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PANTHOOT2014
A Winter Update for Our Friends and Supporters
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2014
Accomplishment
Highlights
Leveraged online
technologies to train more
than 2,000 educators around
the world on the Roots &
Shoots programss unique
model of service learning.
Forest Monitors
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.
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF THE
CONGO
In the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, JGI works in
habitats that are shared
by chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.
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.
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.
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