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to advance the power of individuals to


take informed and compassionate action to
improve the environment for all living things.

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“Wouldn’t it be terrible if our closest relatives disappeared during our watch?


It doesn’t have to happen. The key is to understand that a viable future for wild
chimpanzees can’t be achieved without helping the struggling human communities
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around them. And, that long-term change in Africa and elsewhere won’t happen
without engaging youth. These connections are at the heart of JGI’s work on behalf
of people, animals and the environment.”
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE,
ONE LIFE AT A TIME

FOR THREE DECADES, WE HAVE EMPOWERED PEOPLE TO TAKE INFORMED AND


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COMPASSIONATE ACTION TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL LIVING THINGS —
HELPING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR COUNTLESS GENERATIONS TO COME.

THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE MISSION:

to advance the power of individuals to


take informed and compassionate action to
improve the environment for all living things.

WWW . JANEGOODALL . ORG

“Wouldn’t it be terrible if our closest relatives disappeared during our watch?


It doesn’t have to happen. The key is to understand that a viable future for wild
chimpanzees can’t be achieved without helping the struggling human communities
2007 JGI ANNUAL REPORT
around them. And, that long-term change in Africa and elsewhere won’t happen
without engaging youth. These connections are at the heart of JGI’s work on behalf
of people, animals and the environment.”
FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH , EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
— Jane Goodall
2007 JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT SAVED THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES BY USING NEW LEAF RENICARNATION 100 ( FSC ) ,
MANUFACTURED WITH ELECTRICITY OFFSET BY GREEN - E ® CERTIFIED RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES , 100% POST- CONSUMER WASTE ,
AND PROCESSED CHLORINE FREE : 58 FULLY GROWN TREES , 25,046 GALLONS OF WATER , 42 MILLION BTUS OF ENERGY, 2,801 POUNDS
OF SOLID WASTE , AND 5,463 POUNDS OF GREENHOUSE GASES .

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Greetings from Australia. As most of you son Fudge, who was stripping bark from ngoi JGI’s “footprint” is expanding every year. One beach in Chennai, working with the Roots &
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know, I spend some 300 days a year travelling, vines to chew on the pith; and Frodo — no of our biggest successes in 2007 was introducing Shoots members who are protecting endangered
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and as I write this, I am staying in the Governor’s longer alpha male, but looking magnificent again our TACARE program to villages in the eastern sea turtles. An artist had created the most
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I’ve been to Perth, Alice Springs and Adelaide. world has been watching film of the Gombe in an effort to protect a forested corridor between laying her eggs and baby turtles making their way
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People often ask me where I find the energy to chimpanzees for almost 50 years, ever since my two national parks that harbor many gorillas to the sea. Young people there also are educating
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keep up such a crazy schedule! It’s because of first husband, Hugo van Lawick, captured footage and chimpanzees. villagers about the importance of conservation.
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the amazing people I meet who are working to These kinds of successes are due to the hard This is exactly the kind of grass roots response
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of chimpanzees using and making tools, hunting


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make a better world. Especially the youth involved and eating meat, raising offspring. It changed the work of staff in Africa and all over the world. I we are seeing in Africa, and it is wonderful to see
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in our Roots & Shoots program. Manoj Gautam way people thought about animals, helped us to founded JGI in 1977 to support the research at it spreading! (We were told later that 36 registered
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and his group in Nepal, for example, go through Gombe, and JGI has achieved so much since R&S groups sprung up after my visit.)
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realize there is no sharp line dividing humans


the United States to represent Roots & Shoots and take part in the CHRISTIN JONES / THE
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rebel-held territory weekly to teach reading and then. We celebrated our 30th anniversary with two As you may know, every year I observe the UN
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event. The in-store program generated a $25 donation to Roots &
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writing to children who are forced to work in eco-friendly celebrations (one in LA, one in DC) International Day of Peace. In 2007, I celebrated
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This past year we received wonderful news


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able to reach a new audience with a key Roots & Shoots message —
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October 28 and November 7, 2007. Through this exposure, we were
coal mines. They are seeking to give these related to Gombe. The Jay Pritzker Foundation that included the inaugural Jane Goodall Institute twice — once in New York with newly appointed
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children tools to escape poverty and its stigma. awarded JGI a three-year grant to expand our Global Leadership Awards, honoring former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and once in
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Their courage is inspiring, and their dedication TACARE program in western Tanzania. president of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa, the Los Angeles. Accompanied by more than 25
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is the sort I see in Roots & Shoots youth all Masito-Ugalla is south of the Greater Gombe Honorable Patrick Leahy, Ted Turner, our Roots & Shoots groups, I joined a parade of 45
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over the world. Ecosystem, where JGI partners with villages to steadfast corporate partner Patagonia, and our Giant Peace Doves in Griffith Park. We reflected
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first Roots & Shoots Youth Fellow, Chase on the universal human yearning for peace and
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Pickering. what we can do together to bring that about.


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Although the challenges seem daunting at times, this is the only way was a new brand of coffee called Gombe Reserve. This coffee upholds
people seemed to wake up to the urgency of our in the year — too many to include here. The most
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all of Green Mountain’s fair trade standards and also bears the
environmental problems. I will never forget important thing I can say now is that your
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speaking before 80,000 people during the Live support is what makes our success possible.
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People always want to hear the latest news create environmentally sustainable livelihoods and Earth concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Whether it is a young chimpanzee who has a
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about the Gombe chimpanzees — and there are restore the forest for chimpanzees and humans After I gave a chimp greeting and spoke for my second chance at a happy life in our sanctuary,
habitat areas. It provides farmers an incentive to preserve the forest TOP: M. NELSON / THE COURTESY PAT BECK
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always new stories to tell. For example, alike. In the Masito-Ugalla area there are relatively allotted three minutes, I asked the audience: a child who joins Roots & Shoots and finds an
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chimpanzee Gaia’s attempts to rear a child have “Up in the north, the ice is melting — what will it outlet for his or her desire to create a better
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been thwarted twice — Gaia’s mother Gremlin take to melt the ice in the human heart?” world, or an African village that is planting trees
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stole her first baby (who later died) and Gaia’s overcrowding that has afflicted the Gombe area. During 2007 I traveled throughout Asia, seeing and starting small, sustainable businesses, we are
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second baby was stillborn. We don’t know yet The Tanzanian government is an important firsthand not only the terrible environmental truly changing lives. Although the challenges
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why Gremlin took the first baby, but it is partner in our conservation, development and devastation but also the efforts to raise seem daunting at times, this is the only way to
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community development program in Guinea, West Africa. With Alcoa’s

mysteries of this sort that make the study so education efforts. In September, JGI held a conservation awareness. I took part in a R&S make lasting change — one life at a time. From
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fascinating. It’s sad that I’m only able to visit youth summit in Beijing, and in Nepal I the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping
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dinner in New York for Tanzanian President


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Gombe twice a year, but to spend time sitting by Jakaya Kikwete, a true statesman whom I hold in experienced an unforgettable tree planting us to reach out to so many people and to help so
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that most spiritual place, the Kakombe Waterfall, high personal esteem. As I sat beside him, we ceremony that incorporated the chanting of many animals.
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or up on “the Peak,” takes me right back to the Hindu priests. It was a wedding celebration — for
communities. Businesses developed included restoration of
talked about his ambitious development policies
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early ’60s. The years drop away and I recapture to combat poverty whilst improving the the trees! In Singapore, I was overwhelmed by a With my love,
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the absolute joy I knew as a 26-year-old exploring environment. He told me he would like to be “wildlife stampede,” when more than 700 youth
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a magic new world. remembered as the president who protected and costumed as endangered plants and animals
Often I spend my time at Gombe with a film restored his land. paraded to raise conservation awareness.
team. Recently an Animal Planet crew was able to I had a few amazingly busy days in India —
film several chimpanzees at length: Gremlin and visiting New Delhi, Kolcutta, Mumbai and Jane Goodall
her twins feeding in a palm tree; Fanni and her Chennai. I spent a fabulous afternoon on the
TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROTECTING CHIMPANZEES
Gombe Stream Research Center 6
Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center 8
Chimpanzee Profile: Kudia 10
Legislative Relief for Chimpanzees 11
Staff Spotlight: Lilian Pintea 12

CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITIES


Masito-Ugalla Ecosystem Project 18
Ecotourism in Uganda 20
Village Hydroelectricity Project 22
Chimpanzee Conservation and Sensitization Program 24

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH


Youth Leadership Initiative 28
The Roots & Shoots Digital Arts Program 30
Reach Out, Act, Respond — R.O.A.R. 31
Roots & Shoots Animal Advocacy 32
Jane News 34

FINANCIAL REPORT AND DONORS


JGI 2007 Financial Report 36
Ways to Give 40
JGI’s Donor Family 42
JGI-USA Boards & Senior Staff 54
JGI Worldwide Offices 55
Donor Profile: Marjorie Ferguson Lambert 56

FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP …


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A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE

The People
behind our
Progress

If you have been following my blog, Running continent for a week that changed their lives forever
Comment, it will come as no surprise that I am and will have ripple effects, we believe and hope,
extremely proud of the JGI team. for the world.
The exceptional dedication and competence This is just some of the work we did in 2007
that characterizes JGI today began nearly to help us achieve our primary goals of preserving
50 years ago, with Jane herself and the people chimpanzees, working in partnership with
she chose to help her at Gombe in Tanzania. communities to promote conservation and
As I reflect on the year and think about the sustainable development, and empowering a
strides we made in 2007, I see that history new generation of inspired and effective young
repeating itself: incredibly talented people, activists and leaders.
following in Jane’s footsteps. People often ask me who will succeed Jane.
Behind every one of the success stories in this No one person can. But seeing the energy and talent
report, there are great people.
The dramatic expansion of our TACARE
program into the Masito-Ugalla landscape has
been driven by the extraordinary leadership of
on our team makes me confident that the people of
JGI — staff, volunteers, friends and supporters —
will be able to carry on Jane’s work and achieve her
vision for decades into the future.
About Us
Emil Kayega, who cares passionately about The Jane Goodall Institute advances the power of individuals
defining a better future for the region. to take informed and compassionate action to improve the
The Chimp Haven is Home Act might never
environment for all living things. We continue Dr. Goodall’s
have passed without the tireless, knowledgeable Sincerely,
pioneering efforts to understand and protect chimpanzees,
efforts of Alex Thornton, our vice president of
public policy. and are widely recognized for linking conservation and
In the war zone of Eastern Congo, Dario development in projects that emphasize community
Merlo has managed to bring hydropower to a Bill Johnston participation and ownership. Likewise, our youth programs
village far from the electric grid, despite repeated, President foster change by empowering young people to act as
often heartbreaking setbacks. environmental and humanitarian leaders and stewards.
Using incredible organizational skills and JGI’s
particular brand of can-do spirit, our small
national Roots & Shoots team is creating the
premier youth leadership event for young people.
Our first annual Jane Goodall Global Youth
Summit — which we will talk more about in
next year’s annual report — succeeded in
attracting 100 young leaders from every

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Protecting Chimpanzees
Protecting chimpanzees is at the heart of JGI’s work, reflecting
Jane Goodall’s historic legacy. We continue the Gombe
chimpanzee study the world knows so well, seeking to advance
our understanding of chimpanzees and help inform conservation
efforts. JGI also works to safeguard chimpanzees by protecting
habitat, influencing legislation and rescuing and rehabilitating
young chimpanzees orphaned as a result of the bushmeat trade.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:

Gombe Stream
Research Center
Research at JGI’s Gombe Stream Research
JGI IN ACTION
Center sheds light on the fascinating lives of
What we are
chimpanzees and unfolds exciting possibilities doing:
for future study. Scientists continue
to bring the story of
Since 1960, when Jane Goodall pioneered Gombe’s chimps to
the public, even as
research of wild chimpanzees, Gombe National
they unfold new
Park in Tanzania has been the site of scientific areas of inquiry.
inquiry related not only to chimpanzee behavior Why is it
and biology but to conservation as well. important?
These efforts
Since those early days, a synthesis of the life of further our
wild chimpanzees has gradually emerged — one understanding of
our closest relatives
rich with possibilities for future study. But while
in the wild and
Jane conducted her research with little more than inform efforts to
a pencil, notebook and binoculars, today’s save this
endangered
researchers have the benefit of sophisticated species.
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technological tools. For example, they use Global TO DATE, THE INFANTS BORNE THE LONG-TERM STUDY
BY GAIA , SHOWN HERE, HAVE AT GOMBE BEGAN WITH
Positioning System handsets, Geographic NOT SURVIVED A FULL YEAR. JANE GOODALL’S
PIONEERING WORK.
Information System software, and satellite
imagery to map chimp ranges and foraging
patterns. They also use new noninvasive sample
menopause is unique among the living apes and Another critical study at Gombe is that of Dr. family dynasty that includes his mother, Fifi, and
collection and laboratory methods to measure
provides an evolutionary context for understanding Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama. Her grandmother, Flo. In fact, almost every adult male
hormones, identify and monitor infections such
human reproductive patterns. internationally recognized research seeks to in that family has been Alpha at some point. It would
as SIVcpz (a virus similar to HIV), as well as
Another study conducted by Thompson, understand the natural history of HIV by looking at not be surprising to see the Alpha position land back
analyze DNA to confirm paternity and other
published in the American Journal of Primatology factors causing transmission of the closely related squarely in the family of the late Fifi and Flo.
genetic relationships.
(Vol. 70), shed light on cases of childlessness in simian immunodeficiency virus. The most astonishing tale of recent months
Because disease is a major cause of death
among the Gombe chimpanzees, health chimpanzees. She discovered that one of the fruits THE GOMBE CHIMPS
concerns Gremlin’s family. In 2006, she took her
monitoring of the chimpanzee population is the in the chimpanzees’ diet, Vitex fischeri, seems to Gombe is made up of three communities: daughter Gaia’s first infant, rearing him as a twin
highest priority. JGI conducts this major research cause high levels of progesterone. A coincident Mitumba, Kalande and Kasekela. The central with her own son, but sadly, he weakened and died,
effort in collaboration with the Lincoln Park Zoo finding about baboons in Nigeria suggests that Kasekela Community — which has been the focus perhaps because he missed out on the disease-
and Tanzanian veterinarian Jane Raphael. eating Vitex causes a decrease in reproduction. The of Jane Goodall’s studies for nearly 50 years — fighting benefits of his mother’s colostrum fluid (the
In 2007, scientists at Gombe explored a field is now wide open to examine what effects continues to bear infants and grow in number. The antibiotic-rich milk produced during early infancy).
variety of subjects. Harvard University’s Melissa Vitex and other hormone-like compounds might two more marginal communities were not thriving Gombe staff waited with bated breath to see what
Emery Thompson and colleagues including have on breeding. Such investigations into the in 2007, however, leading the overall chimpanzee would happen with Gaia’s next birth. Unfortunately,
Jane Goodall and Dr. Anne Pusey, head reproduction and biology inform efforts to ensure population in Gombe to increase only gradually. Gaia’s second infant was stillborn.
of JGI’s Center for Primate Studies, analyzed chimpanzee survival. Since Frodo became severely ill in 2006, the male Gaia should be pregnant again soon. If you’re
reproductive data to conclude that chimpanzees Also in 2007, researcher Emily Wroblewski chimpanzees at Gombe have been struggling for the interested in following her story and the lives of
may not experience the extended postreproductive continued her study of paternal relationships, Alpha position, with much displaying and some the Gombe chimpanzees, please check the Gombe
period that women do. Nearly half of all wild seeking to determine if paternal relatives have special fighting. In late 2007, young Ferdinand wounded Chimpanzee Blog, linked from janegoodall.org.
female chimpanzees who live past the age of 40 relationships, avoiding fights, for example, or if Kris and now seems to be one of the more You can take a virtual flight over Gombe, soar
continue to bear offspring. The study, published males will avoid mating with related females. dominant chimpanzees and possibly next in line to down into the treetops, and see the park in
in Current Biology (Vol. 17), suggests that human Wroblewski gave the public unprecedented virtual be pre-eminent. He is a relaxed and confident colorful detail. 
access to life at Gombe through regular postings to chimpanzee, and comes from an impressive ruling
the Gombe Chimpanzee Blog.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:

Tchimpounga Chimpanzee
Rehabilitation Center JGI IN ACTION
JGI provides a safe haven for orphan What we are doing:
chimpanzees in Africa’s largest ape sanctuary. Caring for orphaned
chimpanzees in a
newly expanded
sanctuary that also
serves as a center
Every year poachers in the Congo Basin In 2007, to accommodate the unanticipated pace of for local conservation
kill thousands of chimpanzees as part of the growth and provide better accommodations and care education and
activities.
illegal bushmeat trade. Typically, the hunters to the resident chimps — many of whom have
Why is it
spare the lives of the smallest, confiscating reached adulthood — JGI embarked on an extensive important?
them and selling them as pets despite laws expansion and renovation effort. The new and Tragically, the
illegal commercial
forbidding such trade. improved Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation bushmeat industry
JGI works to end the illegal commercial Center includes: continues to take
bushmeat trade through education and awareness • Two new dormitories and enclosures that a serious toll on
already endangered
programs, community-centered conservation provide expanded living and sleeping space chimpanzees.
activities including development of alternate for the chimpanzees
sources of protein, and policy efforts. But, until • A new, secure vet lab that has chimpanzee-proof
demand for bushmeat subsides, illegal hunting windows and doors and an auxiliary door to
will continue. To help the youngest victims — safely bring chimpanzees in for treatment
the orphaned babies — JGI operates the
• A new food storage and prep area adjacent to
Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation
the main dormitory to create efficiency — cutting
Center, a safe haven in Pointe Noire, Congo,
the need for one person to be fully occupied
where orphans who government officials have LEFT:
transferring food from a remote building TCHIMPOUNGA CHIMPANZEES GET THE
IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO SOCIALIZE
WITH OTHER CHIMPANZEES AND TO PLAY.

JGI opened Tchimpounga in 1992. Originally designed to house and care for
60 chimpanzees, it now houses 139 — a sad sign of poaching’s toll in the region. Now that the Sanctuary’s infrastructure has been
upgraded, JGI will focus on expanding
Tchimpounga to include rehabilitation sites on
confiscated from the black market can get • A much-needed water system so that all of the
three Kouilou River islands. The islands offer a
needed care and attention. chimpanzees have continual access to drinking
major advantage — a controlled and optimally
JGI opened Tchimpounga in 1992. Originally water in their dorms and enclosures
secure environment, which is ideal for chimpanzees
designed to house and care for 60 chimpanzees, • Researcher housing and office space to and local communities alike. JGI also is
it now houses 139 — a sad sign of poaching’s toll accommodate the needs of visiting researchers investigating the feasibility of reintroducing
in the region. and JGI staff sanctuary chimpanzees into the wild. The islands
can better accommodate some of the older CONGO
chimpanzees who will never be able to join a full- POINTE NOIRE

LEFT: release program, while providing a pre-release space


for the younger chimpanzees. 
TCHIMPOUNGA
CHIMPANZEES ENJOY A
NEW DRINKING WATER
SYSTEM.

CENTER:
A NEW ARRIVAL
GETS A BATH.

RIGHT:
A NEW VETERINARY LAB
PROVIDES A SECURE
TREATMENT SPACE.

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CHIMPANZEE PROFILE: S U C C E S S S TO RY:

Meet Kudia Legislative relief


for Chimpanzees
This playful chimpanzee is one of JGI helps secure a more peaceful life
Tchimpounga’s newest residents. for research chimpanzees after the lab.

JGI’s newly established public policy arm helped


bring a welcome victory for research chimpanzees
late last year.
In December 2007, during JGI’s annual holiday
party, the staff received the best gift possible —
amidst appetizers and conversation came a text
message saying the US Congress had passed the
Chimp Haven is Home Act. The bill ensures that
LEFT: chimpanzees retired to a sanctuary after years of
KUDIA WAS NAMED FOR HER
APPETITE. medical research in government-funded facilities
TOP: won’t be returned to the labs.
KUDIA AND HER PAL ULTIMO.
The law was a response to rules that allowed
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STUDIES TO SEE IF
CHIMPANZEES LIKE KUDIA and put back into testing under certain
CAN BE REINTRODUCED TO
THE WILD. circumstances.
“This law is really the only responsible thing to
do for chimpanzees who’ve spent their lives in
medical research and been deprived of their
birthright — a life in the wild,” said Jane. “The
legislators who sponsored this bill and helped ensure
In 2007, Congolese authorities confiscated a return the phone, she teasingly took off in hopes of its passage should be commended for recognizing
sickly two-year-old orphan chimpanzee from a a game of chase. Luckily Kudia climbed a tree and, its importance.”
roadside seller and brought her to JGI’s apparently losing interest in that particular game, JGI’s public policy department, headed by
Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation dropped the phone into the bushes below. Alexandra Thornton, worked tirelessly to help close
Center in Pointe Noire. Like most new arrivals at Today Kudia maintains her healthy appetite, this loophole. “Now we can rest assured that
Tchimpounga, this chimpanzee was traumatized, although she eats more calmly, savoring her favorite chimpanzees retired from years of service in
malnourished, and not far from death. fruit, plantain. She spends her days playing, National Institutes of Health biomedical labs will
When the sanctuary caretakers let the little hugging and sleeping with her new best friends, spend the remainder of their days in the sanctuary,”
chimp out of her box and fed her, she was so Ulenge and Ultimo. said JGI President Bill Johnston. “It’s a great way to
hungry that she ate in a desperate rush, Ideally, Kudia would still be in the wild, eating, end the year.” 
consuming a huge amount. Her voracious sleeping and playing with her chimpanzee family
appetite quickly earned her the name “Kudia,” and social group. In fact, JGI is doing feasibility
which means “to eat” in the area lingua franca studies to determine if it’s practical and safe to
called Kituba. release some of our sanctuary chimps back into the TOP:

In the months to come, Kudia’s health forest via a formal reintroduction program. If so, JANE VISITS CAPITOL HILL REGULARLY
TO PROMOTE CHIMPANZEE
improved, her demeanor went from traumatized Kudia may someday retrieve that wild existence, her PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION.
CENTER:
to playful, and she quickly earned a reputation birthright. In the meantime, JGI is committed to NEW LEGISLATION ENSURES THAT
CHIMPANZEES RETIRED TO CHIMP
for being mischievous. Once, she stuck her hand giving chimpanzee orphans a happier second HAVEN IN LOUISIANA , SHOWN HERE,
WON’T BE RETURNED TO LABS .
in a caretaker’s pocket and pulled out his cell chapter — a healthy diet, care and nurturing, and,
BOTTOM:
phone. When the caretaker begged Kudia to most importantly, the opportunity to form bonds JGI’S VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC
POLICY ALEXANDRA THORNTON
with and learn from other chimpanzees.

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PROFILE:

JGI Director of Conservation


Lilian Pintea
A view from space helps conservation biologist
Lilian Pintea save chimpanzees.

Like Jane Goodall, Lilian Pintea’s dreams of capture information from space that is not available
traveling to Africa began at an early age, with the to the naked eye. Geographic Information System
turn of a page in a book. Where Jane traveled (GIS) software can integrate and analyze this
the ocean from England to begin her life’s information, as well as information from Global
adventure in Africa, Lilian took an even more Positioning Systems and other sources.
unusual route — from his home in the former “Satellite imagery has revolutionized the way we
Soviet republic of Moldova, through university collect habitat information. With remote sensing we LEFT:
LILIAN PINTEA DURING
studies in Moscow and on to postgraduate work can see forests at different scales, from the largest A TRIP TO SURVEY
CHIMPANZEE POPULATIONS
in Romania. forest blocs to the level of individual trees,” Lilian IN AN ECOSYSTEM SOUTH
OF GOMBE.
“I read Serengeti Shall Not Die (about a father explains. “And the technology keeps improving.
and son’s efforts to preserve the animals of the With new generations of satellite images we can
Serengeti), and it changed my life,” he says. support conservation efforts on the ground in much
“I dreamed of working in wildlife conservation notes and the ongoing long-term Gombe study. For Lilian, satellite imagery and GIS are just
greater detail than ever before. In the past, trees
in Africa.” “Using aerial photography from the 1960s and tools: his focus is helping chimpanzees and
were cut down in the middle of a remote forest
His first step toward that dream was an award- ‘70s and satellite imagery we were able to re-create people share the land. “In Gombe, JGI is
patch and we wouldn’t be aware of this change.
winning study on the morphology and ecology images of how forests were then and tell a story. striving to restore degraded land. In the Masito-
Now, we can see the farms, footpaths and new
of snakes indigenous to his region, which put Jane was thrilled when I showed her the images. Ugalla ecosystem (see page 18), we have an
infrastructure and develop a clearer picture of what
him on the path to academic studies at Moscow She was amazed to go back in time and see Gombe opportunity of a lifetime. Very few areas in
is happening on the ground. We can easily and
State University, majoring in zoology. There he forests from above.” Africa are so pristine, so our focus there is on
more rapidly assess the threats to chimpanzee
developed an interest in remote sensing — the Side-by-side comparisons and change detection dealing with the rapidly approaching threats.”
habitats.”
science of obtaining information about an object analysis show that the tree canopy density within Lilian points out that it’s a challenge
But knowledge gained the old-fashioned way,
using sensors placed on aircraft and satellites. Gombe National Park has actually increased, while balancing the different needs of chimps and
through face-to-face meetings, is an essential source
Although remote sensing was normally applied much of the forest outside has been lost to agriculture people. In some places education is needed so
of information as well. “Villagers can locate land
in geology, Pintea asked his advisors if he could and settlements for growing populations. people understand how to interact with chimps.
features of economic, cultural and spiritual
apply it to ecology studies. He believed that a Using the data gathered from these mapping In other places, there are real conflicts between
importance on a 60-cm QuickBird satellite image.
perspective from space could help scientists tools, JGI and others can develop effective the chimpanzees and people that have to be
This is the kind of local perspective and
better understand wildlife habitat and conservation efforts and support other rural acknowledged and addressed.
interpretation of landscape that scientists wouldn’t
ecosystems. development objectives, such as improving access Despite the dire threats that chimpanzees
be able to provide,” he says. The advanced
Lilian continued developing his expertise. to clean water. For example, using the satellite face in Tanzania and elsewhere, Lilian is hopeful
technology can provide a good unifying framework.
After postgraduate studies at the University of imagery, JGI detected that forest conversion to they can be saved. “I believe in the strong
“Satellite images can offer that common language, a
Bucharest and working as a Fulbright Scholar farmland in Mganza forest threatened the main resilience of nature and the power of nature to
way to integrate local knowledge with science and
applying remote sensing to coastal zone water source for Bugamba village. Detailed maps transform us.
communicate with people on the ground.”
management, he began applying his geospatial helped JGI and its partners encourage the It’s as E.O. Wilson says: nature is in our genes
Thanks to Jane Goodall, the Gombe Stream
technical skills at Gombe National Park, site of establishment of village forest reserves that protect and if we lose nature, we lose ourselves.” 
Research Center and JGI’s Center for Primate
Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking chimpanzee Studies at the University of Minnesota (where he both water sources and chimpanzees.
research. did his PhD), Lilian has access to data that spans
One key tool in remote sensing is satellite many decades. He used GIS technology to overlay
imagery, which uses multispectral scanners to 1972 and 1999 satellite images with chimpanzee
behavioral data digitized from Jane’s 1970s field

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› At the Gombe Stream Research Center WESTERN UGANDA

JGI in Africa
JGI addresses conservation problems at their roots, working with local communities in a spirit
Tanzanian field staff and visiting scientists
further the chimpanzee study Dr. Goodall
began in 1960.

2 G R E AT E R G O M B E E C O S Y S T E M , TA N Z A N I A
› JGI’s Budongo Forest Reserve Ecotourism Project
supports chimpanzee survival through forest
protection and management. Our program
incorporates guided chimp walks, a handsome
new wilderness lodge and more.
› In the Greater Gombe Ecosystem, JGI partners
of innovation and true partnership. Here is a summary of our community-centered conservation, with local communities to establish sustainable 9 KALINZU FOREST RESERVE,
chimpanzee awareness, and Roots & Shoots work throughout Africa in 2007. livelihoods, improve health care and education, and WESTERN UGANDA
preserve forest habitat. Our community-centered › Former poachers scour the forest floor for illegal
conservation method has been recognized by the snares, which maim — and even kill — wild
US Agency for International Development and chimpanzees, in our Snare Removal Project.
others as an approach worth emulating.
› Kigoma young people learn about 10 K A B A R O L E , K Y E N J O J O , B U N D I B U G YO
AND KAMWENGE DISTRICTS
chimpanzees, habitats and conservation at
the JGI Education Center. › JGI trains teachers and develops curricula to
support quality environmental education in primary
› JGI helps Kigoma coffee farmers improve incomes schools in districts where chimpanzees are found.
and regenerate forests critical for chimpanzees.
11 T C H I M P O U N G A N AT U R A L R E S E R V E ,
3 M A S I T O - U G A L L A E C O S Y S T E M , TA N Z A N I A REPUBLIC OF CONGO
› Our Masito-Ugalla Ecosystem Program, launched in › Orphaned chimpanzees build important social
2007, extends our proven community-centered
bonds, take forest walks, eat healthy diets and
conservation method to a largely undisturbed area
of forest south of Gombe. receive loving care at JGI’s Tchimpounga
Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center.
4 D A R E S S A L A A M , TA N Z A N I A › JGI’s protected area management, including
13 › In the Roots & Shoots Digital Arts Program, training of local eco-guards, has significantly
we train young people to document social and reduced illegal hunting in the Reserve.
environmental problems and create public
service videos. › JGI collaborates with the Max Planck Institute
and Harvard University to conduct non-invasive,
› Every student at the Yatima orphanage has
8 behavioral and genetic chimpanzee research at
the all-important chance to attend secondary
9 our sanctuary.
10 school thanks to the Roots & Shoots
Scholarship Program.
12 12 M A I K O - TAY N A - K A H U Z I B I E G A L A N D S C A P E ,
11 2 5
5 M O S H I R E G I O N , TA N Z A N I A D E M O C R AT I C R E P U B L I C O F T H E C O N G O
1 4 › In this community-centered conservation effort,
6 › Roots & Shoots youth plant trees, tend tree
3 7
nurseries, teach parents about conservation, and JGI promotes sustainable livelihoods, family
much more. They’re 600 groups strong in Tanzania. planning, and improved local infrastructure,
including a new micro-hydropower plant in
Kasugho village.
6 MO R O G O R O A N D B U N D A D I S T R I C T S ,
TA N Z A N I A
13 G U I N E A A N D S I E R R A L E O N E
› JGI trains young people to act as “peer educators”
› JGI builds the capacity of local communities to
on HIV/AIDS issues and helps promote greater
develop sustainable economies that can help
understanding of HIV/AIDS through anti-stigma
ensure the long-term survival of chimpanzees,
campaigns involving Roots & Shoots.
while we use a variety of means to raise awareness
7 C O A S TA L TA N Z A N I A of chimpanzees and conservation needs.
› Students in public and Islamic schools
learn about coastal conservation and take
action through our R&S Environmental
Education Program.

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JGI Conservation
and Communities
JGI’s community-centered conservation activities work to
preserve and restore the environment while supporting sustainable
livelihoods and improving local capacity in a variety of
development areas. In 2007, our initiatives ranged from helping
a village to build a hydro-electric plant, to training community
leaders in eco-development planning, to building local capacity
in eco-tourism management.

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Masito-Ugalla
Ecosystem Project
A new project represents the conservation
JGI IN ACTION
opportunity of a lifetime.
What we are
doing:
In a pristine part of
Tanzania that
When JGI’s Director of Conservation, Dr. uncontrolled timber harvesting, the use of forest represents a rare
biomass to make charcoal — all are beginning to chance for
Lilian Pintea, first flew over the Masito-Ugalla
conservation impact,
landscape, he was speechless. take a toll. we engage villagers
“I was looking down at a sea of pristine forest, In just its first year, the Masito-Ugalla project has in land-use
planning, gather
woodlands and grasslands — almost totally made important progress. One of the most biodiversity
unspoiled,” he says. “Of course I knew our goals noteworthy is bringing on a veteran conservationist information and
build local
in the region were important, but with that as director. Emil Kayega was formerly principal conservation
birds’ eye view, it hit me that preserving the environmental officer in the Tanzanian Vice capacity.
Masito-Ugalla ecosystem is the conservation President’s office, and has a wealth of project Why is it
opportunity of a lifetime. The ecosystem is a management experience and extensive connections important?
The project
natural wonder.” in the NGO and government sectors. envisions people
In 2007, the Jane Goodall Institute launched a JGI also has conducted biodiversity and socio- sharing the land
with chimps —
multifaceted project in the Masito-Ugalla economic surveys throughout the region. These villagers engaged in
ecosystem in Western Tanzania. The 2,223- instruments are critical for determining the protecting and
see villagers working side by side with scientists managing forests as
square-mile area (5,759 sq. km.) of forests and distribution of chimpanzees and other species, part of a multitude
woodlands is home to more than 500 wild identifying environmental resources, locating the on surveys, providing essential local knowledge,” of sustainable
centers of human population, and ultimately says Kayega. development
chimpanzees, as well as elephants, eland,
activities supported
hartebeest, duikers, buffalo and other species. specifying the parameters of program interventions. The project also seeks to build local capacity by JGI.
in the conservation realm. We will train 30 village
forest monitors to collect and report information
“I was looking down at a sea of pristine forest ... it hit me that preserving on illegal use of forest resources, to remove snares
the Masito-Ugalla ecosystem is the conservation opportunity of a lifetime.” TOP:
and to monitor and report poaching.
FORESTS IN THE MASITO-UGALLA ECOSYSTEM FACE INCREASING Next JGI will work with villages to pursue the
PRESSURE FROM HUMAN ACTIVITIES .
development priorities they identified in meetings
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The Masito-Ugalla project aims to conserve Another important accomplishment in 2007 MASITO-UGALLA ECOSYSTEM PROGRAM DIRECTOR and surveys. Projects will depend on each
EMIL UBOFUWAMUNGU KAYEGA , WITH STAFF.
wild chimpanzees and other endangered species includes the development of land-use plans by four community’s stated needs, but most likely include
by connecting community-run forest reserves villages. These plans designate core wilderness areas infrastructure development (schools, dispensaries,
with existing tracts — Mahale and Gombe that are strictly protected, buffer zones where certain water systems and more), family planning,
national parks and Tongwe East Uvinza forest extractive activities are allowed, agricultural zones, village-run savings and loan schemes, and support
reserves. The program team works closely with grazing zones, and human settlement zones. One for small-scale businesses in forestry, agriculture,
local communities to address their needs and long-term outcome of such planning will be a forest fisheries and other areas.
provide incentives for participation, while also corridor chimpanzees can travel through — a Fortunately, the Tanzanian government has
building awareness that only an intact forest can mosaic of savannah, woodlands and tropical forests. made conserving biodiversity while improving
provide vital resources such as water catchments. To support fully participatory land-use planning, local livelihoods a key objective. It is particularly
Although the region is largely undeveloped, it JGI layers high-resolution satellite images with interested in ecotourism and honey manufacturing
faces increasing threats from human population Global Information Systems ground survey data, as sustainable local livelihood activities. “Both local
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JGI’S
pressures, both residents and refugees. Illegal and then we meet with villagers to incorporate a PROGRAM IN MASITO-UGALLA
communities and the national government have
hunting, unsustainable agricultural practices, critical piece: local knowledge. The result is a digital janegoodall.org responded favorably to our work,” says Kayega. 
map charting chimp ranging and feeding patterns as
well as patterns of human land use. “It is so exciting to

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Ecotourism in
Uganda
Guided chimpanzee walks and other tourist
services provide an alternative to poaching in
the wildlife-rich Uganda forest.

The Budongo Forest Reserve in Western


Uganda is a place of significant biodiversity, with
primary forests, woodlands, savannahs and an
especially precious natural resource — about
600 chimpanzees (roughly 1/8 of the country’s
estimated chimpanzee population).
But illegal logging practices and bushmeat
hunting threaten this biodiversity. Logging
encroaches on an ecosystem that sustains human
and chimpanzee alike, and that includes some
of the last remaining mature mahogany trees in
the area. The illicit bushmeat practice targets
duikers and bush pigs, but chimpanzees regularly
become trapped by the wire and rope snares and
lose hands and feet. It’s estimated that in certain
Uganda forests, 25–50 percent of chimpanzees
are disabled by snare injuries and therefore are
less able or even unable to forage and fight.
JGI created its Budongo Forest Ecotourism
Project as a long-term alternative to poaching.
The project supports chimpanzee survival and
sustainable forest use through ecotourism — ABOVE:
The guides and other field personnel are trained Revenues from the Budongo project help the JGI SUPPORTS CHIMPANZEE SURVIVAL IN
guided walks, a lodge and other tourist services, THE BUDONGO FOREST REGION THROUGH
in chimpanzee and forest ecology, as well as government to increase the number of forest rangers GUIDED WALKS , THE ECO-LODGE SHOWN
and crafts. Specifically, it works with the HERE, AND OTHER TOURIST SERVICES .
chimpanzee “habituation” — the process of getting it employs and their salaries. This has helped stem
National Forest Authority and local people in OPPOSITE PAGE TOP:
wild chimpanzees accustomed to a human presence. the illegal tree cutting and poaching and thus TWO FOREST GUIDES SHOW SAMPLES OF
Kaniyo-Pabidi to attract tourists to see chimps THE SNARES THAT OFTEN TRAP AND MAIM
JGI-Uganda began habituating the Budongo protect the ecological viability of Budongo’s WILD CHIMPANZEES .
in their natural habitat. Tourists go on “chimp
chimpanzees several years ago, and now chimpanzee remaining forests. The project also provides OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM:
walks” guided by local staff members who JGI’S JACQUELINE ALINAITWE PROMOTES
sightings are almost guaranteed. Of course, people individual households seed capital for business THE ROOTS & SHOOTS PROGRAM TO
provide information about the ecosystem EDUCATORS THROUGHOUT UGANDA .
must stay at least 30 feet away at all times to prevent training and sustainable microenterprises such as
and the chimps. The chimps come from two
disease transmission, but this still gives tourists beekeeping and agro-forestry. Says Debby Cox,
communities in the area and number
an appreciation they could never attain behind a executive director of JGI-Uganda: “This project
between 130 and 150.
fence at a zoo. helps the frontline communities take control
When guides do find the chimpanzees they
The project is based on another JGI ecotourism of their destiny and avoid becoming victims of
can point them out individually, speaking
program at Kanyanchu in Kibale National Park, their circumstances.” Investing local citizens in
about them as they relate in fascinating detail
Uganda, which by 2006 reported that 85 percent ecotourism activities ensures that conservation
the almost soap opera-like narratives
of its visitors successfully viewed chimpanzees. and local livelihoods go hand in hand. 
of their life stories.

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Village hydro-
electricity project
A newly built micro-hydropower plant has
transformed lives in a remote village in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In developing countries, renewable energy is a


key means of improving quality of life while
maintaining harmony with the environment.
Energy affects so much — livelihoods, health,
education, and gender-related issues. But in
Kasugho, a remote village in the eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
access to power has been unpredictable at best.
What little electricity was available in the
community required diesel for small generators,
but diesel supply is expensive and intermittent in
the remote area. Faced with these challenges,
local people have had to rely on shift-and-burn
agriculture, cultivating steep hillsides. They also
over-harvest firewood for heating and cooking
and pollute water sources.
This is why Kasugho leaders identified ABOVE:
electricity as a top priority and worked with JGI COMMUNITIES ARE AT THE HEART OF JGI’S
CONSERVATION EFFORTS .
over two years to bring a micro-hydropower The electricity committee determines the
OPPOSITE PAGE:
plant to their village. distribution of power from the plant. Every user THE HYDROPOWER PLANT SUPPORTS A RADIO
STATION, OPERATED BY THE TAYNA GORILLA
At the project’s start in 2005, more than 200 contributes a fee according to the amount of power RESERVE, WHICH BROADCASTS PROGRAMS ON
AGRICULTURE, HEALTH AND CONSERVATION.
villagers carried the sand and stones needed to consumed. These fees pay for maintenance costs
build a micro-hydropower plant that would and the salaries of two villagers trained as
eventually provide 35kw of electricity. maintenance electricians.
JGI then worked with the community to elect Said Project Coordinator Dario Merlo: “The
a management committee for the long-term power plant project is magnificent. Poles light the
sustainability of the micro-hydroplant. The streets and the market of the village, and the
committee helped mobilize villagers to build 600 villagers are preparing additional poles. The hotel,
meters of road leading to the power plant. the university, the radio station, laboratories and
Villagers also helped install electrical equipment health centers are totally lighted.”
on the lines and carry all the heavy equipment JGI partners with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
such as transformers and wires. International to promote conservation in the OF THE CONGO
KASUGHO
The facility lit up the night sky on November Kasugho area. Additional activities include
6, 2007, forever transforming the lives of 16,000 construction of fish ponds and chicken coops to
people in the service area. It is powering the first provide protein sources as an alternative to
conservation university in the DRC — the Tayna bushmeat. 
Center for Conservation Biology, as well as a FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JGI’S PROGRAM IN KASUGHO
maternity center, the local town center, and janegoodall.org/news/article-detail.asp?Entry_ID=503
various mills and shops.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:

Chimpanzee Conservation
and Sensitization Program JGI IN ACTION
What we are
For chimpanzee conservation to be most effective, it must be doing:
JGI is building
linked to poverty alleviation. the capacity of
communities in
Guinea and Sierra
Leone to develop
It wasn’t the easiest of job-related trips. To exchange. Hunting for bushmeat and a live pet sustainable
economies that
reach the remote Guinean community of Madina trade threaten chimps in this part of the world as can help ensure the
Oula to conduct a rapid biodiversity assessment well. These threats are exacerbated by a lack of long-term survival
of chimpanzees,
and discuss chimpanzee survival and ecotourism information and awareness about chimpanzees and while we generate
with community leaders, JGI’s team would have the laws designed to protect them. chimpanzee aware-
to drive by pickup truck for four hours, travel by In response, JGI is building the capacity of local ness throughout
both countries.
motorbike for another half day, and then trek communities in both Guinea and Sierra Leone to Why is it
through the forest on a daylong hike. develop sustainable economies that can help ensure important?
But they would be highly rewarded for their efforts. the long-term survival of chimpanzees, while we are Conserving
chimpanzees in
the Guinean forest
“hotspot” is vital to
the long-term
“JGI is building the capacity of local communities in both Guinea and Sierra Leone to preservation of the
develop sustainable economies that can help ensure the long-term survival of chimpanzees...” species.

Just as they walked into the village, hot, grimy using a variety of methods to generate greater
LEFT:
and tired, they heard a familiar tune. Amazingly, awareness of chimpanzee social behavior, similarities JGI’S AWARENESS EFFORTS IN
GUINEA AND SIERRA LEONE
it was the conservation jingle they had put out to humans and protected status. INCLUDE POSTERS HIGHLIGHT-
ING THE PROTECTED STATUS
on the radio throughout the country. Program We train community leaders to be para-biologists AND ENDANGERMENT OF
Director Marie-Claude Gauthier and her staff and para-technicians in sustainable natural resource WILD CHIMPANZEES .

knew radio would be an efficient way to spread management. The community leaders inventory the
awareness of the plight of chimpanzees in a natural resources that their communities depend on Training, planning and implementation are NEW LAW IN SIERRA LEONE
country where many people do not have an or use. Are there chimpanzee populations nearby variously supported by the U.S. Agency for In Sierra Leone in 2007, JGI and partner
education. But it was a great validation to see that could be a basis for ecotourism? Are there areas International Development and the Alcoa NGOs saw a great victory for wild
that JGI’s Chimpanzee Sensitization and that might support forest reserves, or fast-growing Foundation. chimpanzees when the government,
Awareness Program had such a long reach. indigenous tree species for fuel-wood supply? With Thanks to Alcoa, in 2007 we extended our responding to pleas for enhanced protection
Guinea and its neighbor, Sierra Leone, are JGI’s help, the para-technicians learn how to awareness-raising efforts to a new part of from both within and outside the country,
within a global biodiversity “hotspot” that ranks manage and develop valuable natural resources Guinea — the Boké prefecture, where Alcoa declared it illegal to possess, capture, kill or
first in mammalian diversity, and are thought to and identify sustainable business ideas. has investments in bauxite mining. These keep chimpanzees. JGI’s partners in the
have some of the largest remaining populations JGI then provides training in small-scale business efforts include the previously mentioned radio country include the Humane Society
of western chimpanzees. Conserving development and marketing, and, after a competitive spots in both French and local languages, International, Tacugama Chimpanzee
chimpanzees in these forests is vital to the review process, funding and implementation plus posters and other literature. Since March Sanctuary and the Conservation Society of
long-term preservation of the species. assistance for the best plans. Business plans developed of 2007, the JGI team in Guinea has Sierra Leone. 
But slash-and-burn farming and logging have in Guinea in 2007 included restoration of distributed thousands of posters, stickers,
reduced the forests in the hotspot region to chimpanzee habitat to enhance their presence in t-shirts, pamphlets and chimpanzee fact sheets.
10 percent of their original size and severely given areas — reforestation projects that ultimately
fragmented them. This fragmentation cuts off planted 28,000 trees in four communities. Other
important corridors for chimpanzee gene pool plans included beekeeping, gardening for market
sales, a rice pilling machine and medicinal plantations.

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JGI Education
and Outreach
The Roots & Shoots global youth program provides
young people with inspiration, support, a variety of
tools and a framework for conceiving and implementing
meaningful service projects. As they take action,
whether holding a car wash to raise money for animals
or producing public service announcements to spread
the word about environmental issues, Roots & Shoots
members receive far more than they give.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:

Youth Leadership
Initiative
Roots & Shoots is investing in the
JGI IN ACTION
leaders of tomorrow.
What we are
doing:
JGI seeks to build
Since 1991, when Jane Goodall began Roots the leadership skills
& Shoots youth program with 16 Tanzanian and problem-
solving abilities
students, it has involved tens of thousands of of young people
young people in more than 100 countries. One around the world.

of the program’s main goals is to equip young Why is it


important?
people with leadership skills. We provide In changing their
leadership learning experiences so they will be world, young people
gain key leadership
effective in today’s fast-changing and increasingly skills, build self-
interconnected world, as well as communications ABOVE:
esteem and
generate hope for
tools, action strategies and best practices. Most CROSS-CULTURAL SHARING IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE ROOTS & SHOOTS EXPERIENCE.
the future.
importantly, we provide a platform for youth OPPOSITE PAGE TOP:
OUR 2007 ROOTS & SHOOTS YOUTH LEADERSHIP FELLOW DAVID CHASE, ON A SAFARI DURING
to exercise their ideas and passions and see A R&S IMMERSION EXPERIENCE IN TANZANIA .

results. They not only grow in confidence, they OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM:
BRITTNEY TALENT WAS ONE OF FIVE U.S . ROOTS & SHOOTS YOUTH LEADERS WHO TRAVELED
grow in hope. TO SHANGHAI AND BEIJING TO SPEND TIME WITH ROOTS & SHOOTS LEADERS THERE.

C U LT U R A L E X C H A N G E
To promote the kind of cultural sharing and leader, David Chase, stepped into the role. Conference on the Environment in Connecticut,
learning that helps shape young leaders, we Fellows work for a year as full-time members of the the South African Conference on Youth
began an exchange program in 2007, sending JGI staff, honing communication, planning and Development, the Russia Youth Conference and
five U.S. students to Shanghai and Beijing to group management skills as well as serving as a vital the Jules Verne Film Festival.
spend intensive time with Roots & Shoots link between our staff and the vibrant youth
I N T E G R AT E D L E A D E R S H I P - B U I L D I N G
leaders there. This mix of Eastern and Western network we support.
The Roots & Shoots program model itself is
Each year the Youth Leadership Fellows facilitate
designed to nurture leadership, by encouraging
the launch and implementation of a large-scale,
project ideas from young people themselves, after
“We provide a platform for youth to exercise their ideas and passions and youth-led campaign. The first, under Pickering and
they’ve learned about the issues at hand. The idea
see results. They not only grow in confidence, they grow in hope.” Chase’s leadership, raised more than $50,000 for a
is to instill confidence in the power of informed
new infant chimp dormitory at the Tchimpounga
action, especially action taken by young people.
Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo. The second,
“Before I joined Roots & Shoots I felt like any
students engaged in a variety of service and “Rebirth the Earth: Trees for Tomorrow,” aims to
The students also visited the Great Wall of effort would be hopeless,” says Lindsey
educational projects, including: raise $10,000 to build five Roots & Shoots tree
China, Tian’anmen Square, the Forbidden City Goodwick of Western Connecticut State
• volunteering at a pediatric leukemia ward nurseries in Tanzania while planting 3,000 trees in
and the Temple of Heaven. University in Danbury, Connecticut. “Then
in Shanghai the United States.
We hope to have R&S college students from I joined and was introduced to a multitude of
• working at a Roots & Shoots Beijing Shanghai visit the U.S. in 2008. SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES people who are driven by the same inspirations
Eco-Action exhibit Roots & Shoots youth leaders also serve as to save the earth and help humankind. I felt re-
LEADERSHIP FELLOW PROGRAM
• exploring a R&S water conservation project, ambassadors for our programs, speaking about their energized and realized there are still people
Also in 2007, one of our most active youth
also in Beijing work to groups at every level and gaining valuable working for the common good — and there
leaders, Chase Pickering (currently a JGI board
• volunteering for a day at the Shanghai Zoo, experience in communication and leadership. In always will be. Roots & Shoots helped me
member), who had deferred going to the
where Roots & Shoots students had helped 2007, our youth leaders spoke to thousands of believe again.”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to
renovate an exhibit to improve the dignitaries at the United Nations Day of Peace in Instilling faith in a better future is at the heart of
be JGI’s first Roots & Shoots Youth Leadership
environment for the captive chimpanzees New York City, at the International Children’s Jane Goodall’s vision for Roots & Shoots around
Fellow, took off for university. Our new youth
the world. 

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S U C C E S S S TO RY: S U C C E S S S TO RY:

The Roots & Shoots Digital Reach Out, Act, Respond —


Arts Program JGI IN ACTION
R.O.A.R.
We teach digital filmmaking, media strategy What we are Animal Planet and R.O.A.R. team up
development and project management to doing: to give animals a voice through public
Tanzanian students — a life-changing experience. Roots & Shoots service announcements.
works with the
Pearson Foundation’s
Digital Arts Alliance
For young people today, success in school Other films focused on issues to train young people To co-star with a Eurasian Owl, a six-pound
and life requires educational experiences that such as coastal environmental to document social creature with a six-foot wingspan and huge
and environmental
prepare them for the challenges of our new degradation and fuel consumption problems and
talons, might be an intimidating proposition for
century. Technological learning is a must if we in Dar es Salaam. then produce many. But Chase Pickering, JGI’s 2007 Roots &
public service
want to nurture effective, empowered leaders The intensive digital arts announcements.
Shoots Youth Leadership Fellow, was not
who can guide their communities and the workshops were exciting for the Why is it
intimidated — he was too busy concentrating on
world toward sustainability. Tanzanian students, some of whom important? his lines.
The young
To help address these challenges, Roots & had had little exposure to participants develop
Chase was participating, along with 20 animal
Shoots began a new partnership with the Pearson computers. Describing the students’ skills in teamwork lovers and experts including two other Roots &
Foundation’s Digital Arts Alliance in 2007. response, Pearson’s Erik Gregory and see firsthand Shoots members, in a two-day film shoot
the value of using
The Alliance trains young people to use said: “They go through a kind of an media to promote with the crews of Animal Planet. The filming
cameras and digital editing programs to arc, of first becoming really excited, social and would culminate in a string of public service
environmental ABOVE:
document social and environmental problems and then becoming kind of change. announcements (PSAs) for Animal Planet’s CHASE PICKERING AND HIS AVIAN CO-STAR GET READY FOR THE CAMERA .

and then produce public service announcements intimidated by how big the process “Reach Out, Act, Respond (R.O.A.R.)” campaign.
about issues important to them. The participants is … and how much work needs to During Chase’s film shoot, the Eurasian Owl
not only develop skills in teamwork and reap the be done. In the end, it’s just a skyrocket. refused to look at the camera. Although Chase’s Nejati of the National Youth Leadership Council
benefits of some very hard work, they also come Inevitably, every time, their emotions are incredibly arm started to go numb after a couple of takes, and Trevor Moppin of the California Youth
to see firsthand the value of using media to high, because there’s nothing better than watching a he held on to the big bird, who finally Leadership, were also filmed for the campaign.
promote social and environmental change. video that you struggled to finish and seeing other cooperated. When it was over, a crew member “The whole experience was very exciting!” Zainab
In 2007, two Pearson representatives traveled people affected by it.” paid Chase the highest compliment, saying: said. “They certainly could have hired actors to
to Tanzania to teach digital filmmaking, media Pearson staff will return to Dar es Salaam early “Your passion for animals is inspiring and comes represent the program. It definitely demonstrates
strategy development and project management next year to work with more R&S members. They across wonderfully on camera.” Animal Planet’s commitment to the Roots &
to 60 Roots & Shoots youth in Kigoma town will take advantage of the Roots & Shoots network “I was so impressed with the size, power and Shoots program.”
and Dar es Salaam. in Tanzania, 500 groups strong, by training the beauty of this bird,” said the North Carolina The PSA series air on the Animal Planet channel
One participant, Isack Nyasilu, is a young R&S students to teach their peers in digital arts and native, who has been an animal lover his whole but also can be viewed at the R.O.A.R. campaign
man living on the eastern shore of Lake public service messaging. life and has years of experience in handling birds website (http://animal.discovery.com/roar/). The
Tanganyika near Gombe National Park, where Said Nyasilu: “Next year, I will teach my friends. of prey. “This was an unbelievable opportunity website provides comprehensive information about
deforestation threatens the future of chimpanzees So, now we are 30, then maybe we will be 60, to spread an important message of conservation.” animal welfare, including information about how
and local livelihoods alike. After learning how to maybe 100, maybe eventually many, many, many.”  Animal Planet selected Roots & Shoots as the to adopt or foster a pet and health guides for your
create a storyboard and use computer software only youth program to be highlighted in the pet. The site also features links for users who want
and video equipment, Nyasilu and his team R.O.A.R. campaign. R.O.A.R. promotes to learn more about the Roots & Shoots program
made a short film on the destruction of Kigoma’s awareness about pet welfare and well-being, as well as make a donation.
forests. The film details the reasons for endangered species, habitats, and local The R.O.A.R. campaign encourages people
deforestation and offers solutions such as conservation. Its PSAs aim to raise awareness to get involved in whatever way they choose —
sustainable fuel alternatives and tree nurseries. about issues such as animal cruelty and pet the only requirement is that they “roar” and
“We can’t stop people from cutting down health care while promoting responsible become a voice for animals everywhere — a
trees, because they need fuel for cooking and we stewardship of the planet through volunteerism, requirement that’s right up the alley of all involved
don’t have electrical power in villages, but we can
VISIT THE PEARSON FOUNDATION’S WEBSITE TO FIND
advocacy, pledges and donations. in Roots & Shoots. 
educate people about sustainable ways to use OUT MORE ABOUT THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH JGI AND Two other Roots & Shoots individuals, Zainab
natural resources,” Nyasilu said. THEIR GLOBAL COMMUNITY:
www.pearsonfoundation.org
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Roots & Shoots advocates


for animals LEFT:
ROOTS & SHOOTS-NEPAL
COUNTRY COORDINATOR
In 2007, Roots & Shoots members showed special MANOJ GAUTAM CHECKS IN
care and concern for animals. ON THE LEOPARD CUB HE
HELPED RESCUE, MILESTONE.

Roots & Shoots youth are changing the world grade teacher and Roots & Shoots volunteer A FUNDRAISER WITH A SPLASH reptiles into the wild. In the future, they hope to
one service project at a time. Tens of thousands Leah Crocker, the Ohio students teamed up with Clean canines were the order of the day in build a permanent snake rehabilitation center
of young people in almost 100 countries — another youth group, the Wetlands Education Holliston, Massachusetts, where dogs lined up in and to help snake charmers and street magicians
committed environmentalists, passionate Team, to get legislation passed in the Ohio a parking lot — some a bit reluctantly — for a pursue alternative professions.
humanitarians, enthusiastic animal lovers — Senate and House of Representatives. The young good washing. The second annual Roots &
TRIPPING TRAPS TO SAVE TIGERS
identify issues facing their communities and activists led a petition drive and postcard Shoots dog bath, guided by R&S group leader
beyond, and then take action to solve these campaign in support of Senate Bill 240, then In Shanghai, China, a young conservationist
Michelle Tate, raised money for the BayPath
problems. In the process, they achieve greater traveled to the capitol in Columbus to testify at a nicknamed “Tiger Tony” works to save the
Humane Society and the adoption and rescue
self-esteem and, most importantly, an understanding Senate hearing. The bill passed in a 32-0 vote, critically endangered Amur, or Siberian Tigers,
efforts of Holliston Pet Meadows. The group
of their ability to effect positive change. and must now be taken up by the House. If the demonstrating a rare blend of commitment and
washed 43 dogs and collected more than $1,000.
Roots & Shoots projects are as varied as the bill becomes law, all Ohio fourth graders will physical endurance.
Not only did they learn about fundraising and
members. But in 2007, members showed special learn about the spotted salamander and Ohio During his last trip in winter 2006, with
event organizing and get some exposure to a
care and concern for animals. wetlands, which commercial and residential support from JGI-Shanghai, Tony Liu traveled
variety of dog (and people) types and
development have greatly reduced. They also will with other volunteers for the Wildlife
RAISING AN ABANDONED LEOPARD CUB
personalities, they also achieved their hearts’
see a strong example of the power of youth Conservation Society to a remote reserve in
In the village of Changu, in the Bhaktapur desire — a day full of petting and hugging dogs.
activism. northeastern China. The group removed 300
District of Nepal, local youth found a leopard SETTING SNAKES FREE snares and traps over nearly 600 miles in
cub, alone and extremely vulnerable. They LEMONADE WITH A PURPOSE On the bustling streets of Kathmandu, Nepal, temperatures that sometimes fell below zero. They
brought her to police, who weren’t sure where to Seven gallons of lemonade. Six and a half snakes are a common sight. Snake charmers and also traveled through the area villages talking to
turn, but could see the cub would not survive hours of work. That’s what it took for Amanda street magicians use the reptiles to entertain local people about the tigers and their endangered
without intensive care. They finally called upon Ketterer to help the chimpanzees. passing pedestrians, playing flutes to “hypnotize” status and handing out booklets and calendars
members of Roots & Shoots-Nepal, who did not In kindergarten, Amanda learned about Dr. the snakes or handling deadly, poisonous cobras that Liu had designed as educational tools.
hesitate to take her under their wing. Now, the Goodall, her work with chimpanzees, and her to amaze the assembled crowd. Liu’s third trip will be financed by Roots &
Roots & Shoots group is trying to raise funds for tireless humanitarian and conservation work. She Rightfully concerned about the welfare of Shoots youth in the US — one example of the
a wildlife rehabilitation center where the cub, became an instant admirer. Three years later, this reptilian performers, members of Roots & global youth exchange Roots & Shoots nurtures.
nicknamed “Milestone,” can learn life skills so 9-year-old from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, decided Shoots-Nepal decided to take action. They “He’s getting out there, taking action and
that someday she may be returned to the wild. to take matters into her own hands by hosting a obtained permission from Nepal’s wildlife making a huge difference. We want to be sure he
lemonade stand to fundraise for JGI. department to confiscate snakes and release the can continue to do the work, which takes a
TESTIFYING ON BEHALF OF SALAMANDERS
Using old furniture and scraps of wood, animals back into the wild — the first time the special person to do,” said R&S youth leader
Missouri has the North American bullfrog.
Amanda and her family built the stand from government had allowed a non-governmental Chase Pickering.
New Hampshire has the red-spotted newt. Ohio?
scratch, complete with a stuffed animal mascot group to operate raids and release animals. Liu says meeting Jane Goodall during one of
It doesn’t have a state amphibian — or the
and a sign that read, “Lemonade for Chimp So far, R&S-Nepal members have collected her trips to Shanghai was a high point of his life
conservation bona fides that official designation
Aid.” To maximize traffic, she set up shop at a eight snakes — cobras, pythons and rat snakes. and a turning point. “She wrote a letter to me
bestows — but one Roots & Shoots group is
big swim meet in town. Then she and her sister During the rehabilitation period, they house the that said ‘Follow your dream, never give up, you
trying to change that.
went to work, selling lemonade, candy and snakes in a vivarium donated by a local college will find the way,’ which Jane’s mom said to her.
To raise awareness about wetland conservation,
lemonade sticks all day — greatly aided by and administer any needed medical treatment. These words make me strong. Protecting wildlife
members of the Central Intermediate Roots &
Shoots group in Wadsworth are leading a
110-degree temperatures! At the end of the day, For a time they use the confiscated snakes to is my dream.” 
having sold all their wares, they’d raised $536 — educate schoolchildren about snakes and correct
campaign to get the spotted salamander named
all for the chimps. common misconceptions. They then release the
as Ohio’s official amphibian. Guided by fifth-

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J G I E D U C AT I O N A N D O U T R E AC H

JANE NEWS:
Jane Goodall Global Leadership Awards
Jane’s worldwide travel schedule would daunt even the most seasoned traveler. In 2007 she
traveled to more than 15 countries, speaking to schoolchildren, general audiences, government
JGI awards global leaders at 30th
officials and business leaders about the Gombe chimpanzees, JGI’s programs in Africa and anniversary bi-coastal events.
around the world, every individual’s ability to effect change, and her reasons for hope. Below
are just a few of the highlights of Jane’s whirlwind year. On September 28, in Los Angeles, and
October 10, in Washington, D.C., JGI hit a
milestone — the first annual Jane Goodall Global
Leadership Awards celebration.
Live Earth New York Exclusive, eco-friendly bi-coastal events were
held to recognize the award recipients, celebrate
Dr. Goodall urges concert-goers to protect our planet. the Institute’s 30th anniversary, and directly
In July, Jane had her largest single live audience benefit JGI’s programs in primate research,
yet, during the Live Earth New York concert conservation and development, and youth
at Giants Stadium. Some 80,000 concert-goers education and leadership.
and a global TV audience heard Jane’s signature The Jane Goodall Global Leadership Awards
chimpanzee pant-hoot greeting and message were presented to:
of hope. Quoting an Eskimo friend, Angaaq • His Excellency, President Benjamin Mkapa,
Lyberth, Jane asked a pointed question: “Up in for global leadership
the North, the ice is melting. What will it take • The Honorable Patrick Leahy, for excellence
Clinton Global Initiative
to melt the ice in the human heart?”  in public policy
• Ted Turner, for responsible activism in media
During the Clinton Global Initiative in New and entertainment
York City, Jane furthered JGI’s efforts to combat Almost Human
Roots & Shoots Day of Peace • Chase Pickering, for youth leadership
climate change by participating in a panel on • Patagonia, Inc., for excellence in corporate
In cities and towns far and near, people gather Almost Human — Animal Planet film features
protecting tropical forests and by signing the social responsibility
to fly giant peace dove puppets to celebrate Jane Goodall and Bill Wallauer in search of Gaia.
Forests NOW Declaration, which called on peace — and those who work towards peace. • A posthumous award to the late Gretchen Wyler,
world governments to take urgent action on In October 2007, Animal Planet premiered Almost
animal welfare activist and president of the Ark
deforestation. Every year, in late September, Roots & Human with Jane Goodall — the fifth Animal Planet
Trust, Inc., was accepted by her sister.
The Declaration was delivered to world leaders Shoots youth from around the world gather to film to feature Jane and her work. This film explores
Ed Begley, Jr., star of stage and screen and leading
attending the United Nations Framework celebrate Roots & Shoots Day of Peace in the fascinating behavior of chimpanzees as Jane and
Hollywood environmental activist, was the emcee
Convention on Climate Change in Bali in support of the United Nations International JGI’s veteran videographer, Bill Wallauer, search over
for the Los Angeles event at the California Science
December, and called for incentives, assistance Day of Peace. The Roots & Shoots members 18 miles of Gombe National Park for Gaia, a
Center’s Wallis Annenberg Building. Jeff Corwin,
and other forest protection measures to be “fly” giant peace dove puppets as a symbol and chimpanzee mother who disappeared after suffering
wildlife biologist and Emmy Award-winning
included in any carbon market mechanisms celebration of peace. In 2007, peace doves flew the death of an infant for the second time.
television host, emceed the Washington, D.C.,
adopted at the convention. in 69 cities in a total of 22 countries. The Both Jane and Bill have a special connection with
event at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium.
Launched by former U.S. President Bill peace doves have reached some incredible Gaia — Bill filmed her birth and Jane has been closely
Both evening events were beautifully enhanced
Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is a places, including the top of Mount following the progress of the “G” family for decades. As
by environmentally friendly decorations and
non-partisan endeavor that brings together a Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the grounds Almost Human unfolds, we are invited to witness how
traditional African music. Guests enjoyed vegetarian
community of global leaders to devise and of a monastery in Mongolia.  chimps experience joy, wonder, kinship, maternal love,
and organic cuisine and a live auction to support
implement innovative solutions to some of the grief and perhaps even a kind of spirituality — deep
the efforts of the Institute. Items varied from unique
world’s most pressing challenges. emotions that many believe to be uniquely human.
artwork to a trip to Africa.
“This Declaration should help convince the Much of the film’s never-before-seen footage comes
The galas served not only to honor the past efforts
world leaders that protecting tropical forests is from the Jane Goodall Institute’s rich media library,
of those who have contributed to the Jane Goodall
not only a critical means of addressing climate which is full of historic scenes and images chronicling
Institute, but also to highlight the aspirations of the
Dr. Goodall’s remarkable time at Gombe.
change,” Jane said. “It is also essential to the organization in the years to come. 
future of the amazing species found in tropical The future of wild chimpanzees is uncertain, and it
forests, as well as the many impoverished people is up to us to ensure their survival. Almost Human
who live there.”  with Jane Goodall helps cultivate compassion and
concern for beings similar to us in so many ways. 

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JGI 2007 FINANCIAL REPORT

JGI-USA

Financial Report — 2007


In 2007, JGI’s unrestricted revenues rose slightly to reach a record $16.5 million. Large
increases in individual contributions and private and government grants offset a significant
decrease in bequests. JGI recorded total revenue of $17.7 million, including restricted grants.

In 2007, JGI’s unrestricted revenues rose Private foundations provided two of the most
slightly to reach a record $16.5 million. Large important 2007 grants supporting JGI’s work in
increases in individual contributions and private Africa. The Jay Pritzker Foundation provided JGI
and government grants offset a significant with $2.1 million over three years to support an The continuing revenue growth in 2007, along
decrease in bequests. JGI recorded total revenue expansion of JGI’s community-centered with expansion of multi-year funding from multiple
of $17.7 million, including restricted grants. conservation work in a large area of western sources, provides a strong base for future stability
Investment income, including interest and Tanzania south of Kigoma called Masito-Ugalla. and expansion. We expect revenues to grow more
dividends, rose from $628,000 in 2006 to This project is the first large-scale replication of slowly in the next few years, as we continue to
$842,000 in 2007, reflecting larger reserves. JGI’s successful TACARE program, which build our relationships with major funders and to
Total expenses reached nearly $13.9 million, pioneered community-conservation in the villages expand our activities in the U.S. and Africa.
leaving an unrestricted surplus of $2.5 million. surrounding Gombe National Park. The Kohlberg Following are the combined financial statements
This surplus allowed the Institute to build its Foundation provided $750,000 over three years of JGI-USA, including JGI-Tanzania, JGI-Republic
cash and invested reserves to $14.8 million at to support similar work in the Greater Gombe of Congo, JGI-Uganda and JGI-Illinois — the
year end, a $2.3-million increase from the Ecosystem, extending and expanding the primary organizations managed by JGI-USA. 
previous year. program supported by USAID in this critically
Grants from government agencies and private endangered landscape.
foundations increased substantially, from just Our administrative and fundraising costs
over $3 million in 2006 to $5.3 million in 2007. increased in 2007, accounting for 22.7 percent
The Institute’s restricted net assets (in effect, our of our total expense base, compared to 20 percent
backlog) grew by nearly $1.3 million, from $2.3 during 2006. During 2007 we made significant
ABOVE LEFT:
million in December 2006 to $3.6 million at investments in staffing our Development A TCHIMPOUNGA CHIMPANZEE WALKS BIPEDALLY.
year end 2007. Department and strengthening our capacity to ABOVE RIGHT:
The Institute’s balance sheet continued to manage our finances and to report accurately STUDENTS IN DAR ES SALAAM HELP CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF A ROOTS &
SHOOTS COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.
grow stronger. In addition to the $14.8 million to our donors. RIGHT:
in cash and investments, receivables rose from A STUFFED MONKEY, MR. H, WAS GIVEN TO DR. JANE IN 1996 AND HAS SINCE
BEEN TO OVER 50 COUNTRIES AND TOUCHED BY 2 MILLION PEOPLE.
$2.4 million in 2006 to $3.7 million in 2007.
With total liabilities of $659,000, total net assets
reached $19.0 million in 2007, up from $15.2
million in the previous year.

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JGI 2007 FINANCIAL REPORT

A copy of the Institute’s financial statements is available upon request or may be viewed on
JGI’s website (janegoodall.org). Additional information about JGI can be found in the 2007 annual
information return, Form 990, which is available by request or may be viewed on the website. Combined Statement of activities and changes
IN NET ASSETS FOR THE YEAR ENDED AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2007

TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY
UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL

TOTAL REVENUE 16,042,758 1,247,707 0 17,290,465


TOTAL EXPENSES 13,495,566 0 0 13,495,566
Change in net assets 2,547,192 1,247,707 0 3,794,899
2007 Sources of Unrestricted Operating Funds from operating activities
before other items
GAINS ON INVESTMENTS -15,493 — — -15,493
Change in net assets 2,531,699 1,247,707 0 3,779,406
67% Contributions 11,584,391 Net assets, beginning of year 12,705,690 2,325,776 217,728 15,249,194
24% Grants 4,093,135 Net assets, end of year 15,237,389 3,573,483 217,728 19,028,600
3% Lecture Tour and Honorariums 515,244
5% Interest and Dividends 842,077
1% Other Income 255,618
TOTAL $17,290,465 Combined Schedule of Financial Position
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2007

ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents 2,894,610
Investments 11,919,933
Accounts receivable 2,084,387
Grants and bequests receivable 1,597,800
Advance to field 271,273
Prepaid expenses and other assets 114,173
2007 Uses of Unrestricted Funds Merchandise inventory
Furniture and equipment, net accumulated depreciation
95,181
710,488
TOTAL ASSETS $19,687,845
5.0% Wildlife Research 677,992 LIABILITIES
22.9% Education 3,088,970 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 659,245
6.1% Communication 821,293
43.5% Animal Welfare and Conservation 5,874,068 TOTAL LIABILITIES $659,245
TOTAL PROGRAMS $ 10,462,323 NET ASSETS
Unrestricted:
18% Fundraising 2,429,370 Undesignated 9,772,161
4.5% Management and General 603,873 Board designated 5,465,228
TOTAL $ 13,495,566 TOTAL UNRESTRICTED $15,237,389
Temporarily restricted 3,573,483
Permanently restricted 217,728
Change in net assets 3,794,899
Other items (15,493) TOTAL NET ASSETS $19,028,600
Unrestricted net assets, beginning of year 15,249,194 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $19,687,845
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $19,028,600

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JANE’S PEAK SOCIETY IS A LEADERSHIP GROUP OF THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE’S


STRONGEST STEWARDS. MEMBERS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN SUSTAINING JGI’S QUALITY
OF PROGRAMMING IN CHIMPANZEE CARE AND PROTECTION , COMMUNITY-CENTERED
CONSERVATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION .
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Jane’s David Greybeard’s Fifi’s Flo’s Gremlin’s From Our


Fellowship
$100,000+
Fellowship
$50,000–$99,999
Fellowship Fellowship
$25,000–$49,999 $10,000–$24,999
Fellowship
$5,000–$9,999
Adams Hussey & Francine & Walter
Supporters
Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous (3) Anonymous (3) The Lumpkin
the Jane Goodall the Jane Goodall A Kinder World the Jane Goodall Family Foundation Associates, Inc. Kansteiner
Institute – Canada Institute - France Foundation Institute - United Thomas D. Sharmon & David Joan E. Lane
The Annenberg Biltmore Estate, Valerie Anton Kingdom Mangelsen, Inc. Altshuler Maria & Greg
Foundation Inc. Melissa & William The Banky ManyOne American Fidelity Leeds
Arcus Foundation Colorado State Connelly Larocque Networks, Inc. Corporation Lewis, Brisbois,
University Foundation The Merlin Augustana College Bisgaard & Smith,
Estate of George ConocoPhillips
D. Cornell Delta Air Lines The Barkley Fund Foundation Rebecca Bell LLP
Disney Wildlife
Discovery Foundation Conservation Fund Borders, Inc. Piedmont Financial Lisa & Zohar Ben- Betty White
Communications, Alissa & Henry Lanny Bromfield Trust Company Dov Ludden
The Frost
Inc. Klein Foundation Harriet Bullitt Platinum Rye, LLC Candice Bergen & Jeanette & Kevin
Addison Fischer Estate of Marjorie Connie Steensma Marshall Rose Malone
Cathy & Warren Constance Lane &
Green Mountain Lambert Gorrell David Cameron & Richard Prins Bioqual, Inc. Microsoft Matching
Coffee Roasters Macricostas Family Estate of Julie A. Gifts Program
Foundation Foundation
Humboldt State John W. Carson
Seiden
Black Hills Area
Elizabeth Moran
“Initially, we contributed to JGI in
University Foundation Community
The Howard G. Dorothy D. Marsan Diane & Donald Cornell University G. Lynn Shostack Foundation Rusty & Connie honor of Jane Goodall and her
Buffett Foundation Trust Kendall, Jr. State Bar of Mr. & Mrs. Fred S. Pace
Daniels Fund groundbreaking research. As we
Juliana Kickert The Messengers of Jennifer Leeds California Bocock Mary Ann & John
Pogo Davis & Parker
Trust Healing Winds Rema Boscov
Allene & Jerome Foundation
The Lincoln Park George Julie & Roger
Strauch Pax Natura
came to know the Institute’s work
Zoological Society Kutzschbach Susan Butler
Lapides Jennifer & David J.
Norwegian Outdoor Sherry deBoer The Supreme Christensen,
Foundation even better, we increased our sup-
Foundation, Inc. Miller Master Ching Hai Glaser, Fink, Marie Ridder
Exploration Center Doane College
Beth & George Omega Institute
Oppenheimer
International Jacobs, Weil & Barbara & David port. We have come to greatly
Macricostas For Holistic Studies Downing Association Shapiro, LLP Rolph
RagingWire Park Foundation
Brothers Foundation
Susan & Jim City National Bank Roth Family
respect JGI’s collaborative, innovative
Foundation
Enterprise The Elidar Fund Swartz
Solutions
Taronga The Panaphil
Resnick Family
Harriett Crosby Foundation work in research, community-based
Foundation Foundation Thaw Charitable Mary Anne The Schooner
Maine Community The Harry Walker The Philanthropic
Foundation Trust Cunningham Foundation conservation and education.
Foundation Agency Fries-Tait Loring, Wolcott & Beth Schuman
Collaborative Patty DeDominic &
The Jay Pritzker Foundation Coolidge Office
Washington State Susan Sakmar & Gene Sinser Silicon Valley
Foundation Google, Inc.
University Kirk Hobbs
Maureen Hackett &
Joan & Arnold Fiona & Floyd Dias Community With a singular focus on its mis-
Mary Lynn & Travis Foundation
Schultz Family Phyllis Kupferstein
William Oliver
Foundation
Roman Oliynyk Lucy Waletzky & Donald Farkas Strategic sion, but with an openness and
The Regenstein Eva & Yoel Haller Wallis Foundation Partnerships, LLC
Foundation
Shelby Jean &
Sheldon Sloan Greatergood.org Warwicks
Elizabeth Fenn
Elizabeth Steele
inclusiveness in their approach, JGI
Climate Clean, LLC
Trinity School Laura Heneghan Stationers
Eric Fotheringham
Ted Conferences, has a huge impact not only in the
Billy E. Weisman Houston Zoo Craig Weatherup LLC
Whirlpool IEG, LLC Wichita Community
Helen E. Gates
Triple Rock communities they serve, but also in
Trust
John S. and James Foundation Brewing Company,
Corporation
L. Knight
Ann and Gordon Inc.
conservation policy and public opin-
Messengers of Mollie Williford Getty Foundation
Healing Winds Foundation Youth Leadership Girardi & Keese
Deborah & Jeff ion. We are grateful to be able to
Foundation Lake Area Council Wald
Law support their work.”
Zoological Society Edwin Wald
Hawksglen
Estate of Vivion C. Pauline Walton
Foundation
Le Bow Willa Mae &
Jingle & William —Susan Young, JGI major gifts donor
Guadalupe & Mark George Whatley
Johnston
Levine Danielle Wilson
Justin Timberlake
Leo S. Guthman Foundation, Inc. Winnick Family
Fund Foundation

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Golden & Glitter’s


Fellowship
$1,000–$4,999
Anonymous (3) Judi & John Creative Deborah Fulbright Robert Michael Linda & James Renee & Anthony Carla & William Reid Park Zoo Joyce & Neil Vanguard Charitable
Dena & John Blomquist Differences Tori & Jim Gagne Hayes Kuhns Marlon Newell Docents Silverman Endowment
Adams Lawrence Bohlen Karen & Jimmy Kathy Herman Susan Kurtz Toni Marshall & Robert Nicholas Barbara Reinhardt Ellin & Michael Program
Linda Gibboney
Melissa Adde Julie & Robert Creighton Len Hill & Patty Laurie Kydon Suzanne Wood Jeannie & Bruce Nicole Ricci Simmons Kathleen Ventrella
Jay Glass
Affinity Bonnie Lorna Crosby Gordon Ann & Jerome Martin Pierce Nordstrom Linda Riebel Ann & Paul Villa Ford
Global Impact
Relationships Virginia Bound Christopher Hill & Kehne, LLC Lafferty Hardware, Inc. Linda Nordstrom Simonds Amy & Erik Voss
Wendy Globe-Tsien Denise Hogan &
Arun Alagappan Lisa & Francois Crowley Vincent Hillyer Trust Mary Lafler Eric Matthews Norfolk Academy's James Roach Shelley Skinner Margo Walker
Judy & Keith
Viraj Alankar Bourgault Dallas Zoological Jordan Hofer Morgan Lance Estate of Mary Jane Royster Chapter of Leonard C. Roberts Slater Elementary Ruth Ward
Goldberg
Sidney Bowden Society Mayer Roots & Shoots Roots & Shoots
Aloha Fund Goldman Pamela Hokanson Kelly Landes Sheila Roebuck & Amy Wechsler
Ada-Marie Bowers Amy Lynne Susan McCarthy Cherry Norris John Catts Kirk Smith
William Amelio Environmental James Holcomb Nancy & John Marta Weeks
Dannacher Patricia McCoy Northern Light Mark Smith
Joanne Amter Roll Mary Bowes Foundation Ruth Holmberg Landon Barbara Rohde Nancy West
Renee De La Sea Doreen McElvany School Roots & Catherine Smolich
Mary Anderson Sara & Richard Charles Goldsmith, Jr. Ivan Hom Jill LaPlante Lemise & Donald Western
Diane De Olazarra Shoots
Boyatzis Adelaide Gomer Jonathon Lazear Patrick McDonnell Rory Betsy Snyder Connecticut State
Sarah & Nick Amanda Hopkins Martha Oehler
Brandywine Trust Dell Direct Giving Ira McEvoy Amy Klimek & Josh South Dakota University
Armentrout Ann Goodman Mandana Hormozi Diane Ledder &
Company Foundation Alisa O'Leary Roth School of Mines &
Dillu Ashby Grace Cathedral Rick Barongi Susan McGreevy Whalesback
Colin Devine Marla & Mike Houk Kathryn Olson Technology
Jennifer Bresler Roots & Shoots William Leeburg Penelope Breese & Janice Rubel Foundation
Janet Asimov Edward Hui Foundation
Kilbee Brittain Amy Dickinson Stevenson Elizabeth Orr The Sad Foundation James Whitmore
ASPPA Alison Graham & Lilo & Gerard Leeds
Peg & Peter Robert Ing McIlvaine Caroline Orr- Loretta Stadler
Ellen G. Brodsky Richard Messina Andrea & Michael Lillian & Paul Florence Wigley
John Atherton DiGiammarino Verne & Judy Istock Kissner Nancy Stegens
Brodsky Foundation Robert Graham Leeds Family Nellie McKay Sakmar Wilderness Travel
Jean & Ray Auel Christine & Gerald J. Scull Lavonne Painter Joy & Robert
Sara Brydges Alan & Patricia Foundation Marianna McKim Nimish Sanghrajka Catherine Williams
Ann Bacon DiPego Construction Thomas Panico & Steinberg
Laura Buck Graham-Collier Bokara Legendre Toni McNaron Santa Clara Annette Williamson
Jean Jill Docking Service, Inc. Jean Denise Dinan Jay Stephens
Kathryn & Alan C. Leonard Hill Timothy McShea University
Baderschneider Roddey Burdine David & Sinead Chris & Ann Willms
Julia & Patrick Greenberg Foundation Nancy & Charles Save America's Anne Stern
Mark & Roma Jackson Nancy Merrick & Anna Winand
Lyndall & John Dunster Parrish Forests Stevens Family
Burnett Gary Begeman & Victoria Leslie Gary Lairmore
Bailye Charles Durham Janney Robert Paulson Foundation L. Wining
Gail Griffith Kimberly Levesque George Lucas Save-the-Redwoods
Janet A. Baines Isabel Campbell Montgomery Scott, Christopher Wolfe
East School PTC Margi Neale & Tim The Paulus League Frances Stevenson
The Capital Group LLC Judith Levy Virginia Metcalf
Ellen Balaguer Elaine Ebbert Griffith Foundation, Inc. Deb Sawyer & Dan Strode Michael Wood
Companies Joseph Jester Cheryl & James Diane Meyer Simon
Marjorie Balazs Lydia & William Jane & James Melissa Peery Wayne Martinson Suwinski Family Janet & Kimball
Charitable Jewish Communal Lewis Kristen Milke
Barbara Ballinger Edison Griswold Amy & Gary Perlin Michael Scharff Foundation, Inc. Woodward
Foundation Fund Lewis D. Brounell Pamela Miller Peggy & Edgar
Bank of America Care2.com, Inc. Robert Elia & Dana & Marc Guillet Charitable Trust Linda & John Schimmelsmith, Harold W. Sweatt
Kathryn & Doyle Minotaur Woolard
The Baobab Fund Suzanne Jones Jody Gurin & H. Petersen LLC Foundation
Helga Felsch Johnson Peter Limburg Amusements
Patricia & Joseph Gurin Cynthia Pett-Dante Jay Schlossberg William F. Robert Wyman
Phyllis Barlow Caruthers Virginia Johnson Lincoln Financial
Elliott Dorothy Moller Sweetnam Jen-Hui Yao
James Barringer Danyel Dean & H. Angie Gyllenskog Group Foundation, Laura & Thomas Joan Schoenfeld
Elizabeth & Gary Beth Morgan
Peter Castellanos Patsy Ellsworth Diana Hadley Inc. Pew Sony Schotland Denise Szczucki Laurie Young
Bonnie Bartnick Johnston
L. Erlenmeyer- Ann A. Morris Michael Phelps Charlot Taylor Susan & David
Jennifer Bartram Victor Cavdek Angela & Bill Betty & David Connie Lintz & Johanna Schulte-
Kimling Halamandaris John Maginnes Marjorie Morris Chase Pickering Hillen Margaretta Taylor Young
Schantz Basir Glen Ceiley Jones
John Farrell Richard Hall Malia & David Meta Morrison Mark Plotkin Judith Schultz Cindy Taylor- Catherine Zeta-
Frederick Bear Chrysalis David A. Jones
Catherine Faver Litman Meg Mortimer Lloyd Lisenby Jones & Michael
Patricia Beck Foundation Hallmark Corporate Rosalind Kaplan Sue Pohanka Chris & Robert
Douglas
Christ Church Gail & Prentiss E. Foundation Elizabeth Logan Rosemary Moukad Maryann Pollidoroff Schumacher John Templeton
Barbara Bell Kerul Kassel
Parish, Georgetown Feagles Nora Hanke Carol Lushear Thomas Muchisky The Seattle Judith Thompson
Thomas Bell Mariellen & Michael Malcolm Potts
Cingular Matching Anne Ficke Eva Hanks Christa & John Robert Muller Foundation Tides Foundation
Katherine M. B. Keefe General Colin
Gift Center Robert Filer Nancy Hanson Lyons Constance Murray Powell Susan Seligman Robert Toletti
Berger Rosalind & Michael
Jo Clessler Leigh Findlay Mr. & Mrs. George Keiser Felisa & David Nashoba Brooks Jerilyn Prescott John A. Sellon Robert Traut
Jane & Andrew Lyons Charitable Trust
The Cold Brook First Western Bank Harmon Kathie Kingett School of Concord, Barbara & Richard Irene Trautman
Bishop
Fund Candia Fisher Harvard University M&T Investment Inc. Racine Mary Shamrock
Black Hills Kingston City Karen & Harry
Emmanuelle Group National Coalition The Sharon Levine
Corporation Cindy & David Fitch Haskell Fund Schools The Ralph M. Trueheart
Compagnion Piper Mackay of Girls' Schools Parsons Foundation Foundation
Seana Blake Barbara Fitzgerald Hilary Hatfield Austin Kiplinger Trent Tyler
Jeanne Coryell MagIndustries The National Jennifer Randall Anahit Shaterian
Jeffrey Flocken Shannon Hatmaker Zameret Kleiman United Way Of
Virginia & William Anne & Peter Institute for Play, Barbara & David
Jennings Fort Shirleyann Haveson Louise Klein Rapid City Regional Southeastern
Cowie Magoun Inc. Shear
Hospital Pennsylvania
Samuel C. Franklin, Jr. Lynn & Robert Knox Family Network for Good
Creative Artists John Maienza & Agartha Ravelag Diana Wege Mary Urquhart
Cindy Frey Hawkey Foundation
Agency Gregg Wilson The New York Sherogan
Julia Knox-Hudson Marshall & Marion Sarita Van Vleck
Maria Foundation Times Company Kimberly Shriner
Rawson
Richard Kornfeld Foundation
Phyllis & Robert
Matching Gifts
Shustak
Program

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JGI Members
$500–$999

Anonymous Merilou Clapper Phil Fairclough Pamella Nicholas Jones


Richard Abbott Sue Clark Brooke Fancher Gronemeyer & Judy Judd
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Stephen Kriegh
Elizabeth Allen Lawrence Coffman Frederick Farrand JustGive

jgi traveler toni mcnaron Linda Allison


Ameriprise Financial
Mary Coggeshall
Jean Coleman
Marlene Feingold
Ellen Ferguson
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth
Gros-Louis
Suzanne Keith
Joan Kerr
“a local habitation and a name” B. Ross &
Russellene Angel
Carl Condon
Carla Corwin
Will Field
Susan D. Finney
Greta Haag
Tami & Mark Haas
Amanda Ketterer
Desiree Kohan
Michael Hacker
Holly Ardinger Jamie Coulson Bruce Fleming Liz Kohler
John Haddow
Austin TX Roots & Dorothy Crawford Apiwat Ford Kolimbo Select
Spending almost two weeks in Tanzania with 12 like-minded defend- Shoots Frederick Haffner
Crazy Horse F. Ford III Jill Kusba
The Authors Hahamongna Roots
Memorial
ers of wildlife and the environment has changed my life in important Registry, Inc. Foundation
Linda Forsberg & Shoots Stefan Olga Kusznir
Linny Fowler Amanda Hamilton Inaki Lajud
ways. No longer will I write checks based on abstract support for what Jane Avrum Katz Rose Crofutt
Foundation Cynthia & Joseph June Hammack Tracy Lamblin
The Culver Family Freeman
and her creative helpers at JGI are doing. Now I’ll see lions so sated from Betty & Larry Azar Nellie Hansen Doris Langenau
Foundation
Sophie Freeman Catherine Latham
Cindy Bales Diane Dann Claudia Harmon
their wildebeest feed that they flop down to nap just like my kitty does George Barr
Robert French
Marcia Hartwig Rose & Michael
Shirlee Daube
Carl Friese Leiner
after breakfast. I’ll hear Jumane Kikwale telling us, tears in his eyes, Jeanne Barron The Davidson
Sonja Fritsch
Anton Haunstrup
Carole Lewis
William Beech Family Maddie Hayes
about the day when he was 7 (!) and Jane and her mother landed their Kim Behrens Nancy Davies
Blair Fuller
Kristina Healy
Janet & Ramsey
Lori Galperin Lewis
boat on the coast where his father and fellow fishermen were watching to Nancy & Larry Bell H. E. Davis, Jr.
Sam Gandy
Deborah
David Lickerman
Neil Belstock Helen Desai Hebblewhite
see what it would mean that “a lady was coming to study the chimps.” Theodore James Lillibridge
Better Business Joanne Diefenbach Elizabeth Hembree
Gangursky Elizabeth Logan
I’ll conjure up Bill and Paula, Mama and Papa of our safari, being Bureau, Upstate SC Michele Dion Ernest Hendrickson
Gary L. Bailey Fund Loma Vista 4H
Marjorie Blachly Ellen Disparte Noreen & William
Cynthai Gause Club
the first to join the Masai dancers at Crater Lodge, followed eventually by Helen Blackeby Liz Doria Vega
Hetznecker
James Long
Andrew Blumberg Hewlett Packard
all of us weaving our way from dining room to ornate parlor, winning Elspeth Bobbs
Stacy Doscher Mary Gibbons
Alison Hildreth
Kathleen Lowery
Panna Doshi Gordon Gibson Leonard Lucas
broad if quizzical smiles from the dancers. Images of a mother cheetah Edward Bollinger Kathy Doyle Mellaurie Gilmore
Hillsdale Middle
Marilyn Lucas
School
Jennifer Bowman Diana Drever
watching closely to protect her babies while they slept in what Lori Robinson Gale Brick
Evan Giniger Whitney Hines Christa Lyons
Kay Drey Michael Girardi S. Mackler
called “a pile of spots” will stay with me forever. And I will never forget Carole Hoefs
George Bright Ruth Duckworth Tracie & Abraham Mr. & Mrs. Howard Timothy Maher
Alison Brown Elyse Duffy Glazer
standing in the forest at Gombe, having climbed steeply for 45 minutes to Priscilla Browning
Hoffen Virginia Maher
Meredith Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Todd Lesley Hoffmann M J. Malins
reach the range where beloved chimpanzees were beginning their morning, Margaret Beth Dutton A. Goergen
Gerhart Hoffmeister The Margolis
Bumgarner Judy & Keith
listening to the chorus of calls and answers, the declarations of prowess, Janice Eckhardt Hohnstein Foundation
Peggy Bushey Goldberg
Lydia Edison Properties, LLC Shannon Marnell
and the softer coaxings telling the young not to stray too far from mom. Catherine Cahill & Paula Goldman
Danielle & Stephen Lucy Holbrook Mark Maron
William Bernhard Katie Goodpasture
Wayne Edwards Houghton Mifflin Dortha Marquis
As Shakespeare says in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” I have Grace Caines
Donna Edwards Sheila Gordon Company Emily Marshall
Andrea Callahan Wasserman
“a local habitation and a name” for JGI’s work, so my next contribution Barbara Calvo
Mary Ehrmann
Roberta Gould
Jackie Howell Binell Martino
Timothy Eicher Richard Hurley Elizabeth Matysuk
will be sent full of precious memories and deepened gratitude. Karen Campagna
Lollie & Alan
Lori Grace
Elizabeth Irwin Pamela Mazzoline
Martha Campbell Eidsness Otto Graf
Steven Jacobson Richard McArdle
Esther Carpenter Laurie Eisenberg Eleanor Graves
—Toni McNaron, writing about her trip to Africa with the Jane’s Peak Society Michael Jaffe Helen Mccabe
William O. Carter Judith Elliot Linda Greene
Isabel Jessen Jeanne McCarty
Cynthia Chalmers Emily Hall Tremaine Daniel Greenleaf
Faith Johnson George Mccown
Erica Cheverton Foundation Richard Griffith
Harold Johnson Maxine McCrann
Anne Childs Ruth Ewing Jocelyn Grimm
Margery Johnson Jacqueline McDavitt
Facilicorp Leslie Groff
Mateel Johnson Skye Mcdonald

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JGI Members
$250–$499

Jennifer McGarry Geroge Pickering South Hamilton MA Katherine Wade Fatima Judith Barnes Mary Brakebill Clara Cist Valerie Davenport
Sarajane & Sally Martha Pope Roots & Shoots Judith Wagner Abdulhussein The Baron Family Douglas Brassil James Clark Denise David
McInnes Lisa Potts David Spagat Robert Waldman Andrew Abrams Foundation Suzanne Bravender Sheryl Clark Cameron Davidson
Maxine C. Mclain Shelley Powsner Spencer Butte Marjory Walters Harry N Abrams, Inc. Joseph Barone Kevin Brennan Donald Clauser Cynthia Davidson
Lisa McLane Middle School Susan Acampora Gregory Bartha
Lauren Prause Lisa Wan Hilda Brennand Mary Clemesha Dona Davidson
Anna McWane Vincent Spoto William Ackerman Susan Bassion
Quadra Foundation, Inc. Matthew Alene Bricken Beth Climo Louise Davidson
M Meno St Bernard's School, Inc. Wasserman Jennifer Adair Liz Bauer
Sharon Quarles Michael Briselli Candice Clough Karen Davis
Susan Merideth St Clement School Stacey Wellman Karen Adam Ted Bayer
The Raynie Marian Brodsky William Clovis Mia Davis
Charles Merrill Foundation The St. Patrick's Wellpoint Associate Laura Adams BD Roxanna Brom Margaret Clucas Bernice Day
Green Team Giving Campaign
George Miers Susan Reichel Susan Adams Anne Becker Robert Brooks Arnold Cohen Lynn Day
Margot Steinberg Ginne Westfall
Milligan Gayle Rettig Theodore Adams Margie Kathryn Brown Daniel Cohen Albert De Arbre
Marilyn Steinbright Mark Whalen Becker-Lewin
Dale Missimer Judith Ricci Moreen Addison Marilyn Brown Shelley Cohen Laura Deane
Linda Stephens Mary Gwen Elizabeth
Betsy Mitchell Rincon Foundation Mary Aegerter Suzanne Brown Carol Colclough Jacques Delli Paoli
Cathy Stephenson Wheeler & David A. Becker-Warne
Elsie Mitchell Robert Rhue Mary Akstinas Thomas Brown Michael Cole Jennifer Deloach
Sheila Stinson Jones, Jr. John Bedda
Susan Moldow Enterprises, Inc. Karla Alfano
Helen Widick Violet Brown Sophia Coleman Pamela DeMoor
Florence Roberts Meredith Stoddard Ellen Beek
Edith Monsees Lisa Algee Robert Brunson Lucy Colman Nancy Denton
Catharine Strauss Jeanne Wiebenga Melinda Bell
Jan Montgomery Helene Roberts Ann Allen
Alice Wilbur Renee Budak Karen Commins Louise Devine
Charlotte Robinson Barbara Streeten Benjamin Silliman
Rise Moody Elizabeth Allen Maralyn Budke Concord CA Jennifer Diaz
Weona Sutton William Penn Gray Fund
Joan Moran Howard Roffman Susan Allison Roots & Shoots
Charter School Tim Bennett Linda Bunker Tamra Dickerson
Bruce Rubin Jane Swotes
Morgan Stanley Kathryn Williams Audrey Alsop Michael Buratto Congressional Craig Dill
Linda Tabor-Beck Jennifer Benoit
The Morrison & Jay Sandrich Amgen Foundation Youth Leadership
Karen Wilson Jo Berger Ronald Burde Mary Dillon
Foerster Foundation Steven Sarnoff Barbara Tanner Matching Gifts Council, Inc.
Wilton CT R&S Candice Bergmann Eunice Burley Nancy Dix
Joyce Murphy Frank Scafani Byron Thompson Program Serena Connelly
Deborah Wolfman S. Berliner Louis Buron Linda Dixon
Joe Murray Diana Schmidt Christopher Charles Anderson Frances Cook
Thompson Edwin Woods Barbara Berman Suzanne Butterfield Joan Dobbs
Kiera Murray Ann Schroeder Kimberly Anderson Michael Cosaboom
Mitchell Tobias Bud Yorkin Carol Berman Cheryl Byrd Catherine Dodd
Erika Nave Gene Schroeder Elizabeth Angell Dorothy Counts
Loretta Tomasello Michael D. Zatto Anna Bernhard James Cable Carol Doehring
Harold Neave Diana Schumaker Animal Relief Fund Michael Courlander
Mary Trachsel Heidi Zawelevsky Virginia Bertrando Mary Calomiris Caroljoan Donovan
Thomas Nelson James Schwab Keiko Aoki James Coward
Frederick & Steve Zolotow Beth L. "Daryl" Nora Cameron Cynthia Dostal
Carol Neustadter Helen Scott Janet Armstrong Timothy Coy
Shelley Treyz Davis Charitable Carol Camparsi Glenna Dowling
Susan Nicholas Sandra Seidenfeld Johnny & Karen Robert Craven
Tropical Salvage Foundation Trust Capacity Partners Edith Drake
Armstrong Marcy Crede-Booth
Robert Nooter Service Systems Linda Bickham
Trumbull CT Cherie Arruda Elaine Card Fred Dressler
Athena Novak Associates Creekside Roots &
Roots & Shoots Joy Biedermann Frank & Yvette Gerhard Dubois
Kristina Severance Ann Ash Shoots
John O'Connell Natalie Turnage Carol Bingham Carlucci
Marian Ash Kathy Crespino Eva Duggins
Organic Bouquet Linda Sheridan
Phyllis Turner Steve & Nancy George Carneal Joseph Dulude
Julia Sherwin Russel Atha Wendy Crespo
Karen O'Shea Jon Ukman Bissell Sybil Carof
Betty Atkins Tom Cristo Joseph Dunigan
Elizabeth Page Michael Sherwin Dana Blackwell
Craig Umans Linda Carroll Gertrude Dunlop
Gloria Shilling Roger & Janet John Croall
The Pajwell Robin Underwood Kara Blain Dianne Cartwright
Atkinson Phyllis Cromwell Carolyn Eady
Foundation David Sielaff D. Bobbitt
United Technologies Mark Aulman Mike Casey William Edison
Patricia Patterson Marian Siljeholm Anna Culmer
United Way Of Michael Bobryk Sue Casey James Edwards
Avon Products Linda Cunningham
Terrance Paul John Silver New York City Laurie Boccia
Foundation Chancellor Emmons Ellis
Terri Payne Elizabeth Simon Timothy Curry
University of Cheryl Bacon Gertrude F Bock Livingston
Cecilia Curtis Tony Ellis
Michelle A Peacock Julie Simons Alabama, Birmingham Barbara Bogart Elementary School
Suzanna Bailey Miriam Elmaleh
Edgar Peara Patricia Simpson The University of Gillian Chappell Mark Curtis
Maria Baker Bonney Lake WA Connie Elsberg
Pamela Pearson Edwin Sisson Arizona Roots & Shoots Terry Charbonneau The Cusack Family
Nancy Baker Helen Emmerson
J. G. Penson Sisters of St Mary University Of Kathleen Bordisso Lewis Chartock Sandra D'Amata
California Sharon Baker Empire Stat, Inc.
Nancy & John of Oregon Erika Bouguignon Chevy Chase Abbas Daneshvari
Campus School Robert Vavra Denise Bakewell Charlotte Epstein
Penson Sean Boyer Judy Chen Roberta Danko
June Slaughter Seeske Versluys Rebecca Barchas Kris Erdall
Geoffrey Peters Lowell Boyers John Cherry Beverly Dann
Kumaran Vijayakumar Maripat Elizabeth Ericson
Keith Petersen Joel Boylan Kevin Christensen Sara D'Arce
Barlow-Layne Estate of Patricia
Steve Phillips Elizabeth Boylston Betty Churchill Elaine Daubner
Ann Lacy
Sally Phinny

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Lana Ethridge Gecko Design Ronald Hansen Christina Huffman Cynthia King Alan Levenson Ken Mayer Audrey Needles Marianne Perlak
Linda Evans Eugenia Gengler Lauren Hanson Sheila Huffman Deborah King Barbara Lewis Nancy Maynard James Nelson Anne Perretta
Pamela J Fair Mary Genz David Harder Vanessa Hull Elizabeth King David Lewis Dorcas M. Mc Thea Nelson Kathryn Person
Elizabeth Faircloth Mary Getten David Hardt Patsy Humphrey Denise Dorothy Lewis Donald Nelson Timothy Petrella
A. Fatherree Nancy Gilbert Lisa Harkrider Leonora Hurst Kirshenbaum Semon Lilienfield, Melinda Mccune Neuman & Vincent Petrelli
Luba Fedus Bernadette Gilbride Marietta Harris IBM Virginia Kisska Robert Lindgren Irene Mcginnis Associates Gail Peyton
Barbara Feldman Allisyn Gillet Brenda Harrison Gay Infanti Cynthia Klinksiek Clarice Lindner Mary Mcguinness New London NH The Pfizer
J.M. Klopp Jean Mcpherson Roots & Shoots Foundation
Arthur Field John Gillett Thomas Harvey Katherine Iosif Lion Country Safari,
Pamela Kocourek Inc. George T. Andrew Newman Matching Gift
Mary Finch James Gillilan John Hata Julie Irwin
Mcwhorter Max Newman Program
Elizabeth Finkler Bruce Girrell Nandine Hatvany Marjorie Isaac Randolph Kohler Little Silver Animal
Hospital Elliott Medrich May Newton Burt Phannemiller
Carol Fisher Colleen Gish Eric Hayes Ann Iversen Saul Kohn
Robert Litwak Michelle Mekus Peggy Nichols Joyce Phillips
Gordon Fisk Lisa Gluck William Hayes Liza Jabaley Peter Korngold
Donald Lliechty Robert Menzi Sheila Nicklas M. Phillips
Jennifer Fleck Goerlich Family Lora Heiny Carole Jackson Richard Krakowski
Los Angeles CA Wendy Menzie Michael O. Nimkoff Raymond Picciano
Kakert Foundation, Inc. Thomas Hellmich Elizabeth An David Kramer
Roots & Shoots Timothy Michael Leslie Nixon Joanne Pierce
Nancy Flynn Marcy Goldenberg Valerie Henderson Jackson Jennifer Krauser
Nancy Lott- Patricia Michels Not Jut Us Nuri Pierce
Peter Fogliano Steve Goldsmith Doris Hendricks Behnaz Jalali Helena Kriel
Schlicher Foundation Jaana Piira
Laura Ford Cindy Goral Wendy James Corliss Krivoy Robert Miles
Diane Henry April Lsolff
Jan Milner Susan Nugent Pioneer Elementary
Sarah Ford Kimberly Gorall Donald Hertzmark Charles Jaris Nicole Krug
Lisa Lucheta Caroline Nunan Roots & Shoots
Candy Forstmann Joyce Gorman Amandeep Jawa Gergory Kulon Frank Minafo
Gerdika Hesche- Don Ludewig David Piper
Minneapolis Sally Obre
Barbara Foss Bobby Gormus Elberfeld Joseph Jeffries Surender Kumar
Wendy Ludlow Foundation Jessica Oei Albert Pipke
Allen Fosse Benjamin Gorsky Anne Hess Emily Jenkins Ronald Kunkel
Melissa Ludtke Steven Modell Katherine Oliver Sarah Pitari-Hugo
Renee Foster Kimball Gottschall Polly Heyward Linda Jennings Sue Labudde
D. Lukac Oliver Moench Alfred Olivi Sherri Poan
Kim Fox-Gunderson Katherine Gould- John Higgins Margaret Jobes Lauren Lake
Robin Lukacs Diana Monteith- Sohair Omar Michael Poder
Jennifer France Martin Eileen Hiney Diana Johnson Jennifer Lambdin
Marjorie Lulay Rubin Alan Omens Patricia Pope
Lauri Franks Sadhana Goulston Martin Dorsett Johnson Landsberg
Stephen Lyne Montessori School Paul ONeil John Porter
Bruce Fraser Deborah Grace Hochsteinaltschul Leigh Johnson Norman Langill
Cathleen MacAuley Roots & Shoots Rene Potter
Gail Granewich Gary Hoffman Remy O'Neill
Freedman Broder Margaret Mary Royce Lapp Sara Montgomery
Lynda Macdonald Elizabeth Orr Anne Powell
Company Mark Graney Lisa Hoffman Johnston Andrea Lapsley
Patricia MacDonald Sierra Moon George Powell
John Freeman Cynthia Gray Matthew Hoffmeyer Robert Johnston Julie Oswald
Carmen Lasar Barbara F Morales
Lawrence Edith Overly Patricia Pratt
Friars Joanna Grossman W. G. J. Hol Donna Jones Late July Snacks Machtinger Margaret Moreney Wendy Price
Karen Friedel John Guest Harvey Holland Katherine Jones Pauli Owens
Lynn Lawson Laurance Mackallor Katharine Morgan
Nieba Paige Primate
Irene Friedman Marcie Guidry Melanie Holmes Sylvia Kafka Craig Lazarus Craig Madsen Vicki Morgan Conservation Inc.,
Carole Fritz Geralyn Gulseth Jack Hook Eila O. Kairinen Joubin Pakpour
Diane Lazuta Torben Madson Sheila Morris Roots & Shoots
Nicola Fritz James Gutman Dorothea M Hoover Emily Kaplan Deborah
Sylvie Le Blancq Ann Maier Mark Morrow Stephen Prine
Pannabecker
Claudia Gall Valerie Guy C. Hornig Connie Kapp Dina Lea Karen Pugh
George Mallis Monte Morton Ronald Panzer
Gisela Gall Karen Halac Catherine Hoss Elyssa Kates Sarah Leahy Alice Pulver
Meera Manahan Kristin Mosher Ario Pardee
Nancy Garruba Ericka Hamburg Fred Houchens M. Keating Cheri Leavitt Sandra Rabb
Julaine Marburger Judith Moss Rebecca Parekh
Margo Garton Elizabeth Hamilton Margaret Hough Beatrice B. Keats Sue Lebby Susan Rafaj
Karl Marhenke Pendleton Fred Parham
Carole Gathman Lee Hamilton Molly Houston Gayle Keefer Leslie LeBeau Moudrianakis Allison Rahs
Valerie Marini Deborah Parker
Kari Gaudette Samuel Hanger Jean Howard Kathleen Keith John Lebedda Virginia Mudd Michele Raimondi
JoAnn Marino Cindy Patterson
Anna Gavarro Robert Hanies Adele Howe Bruce Kelly Mary Lee Susan Mullen Sue Ramage
Jacqueline Mars Sharon Paul
Ann Gayer Jeanne Hansen Meghan Hudson John Kern Michelle Lee Salvatore Murdocca Edward Rampone
Ervin Martin Mary Pawlowski
Kirsten Hansen Sandra Hudyma Ketel Thorstenson, Julie Lele Cindy Murrell Anne Randolph
Tammy Martin Jean Payne
John Huesh LLP
Scott Lemons Dianne Marxe Judith Nadai Donna Rasmussen
Meredith Kindschi Robert Pegel
Eleanor Leo Melissa Masland Maureen Nash Bonnie Rathjen
Ann Pemble
Dennis Leong Cherie Mason Ronald Nason Ellen Rauch
John Pereira
Eric Lethe Becky Mathis Nora Natof Thomas Reavely
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JGI ’ S DONOR FAMILY

Jane Goodall’s Bequests and


Circle of Hope Estate Gifts

Judy Recker Marvin Scherl Maile Statuto William Tucker Kenda Weiman The following Estate of DigitalGlobe Pearson Foundation
David Redish Lorry Schneider Stephen Steele Jocelyne Tufts Suzanne individuals have George D. Cornell Disney VoluntEARS Dee Ann Pederson
Weinheimer included the Jane Helen E. Gates
Amy Reed Nancy Schrader Susan Steif Walter Turner ELS Planet Green
Goodall Institute in Revocable Trust
Marcia Reiter Schwab Fund for Debbie Steinfink Carol Tuttle Robert Weisner ESRI Steve Rasmussen
their estate plans,
Charitable Giving Nancy Weiss Vincent L. Hillyer Trust
Renaissance Stacie Stick Donna Twarog ensuring that we can Google Earth Lori Robinson
Monkey Audrey Schwebel Linda Welch continue to make a Juliana Kickert Trust
Shannon Stone Unitarian Jonathan Granoff Roger Smith Hotel
Mildred Rendl- Seligman Universalist Allison Wells difference for all living Estate of
Ann Strate Judith Gross Galvin Rossdale
Marcus Community Church things generations Patricia L. Lacy
Kimberly Selzman A Stringer Nancy Werner- half-full design Cyril Ruoso
Robert Resnik of Rockville Azarski from now. Marjorie Lambert Trust
Diana Serquina Chas Strochansky John Henderson Greg Schaler
Marty Rhea Unitarian Gloria Weston Dorothy D.
Erika Seshadri Barbara Struble Barbara Herzog Science Application
Universalist Church Anonymous Marsan Trust
Dianne Rhodes Adaline Sevlin Sandra Whelan International Corp.
Mary Stuart of Spokane Roots & Dorothy K. Estate of Lisa Hinson
Claude Richard Ben Shamah Shoots Sarah White Stacey Shelton
Pauline Stuart Cinquemani Mary Jane Mayer Hogan & Hartson
Jonathan Richman Deborah Shea United Way, Inc. Doug Whiteman Cindy and Paul
Susan Studd Rick & Lauren Eve E. Vieregge Trust David S. Holloway
Chris Ricord Laura Shillam United Way Special Larry Whitlow Coffman Shortt
Theresa Stuesser Hot Mom’s Club of
L. Rigg Marion Shive Distribution Account Mary Wicks Margareta Shakerdge Los Angeles Connie Steensma
Doris Sudeen
Tonia Rilea Chris Shlepr Dorothy Sumner Dona Upson Joanne Wiedey Cottington In-Kind Jeffrey Prehn Town and Country
April Rivkin Eileen Shoemaker Xavier Urrutia Renee Wiggins Dorie Cranshaw
Donations Photography Rentals
Sun West
Evelyn Roberson Pamela Van Arsdale Cdmh. Willard Mistique Angel Davis Joy Hotchkiss Mira Tweti
Stan Siegel Consultants A Vista Events
Bay Roberts Madge Van Buskirk Bonnie Williams Ruth Duckworth IEP Audio Visual US Geological
Adam Sikora Jane Swalling ADAAWE Survey
Pamela Roberts Larry Silver Rhonda Swanberg Alan Van Norman Dave Williams Charles Durham Images of Nature
Michael Aisner University of
Ralph F. Robertson Trinidad Vaquera Elaine Williams Bonnie Lee Hohnstein Galleries
Lois Simons Elizabeth Swann American Tent Southern California
Carol Robillard Rebecca Vassallo R. Williams George & Phyllis Rami Jaffee
Margaret Simons Topo Swope Company Walt Disney World
David Rochester Steven Velasco Monica Williford Johanson Tom Johnson
Dawn Simpkins Alan Takahashi Andrew Mellon Resort
Bradley Rock Dinesh Jean Willis-Long Herb Lafair Auditorium Don Kendall
Theresa Siskind Ruth Tankersley Bart Walter
Barbara F Rodes Venkateswaran Charlotte Wilson James J. MacAfee & Animal Planet James Knowles
Nancy Skeels Jane Tarr Miriam Westervelt
Linda Rogers Martin Vezer Nancy Wilson Susan Lefferts Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Jay R. Kost
Carolyn Skiffington Gretchen Tatsch William J. Whatley
Shelley Roos Frank S. Vierra Irving Wladawsky R. Levin Arbor Day Foundation Allene Lapides
Diane Skolnique Donna Taylor Wildflower Linens
Carolyn Rosenberg Frank Vineyard Michael Wood Milo Long Dr. Rick Asselta Lee Salem
Hy Slepicoff Imogen Taylor Clancy Wolf
Robert Voiles Karen Lovett Photography
Elaine Rosenfeld Ann Smisek Margaretta Taylor Steven Wood Atmosphere Lighting Woods Hole
Charles von Damm Carol Lushear David M. Lorraine
Janis Rosenthal Bertha Smith Pamela Taylor Linda Woodworth Lynn Bartsch Research Center
Mark Vossler Connie Lintz & John Sergio Lub
Rachel Rosenthal Brian Smith Robert Taylor Working Assets Jessica Beauchamp
Sallyann Wagoner Maginnes Thomas D.
Jean Ross Elizabeth Smith John Tembeck Marilyn Workman Brett Beckner
Ms. Claire Manber Mangelsen
William Roush J. Gregory Smith Frederick Test Margaret Ann Wright Marc Bekoff
Wainwright Cherie Mason MarcPark Valet
Steven Rovnyak Norman Smith Ann Thayer Nancy Wright Bingham
K. Wakefield Toni McNaron Eric Matthews
Lesley Rowe Smith Barney Leanne Thomassen Betty Wrightson Mary Bowen
Carolyn Walker Sam & Sylvia Messin Susan Maxwell
Pat Ruch Charitable Trust, Inc. Amy Thompson Wendie Keely & Pierce
Lynn Walker Brigitte Pohle Patrick McDonnell
Alice Russell Ruth Snyder Wunderwald Brosnan
Patty Thompson and Karen O’Connell
Susan Wallace Barbara Yared Anne Powell California Science
Wondie Russell George Sodowick Sally Thorpe MDA Federal, Inc.
Susan Wallace O. Ydrogo Marilyn Preusse Center
Merritt Sale Sara Soens Janet Tidemann Memories of African
Warners Making A Diane Yeager Keith Ross & Chuck Chaapel
Allison Sallen Walter Sokel Virginia Torrance Culture
Difference Val Hilde C.H.E.E.T.A Primate
Claire Samuel Kenneth Soloman William Yeates Dan Miller
Jessica Tovrov Katherin Warren Diane Marie Scott & Sanctuary, Inc.
Danny Sangster Joseph Soruco Edie Yentis The Nature
Christopher Tower Roxanne Warren M. Florence Oliverio Dale Chihuly
Lloyd M. Sara Nancy Soulette Yogi and Company, Conservancy
Margaret Town William Wasserman Donald & Chuck’s Parking
LLC Andy Nelson
Gaile Sarma John Spicer Joseph Trachtman Barbara Seavy
Patricia Watters Amber York City of Los Angeles
Margot Saxer Maria Spinelli Virginia Trepanier Mr. Robert Shacht Michael Neugebauer
Anne Weaver Wendy Young Clark’s Litho
Michael Schaaf Eileen Spring Elizabeth Trexler Barbara & Mary Lynn Oliver
Kenneth Weikal Judy Zacharius David Shear Creative Technologies
Warren Schacter Theresa Stanley Timothy Troendle Organic Bouquet
Patricia Zajec Ms. Margrit Spear Peggy Dahlquist
Susan Schapiro State of California Allison Trolan Organic Interior
Judy Zibbell Lewellyn R. Winchell Mary Daly Designs
Joanne Zimbler Dataprise, Inc. Mary Paris and Bill
Susan Zirko Dave’s Flowers Woolam
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JGI - USA 2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS JGI SENIOR STAFF JGI WORLDWIDE LOCATIONS

JGI AUSTRALIA
www.janegoodall.org.au
JGI AUSTRIA
www.janegoodall.at
JGI-USA 2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS JGI SENIOR STAFF JGI BELGIUM
www.janegoodall.be
DR. JANE GOODALL , DBE WILLIAM B . JOHNSTON ,President, JGI-USA
U.N. Messenger of Peace KEITH BROWN , Executive Vice President, Africa Programs JGI CANADA
Founder www.janegoodall.ca
MARY NORMAN , Senior Vice President, Development and Communications
GENEVIEVE DI SAN FAUSTINO NONA GANDELMAN , Vice President, Marketing JGI CARRIBEAN
Founding President rasselta@janegoodall.org
VIRGINIA LANDAU, PHD, Vice President, ChimpanZoo rootsandshoots.puertorico@yahoo.com
DAVID SHEAR MARY LEWIS, Vice President, Outreach / Assistant to Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE USA JGI CHINA-BEIJING
Chairman GEORGE STRUNDEN , Vice President, Africa Programs
4245 North Fairfax Drive www.jgichina.org
DAVID J. MILLER ALEXANDRA THORNTON , Vice President, Public Policy
Suite 600
Vice-Chairman JGI CHINA-CHENGDU
Arlington, VA 22203 www.jgisw.bokee.com
Tel 800.592.JANE POGO DAVIS
www.janegoodall.org Treasurer JGI CHINA-JIANXI
www.jgi-nanchang.org
JGIinformation@janegoodall.org SUSAN L . SAKMAR
Secretary JGI CHINA-SHANGHAI
www.jgi-shanghai.org
WILLIAM B . JOHNSTON
President, JGI-USA JGI CONGO
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JGI FRANCE
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JGI GERMANY
www.janegoodall.de
JGI HONG KONG
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JGI HUNGARY
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JGI ITALY
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JGI JAPAN
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JGI NETHERLANDS
HELEN CLAIRE RICK BARONGI www.janegoodall.nl
PATTY DEDOMINIC CANDICE BERGEN
JGI SINGAPORE
VIVIAN LOWERY DERRYCK KEELY SHAYE BROSNAN hartung@starhub.net.sg
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JGI SOUTH AFRICA
DR. WILLIAM HALAMANDARIS JOAN BROWN CAMPBELL www.janegoodall.org.co.za
EVA HALLER YVON CHOUINARD
JGI SPAIN
DONALD KENDALL WHOOPI GOLDBERG www.janegoodall.es
ALLENE LAPIDES JONATHAN GRANOFF
JGI SWEDEN
GEORGE MACRICOSTAS ANGELINA JOLIE www.swedenchimp.se
MARY LYNN OLIVER RICHARD LEAKEY
JGI SWITZERLAND
CHASE PICKERING THOMAS MANGELSEN www.janegoodall.ch
DR. JAMES ROACH STEVEN ROCKEFELLER
JGI TAIWAN
SUSAN ANSCHUTZ-RODGERS JOHN SIMPSON www.goodall.org.tw
HAROLD SCHWARTZ JEFF WALD
JGI TANZANIA
LEKHA SINGH WANGARI MAATHAI jgi-tanzania@africaonline.co.tz
CONNIE STEENSMA E .O. WILSON
JGI UGANDA
PAUL WINTER info@jgiuganda.org
JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN
JGI UK-LONDON
RICHARD WRANGHAM www.janegoodall.org.uk
MOHAMMED YUNUS
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JGI DONOR SPOTLIGHT

Marjorie Ferguson Lambert


A Trailblazer for Women As an anthropologist
and a JGI Supporter and archeologist,
Marjorie helped pioneer
Like Jane Goodall, Marjorie Ferguson
ethnohistorical and
Lambert had a passion for animals, particularly
ethnoarcheological
primates. Also, like Jane, she had a passion
techniques by hiring
for learning, she made scientific knowledge
Native American and
accessible to a general audience, and she was
Hispanic men as crew members on her excavations
instrumental in changing the course of history
and incorporating their oral histories into her analyses
with her work. It is people like Marjorie that
of the past — an approach taken by few archeologists
make the world a richer place.
at the time.
From a very young age, Marjorie was
In 1960, Marjorie made one of her greatest
interested in prehistory, especially Egyptology.
discoveries while exploring a cave near the Mexican
If Marjorie were born today, it wouldn’t surprise
border — she found a hunting net woven entirely of
anyone to learn that she would go on to study
human hair. Measuring 151 feet long and estimated
anthropology and archaeology. But Marjorie was
to be about 600 years old, the net is the largest, finest
born in 1908 — a time when it was not at all
human hair net ever found in the Americas.
typical for women to pursue higher education,
Throughout her life, Marjorie was generous —
let alone advanced degrees.
generous with her time, her knowledge, her skills,
Marjorie was a trailblazer. She not only earned
her resources. More than ten years before she died,
a bachelor’s degree in social anthropology
Marjorie began supporting the work of the Jane
from Colorado College in 1930, she also
Goodall Institute with annual gifts.
earned a master’s degree in archaeology and
Today, Marjorie continues to support JGI through
anthropology from the University of New
a generous bequest from her will. We are forever
Mexico. From there, she went on to become a
grateful for friends like Marjorie — without them our
professional archaeologist and museum curator.
work would not be possible.
During her 60-plus-year career, Marjorie
left a mark not only on southwestern Thanks to writer Shelby J. Tisdale and El Palacio
anthropology, archeology and history, but also for historical information.
helped carve out a path for future generations
of female scientists.

JGI DONOR EVENTS

jgi’s first annual global leadership awards celebrations

JGI HELD BICOASTAL EVENTS TO JANE MET WITH TED TURNER, JGI PRESIDENT BILL JOHNSTON
HONOR GLOBAL LEADERS WHO WAS HONORED FOR
RESPONSIBLE ACTIVISM IN MEDIA
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year as we worked to protect chimpanzees, engage
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Dear JGI Members & Friends, communities in conservation and sustainable development, SMALL PORTRAIT OF
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know, I spend some 300 days a year travelling, vines to chew on the pith; and Frodo — no of our biggest successes in 2007 was introducing Shoots members who are protecting endangered
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and as I write this, I am staying in the Governor’s longer alpha male, but looking magnificent again our TACARE program to villages in the eastern sea turtles. An artist had created the most
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I’ve been to Perth, Alice Springs and Adelaide. world has been watching film of the Gombe in an effort to protect a forested corridor between laying her eggs and baby turtles making their way
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the amazing people I meet who are working to These kinds of successes are due to the hard This is exactly the kind of grass roots response
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of chimpanzees using and making tools, hunting


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make a better world. Especially the youth involved and eating meat, raising offspring. It changed the work of staff in Africa and all over the world. I we are seeing in Africa, and it is wonderful to see
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in our Roots & Shoots program. Manoj Gautam way people thought about animals, helped us to founded JGI in 1977 to support the research at it spreading! (We were told later that 36 registered
Roots & Shoots members visited more than 60 Sears stores across F. TURMO / THE JANE
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and his group in Nepal, for example, go through Gombe, and JGI has achieved so much since R&S groups sprung up after my visit.)
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realize there is no sharp line dividing humans


the United States to represent Roots & Shoots and take part in the CHRISTIN JONES / THE
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rebel-held territory weekly to teach reading and then. We celebrated our 30th anniversary with two As you may know, every year I observe the UN
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from the rest of the animal kingdom.


event. The in-store program generated a $25 donation to Roots &
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Shoots for each qualifying Kenmore Elite® dishwasher sold between 37:

writing to children who are forced to work in eco-friendly celebrations (one in LA, one in DC) International Day of Peace. In 2007, I celebrated
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able to reach a new audience with a key Roots & Shoots message —
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October 28 and November 7, 2007. Through this exposure, we were
coal mines. They are seeking to give these related to Gombe. The Jay Pritzker Foundation that included the inaugural Jane Goodall Institute twice — once in New York with newly appointed
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children tools to escape poverty and its stigma. awarded JGI a three-year grant to expand our Global Leadership Awards, honoring former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and once in
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Their courage is inspiring, and their dedication TACARE program in western Tanzania. president of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa, the Los Angeles. Accompanied by more than 25
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is the sort I see in Roots & Shoots youth all Masito-Ugalla is south of the Greater Gombe Honorable Patrick Leahy, Ted Turner, our Roots & Shoots groups, I joined a parade of 45
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over the world. Ecosystem, where JGI partners with villages to steadfast corporate partner Patagonia, and our Giant Peace Doves in Griffith Park. We reflected
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first Roots & Shoots Youth Fellow, Chase on the universal human yearning for peace and
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Pickering. what we can do together to bring that about.


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As you are probably aware, in 2007 many There were many other unforgettable moments
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Although the challenges seem daunting at times, this is the only way was a new brand of coffee called Gombe Reserve. This coffee upholds
people seemed to wake up to the urgency of our in the year — too many to include here. The most
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all of Green Mountain’s fair trade standards and also bears the
environmental problems. I will never forget important thing I can say now is that your
to make lasting change — one life at a time. PAGES 16–17: PAGE 44:

speaking before 80,000 people during the Live support is what makes our success possible.
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People always want to hear the latest news create environmentally sustainable livelihoods and Earth concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Whether it is a young chimpanzee who has a
coffee grows in harmony with chimps in one of their last remaining PAGE 19: PAGE 47:

about the Gombe chimpanzees — and there are restore the forest for chimpanzees and humans After I gave a chimp greeting and spoke for my second chance at a happy life in our sanctuary,
habitat areas. It provides farmers an incentive to preserve the forest TOP: M. NELSON / THE COURTESY PAT BECK
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always new stories to tell. For example, alike. In the Masito-Ugalla area there are relatively allotted three minutes, I asked the audience: a child who joins Roots & Shoots and finds an
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quality-control methods, a chance at economic stability.
chimpanzee Gaia’s attempts to rear a child have “Up in the north, the ice is melting — what will it outlet for his or her desire to create a better
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few people, and we’re anxious to work with them


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been thwarted twice — Gaia’s mother Gremlin take to melt the ice in the human heart?” world, or an African village that is planting trees
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to prevent the terrible deforestation and


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stole her first baby (who later died) and Gaia’s overcrowding that has afflicted the Gombe area. During 2007 I traveled throughout Asia, seeing and starting small, sustainable businesses, we are
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second baby was stillborn. We don’t know yet The Tanzanian government is an important firsthand not only the terrible environmental truly changing lives. Although the challenges
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why Gremlin took the first baby, but it is partner in our conservation, development and devastation but also the efforts to raise seem daunting at times, this is the only way to
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community development program in Guinea, West Africa. With Alcoa’s

mysteries of this sort that make the study so education efforts. In September, JGI held a conservation awareness. I took part in a R&S make lasting change — one life at a time. From
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fascinating. It’s sad that I’m only able to visit youth summit in Beijing, and in Nepal I the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping
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dinner in New York for Tanzanian President


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Gombe twice a year, but to spend time sitting by Jakaya Kikwete, a true statesman whom I hold in experienced an unforgettable tree planting us to reach out to so many people and to help so
where Alcoa has investments in bauxite mining. The grant also funded BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT:
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that most spiritual place, the Kakombe Waterfall, high personal esteem. As I sat beside him, we ceremony that incorporated the chanting of many animals.
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or up on “the Peak,” takes me right back to the Hindu priests. It was a wedding celebration — for
communities. Businesses developed included restoration of
talked about his ambitious development policies
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early ’60s. The years drop away and I recapture to combat poverty whilst improving the the trees! In Singapore, I was overwhelmed by a With my love,
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the absolute joy I knew as a 26-year-old exploring environment. He told me he would like to be “wildlife stampede,” when more than 700 youth
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a magic new world. remembered as the president who protected and costumed as endangered plants and animals
Often I spend my time at Gombe with a film restored his land. paraded to raise conservation awareness.
team. Recently an Animal Planet crew was able to I had a few amazingly busy days in India —
film several chimpanzees at length: Gremlin and visiting New Delhi, Kolcutta, Mumbai and Jane Goodall
her twins feeding in a palm tree; Fanni and her Chennai. I spent a fabulous afternoon on the
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“Wouldn’t it be terrible if our closest relatives disappeared during our watch?


It doesn’t have to happen. The key is to understand that a viable future for wild
chimpanzees can’t be achieved without helping the struggling human communities
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around them. And, that long-term change in Africa and elsewhere won’t happen
without engaging youth. These connections are at the heart of JGI’s work on behalf
of people, animals and the environment.”
FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH , EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
— Jane Goodall
2007 JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT SAVED THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES BY USING NEW LEAF RENICARNATION 100 ( FSC ) ,
MANUFACTURED WITH ELECTRICITY OFFSET BY GREEN - E ® CERTIFIED RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES , 100% POST- CONSUMER WASTE ,
AND PROCESSED CHLORINE FREE : 58 FULLY GROWN TREES , 25,046 GALLONS OF WATER , 42 MILLION BTUS OF ENERGY, 2,801 POUNDS
OF SOLID WASTE , AND 5,463 POUNDS OF GREENHOUSE GASES .

© 2008 THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE C 100% RECYCLED FIBER , 100% POST- CONSUMER WASTE , PROCESSED CHLORINE FREE .

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