
water quality, oyster reproduction and
growth rates. The students also made a
documentary film on how plastic pollution
has impacted the coastal waters and
habitats causing indigestion, strangling, and
other challenges for marine wildlife.

A group of first graders educated the


community about safely sharing the
environment with black bears. The group
calls themselves The Neigh-BEAR-hood
Watch Kids and kicked off their Be Bear
Aware campaign by hosting an event
during an annual school gathering.
Students wore homemade bear visors and
t-shirts with their campaign message, Dont
Feed Bears.

Students recognized that litter was a


major problem in their community and
interviewed other community members
about their opinions on litter. Students
decided that one way to change attitudes
about litter was to hold an environmental
fair where they would invite the community
to engage in activities on sustainability and
learn about what they can do to green up
urban South Los Angeles.

Leaders Today

The high school and college members


of the 2014 U.S. Roots & Shoots NYLC
are expertly trained to be the youth
voice of JGI and work hard to support
our programs and help contribute to the
organizations success while also leading
projects in their communities. Here are a
few examples:

Young Mentors Engaging the Broader


Roots & Shoots Network

Raquel from Connecticut Skyped into


a fourth grade classroom in Florida
to introduce Roots & Shoots, answer
questions about Dr. Jane, and motivate
students with stories about the
impressive differences she has made in
her community with Roots & Shoots and
how they can begin to make differences
in their world today.

The internationally acclaimed palm oil


campaign of Madi and Rhiannon who
are both from Michigan, is now featured
in a new exhibit at the Simon Skjodt
International Orangutan Center at the
Indianapolis Zoo.
Anthony from New York used his Roots
& Shoots training to take his antischool violence petition with over 1,000
signatures to the NY City Council and
testified for the creation of a resolution
to implement peer-to-peer mentoring in
NYC schools. Anthony also represented
Roots & Shoots with a moving speech
about bullying at the UN International
Day of Peace Celebrations in September.

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