Fact Sheet
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
A global community of concerned individuals striving for a better world
Founded by renowned primatologist Jane
Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute is a global
non-profit organisation that empowers people
to make a difference for all living things. We
are creating healthy ecosystems, promoting
sustainable livelihoods and nurturing new
generations of committed, active citizens
around the world.
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PROGRAMS & PROJECTS:
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Roots & Shoots is the Institute’s global
environmental and humanitarian
education program. SEE “Roots &
Shoots” FACT SHEET.
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African Sanctuaries - Chimp Guardian.
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
contributes to the support of two African
sanctuaries (Democratic Republic of
Congo and Uganda) where 161 orphan
chimpanzees are provided with long-term
care and rehabilitation.
MISSION:
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada supports
wildlife research, education and conservation.
We promote informed and compassionate
action to improve the environment shared by all
Earth’s living creatures.
OBJECTIVES:
In Canada, our Chimp Guardian program
allows individuals to support the lifesaving work at our sanctuaries and to help
curb illegal poaching throughout Africa.
SEE “Sanctuaries” FACT SHEET.
The objectives of the Jane Goodall Institute of
Canada are, in no order of importance:
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Increase Canadian awareness of and
compassion for the plight of endangered
animals, with a focus on chimpanzees.
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Foster public understanding of the
interconnected nature of the human, animal
and ecological community.
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Increase support for habitat and species
conservation, particularly for wild
chimpanzees.
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Promote activities that ensure the well-being
of wild and captive chimpanzees.
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Provide training in and support for
environmental and humanitarian education
and action.
Inspire and engage Canadians to take action
in local and global environmental and
humanitarian initiatives.
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TACARE, is a community centred
conservation and reforestation project in
western Tanzania. Activities focus on
community-based land-use planning,
sustainable agriculture, health promotion,
income generation, and environmental
conservation. SEE “TACARE” FACT
SHEET.
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Primatology Research. It was at what is
now Gombe National park in Tanzania
that in 1960 Dr. Goodall made the
observations that completely
revolutionised primatology. Today, 46
years later, the Gombe Stream Research
Centre hosts a new generation of talented
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scientists and field researchers, who
continue to enrich the field of primatology
especially significant findings on
chimpanzee behaviour and social
relations. SEE “Gombe Stream
Research Center” FACT SHEET.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
Mailing address:
PO Box 309, Station P
Toronto ON M5S 2S8
Courier address:
170 St. George Street, Suite 711
Toronto ON M5R 2M8
Phone numbers:
Phone: (416) 978-3711
Toll-free 1-888-88-CHIMP (24467)
Fax: (416) 978-3713
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE WORLDWIDE OFFICES:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
China – Beijing
China – Hong
Kong
China – Shanghai
Congo
Costa Rica
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Hungary
Italy
Japan
South Africa
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Uganda
United Kingdom
United States
Fact Sheet
Roots & Shoots
Global environmental and humanitarian education program
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Learn, Care, Act, Connect!
mosquitoes. In Shanghai, the Changzheng
Middle School group educated the public
about recycling by organizing a phonebook
recycling project.
Every day, we are bombarded with
information. We hear so much about
problems affecting human beings, animals,
and the environment that we are at risk of
tuning out. Many of us want to make a
difference, but beyond donating money, we
don’t know where or how to help. Youth of
all ages are especially concerned and willing to
rise to the challenge. The Jane Goodall
Institute’s Roots & Shoots program provides
them with the training and tools to take action
and see results.
“…Connect!” Youth want to make a
difference by themselves, without depending
on others. We agree. Roots & Shoots
connects youth in a global network where
they can share ideas, experiences and teach
one another to be leaders for positive change.
Being part of a network spanning 96 countries
inspires and motivates them. With more than
8000 groups having registered around the
world since the program’s beginning, we
know we are making a difference.
“Learn, Care, Act...” Roots & Shoots
members learn to identify and research issues
and problems in their own communities.
Simultaneously, they develop project and
leadership skills so that they can choose, plan
and carry out community action projects.
There are currently more than 100 groups in
Canada. Since the Roots & Shoots program
launched in Canada in 1997, more than 9500
youth have completed 2000 projects for
humans, animals and the environment in their
communities.
Every Roots & Shoots group, whether
composed of rural Canadian elementary
students or university students in Shanghai,
undertakes local, hands-on projects that
benefit the human, animal, and ecological
communities that we all share. The projects
have immediate local impacts but also, taken
together, help make the world a better place.
Roots & Shoots group projects are as varied
as their participants’ imaginations: a group in
Guelph, ON, created a courtyard habitat—
including a pond—for duck families they
noticed over-wintering at their school; a group
in Lagos, Nigeria, cleared rubble washed onto
a road by yearly floods and eliminated pools
of water that bred malaria-bearing
PROGRAM MISSION:
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Foster respect and compassion for all
living things.
Promote understanding of all cultures and
beliefs.
Inspire each individual to take action and
make the world a better place for the
human, animal, and ecological
community.
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ROOTS & SHOOTS’ BEGINNINGS:
In February of 1991, a small group of
Tanzanian students gathered with Dr. Jane
Goodall on the porch of her home in Dar es
Salaam. The students shared Dr. Goodall’s
fascination for animals and concern for the
environment and wanted to know what they
could do to make the world a better place.
The students decided to form clubs in each of
their schools. So began the Jane Goodall
Institute’s Roots & Shoots global
environmental and humanitarian education
program. Today Roots & Shoots has
registered more than 8000 groups in 96
countries.
THE NAME ROOTS & SHOOTS:
“Roots creep underground
everywhere and make a firm
foundation.
Shoots seem very weak, but to reach
the light they can break open brick
walls.
Imagine that the brick walls are all
the problems we have inflicted on
our planet.
Hundreds and thousands of roots
and shoots, hundreds and thousands
of young people around the world,
can break through these walls.
You can change the world.”
- Dr. Jane Goodall
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Monica Guzkowska
National Coordinator, Roots & Shoots
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
Dr. Jane Goodall DBE Biography
United Nations’ “Messenger of Peace”
In the summer of 1960, a young
Englishwoman arrived on the shores of Lake
Tanganyika in Tanzania, East Africa.
Although it was unheard of for a woman to
venture into the wilds of the African forest,
going to Africa represented the fulfilment of
Jane Goodall’s childhood dream. As Dr.
Goodall first surveyed the mountains and
valley forests of the Gombe Stream
Chimpanzee Reserve, she had no idea her
coming efforts would redefine the relationship
between humans and animals or that the
project would continue into the 21st century.
Encouraged by her mother, Vanne, Goodall
began what would become a lifelong
fascination with animals at an early age.
Throughout her childhood she read avidly
about wild animals, dreaming about living like
Tarzan and Dr. Doolittle and writing about
the animals with which she lived.
As a young lady, her passion grew stronger,
and when a close friend invited her to Kenya
in 1957, Jane readily accepted. Within a few
months of her arrival she met with famed
anthropologist and paleontologist, Dr. Louis
Leakey. Leaky had been in the process of
searching for someone to spearhead a study
on the behaviourist tendencies of wild
chimpanzees. Goodall’s patience and
persistent desire to understand animals made
her an ideal candidate for the groundbreaking
study. Dr. Leaky believed that a mind
uncluttered by academia would yield a fresh
perspective. Critics were extremely sceptical
and contended that Goodall’s research,
although intended to be long-term, would last
no longer than a few short weeks…today,
over four decades later, Dr. Goodall’s
research continues.
In 1965, Goodall earned her PhD in Ethology
from Cambridge University. Soon thereafter,
she returned to Tanzania to continue research
and to establish the Gombe Stream Research
Center. Her profound scientific discoveries
laid the foundation for all future primate
studies. Jane was the first to observe chimps
David Greybeard and Goliath strip leaves off
twigs to fashion tools for fishing termites
from a nest. Scientists originally thought
humans were the only species to make tools,
but Dr. Goodall’s discovery was evidence to
the contrary. On hearing of Jane’s
observation, Leakey said: “Now we must
redefine tool, redefine man, or accept
chimpanzees as humans.” This would be one
of Jane Goodall’s most important and
significant discoveries.
In 1977, Goodall founded the Jane Goodall
Institute (the Jane Goodall Institute of
Canada was established in 1994). The Institute
supports the continuing research at Gombe
and works to protect chimpanzees and other
animals in their African habitats. In addition
to the Gombe Stream Research Centre the
Institute strives in its efforts to promote
reforestation initiatives as well as an end to
the illegal commercial bushmeat trade.
Today, Dr. Goodall spends more than 300
days per year lecturing, sharing her message of
hope for the future and encouraging young
people to make a difference in their world.
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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
As the recipient of numerous awards, Goodall
is world-renowned and highly respected in
both the scientific and lay communities. In
1995, Goodall received the National
Geographic Society’s prestigious Hubbard
Medal “for her extraordinary study of wild
chimpanzees and for tirelessly defending the
natural world we share.” Goodall was the
international recipient of the 1996 Caring
Award and Sigma Xi’s 1996 William Proctor
Prize for Scientific Achievement. In 2002,
U.N. secretary of General Kofi Annan
appointed her a “Messenger of Peace”, and in
2003, H.M. Queen Elizabeth II awarded her
the highest honour, the Dame of the British
Empire (DBE). The United Nations
appointed Dr. Goodall as the third recipient
of the Ghandi-King Award for Non-Violence,
and she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Life Science. In 2006, Dr. Goodall received
the French Legion of Honor, in recognition
of her exceptional work with primates, the
many programs of the Jane Goodall Institute
and her continuing endeavours to encourage
people around the world to help our planet
and its inhabitants. Additional honours
include: the Kyoto Prize, The Ark Trust
Lifetime Achievement Award, the
Encyclopedia Britannica Award and the
Animal Welfare Institute’s Albert Schweitzer
Award. She remains the only non-Tanzanian
to have received the Medal of Tanzania.
She has received honorary doctorates from
University of Guelph and Toronto’s Ryerson
University, as well as from Salisbury State
University, Western Connecticut State
University, University of North Carolina,
Tufts University, University of Philadelphia,
La Salle College, University of Southern
California, University of Utrecht, Munich
University, Edinburgh University, and
University of Dar Es Salaam. Most recently,
Cornell University appointed Goodall as a
distinguished Andrew D. White Professor-atLarge.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
Chimpanzee Fact Sheet
BACKGROUND:
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is human's
closest living relative and one is of the most
recognizable of the great apes. The genetic
differentiation between humans and
chimpanzees is, remarkably, just over one
percent. It is because of striking physiological
similarities between chimpanzees and humans
- in blood chemistry and immunology - that
medical scientists use these apes as human
substitutes in researching human diseases
such as hepatitis and AIDS.
Chimpanzees are commonly recognized by
their thick black hair and flat faces.
Chimpanzees’ arms are longer than their legs
and they uniquely possess opposable thumbs
on their hands and big toes on their feet.
Chimpanzees usually walk on the soles of
their feet and on the knuckles of their hands,
but they can also walk on two legs if needed.
The average adult male stands 4 feet high and
weighs approximately 130 pounds while the
female is smaller at only 3 feet tall and 90-100
pounds. At birth, the average chimpanzee
weighs 2-4 pounds. The average life span for a
chimpanzee ranges between 40 to 50 years.
Wild chimpanzees are critically endangered.
At the turn of the century, two million
chimpanzees lived in the forests of 25 African
nations. Today, only 4 nations have significant
chimpanzee populations. The latest great ape
census indicates that there are no more than
110,000 free-range chimpanzees remaining.
Bushmeat, deforestation, and the evergrowing needs of the human population have
all contributed to the chimpanzee crisis.
Without intervention, man’s closest relative
could become extinct within 15 years.
HABITAT:
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are found in
various regions of Africa including:
Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda and
Congo-Kinshasa. Although they typically live
in the tropical rainforest, their habitat
varies considerably. Chimpanzees most often
live in primary, uncut forest but are also
found in secondary re-growth forests, open
woodlands, bamboo forests, swamp forests
and even open savannah. Despite this
adaptability, intruding commercial logging and
oil operations have been found harmful to
chimpanzee populations. SEE “Bushmeat
Crisis” FACT SHEET for more on habitat
degradation.
BEHAVIOUR:
The structure of the chimpanzee brain is
startlingly similar to that of the human. Many
aspects of their behaviour and social relations,
emotional expressions, needs, and intellectual
abilities are similar to those depicted in
humans. Mental traits once regarded as unique
to humans have been convincingly
demonstrated in chimpanzees: reasoned
thought, abstraction, generalization, symbolic
representation, and concept of self. Various
forms of non-verbal communications have
also been documented. Many of their
emotions, such as joy, sadness, fear, and
despair are similar to the emotions of the
human species. There are particularly close
parallels between the chimpanzee infant and
the human child: Both have an insatiable
appetite for play, both are extremely curious
by nature, both learn through observation and
imitation, both need constant reassurance and
attention, and finally, both need affectionate
physical contact for healthy development.
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Chimpanzees become sexually mature
between the ages of ten and thirteen. Females
usually reproduce every five years, but a
mother is unlikely to raise more than three
offspring to full maturity during her lifetime
due to the high rate of infant mortality. The
gestation period is approximately eight
months. Babies are weaned at five years, but
often remain in the company of their mothers
throughout their lifetime. Chimpanzees have
been known to adopt younger siblings
if/when the mother dies.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION:
Chimpanzees are highly social beings who live
in a fission fusion social structure much like
that of humans. Hierarchies are reinforced
through communication using facial
expressions, posture, touching, grooming, and
sound. Chimpanzees produce more than
thirty different calls, which can be heard up to
two miles away. Communities can range in
size from 20 to 100. Members may switch
parties but there is evidence of close,
supportive, affectionate bonds that develop
between family members and other
individuals within a community, which can
persist throughout the course of a lifetime.
FOOD:
Chimpanzees are mainly vegetarians. The
chimpanzee diet mainly comprises fruit,
leaves, seeds, and flowers however they will
also eat ants, honey, eggs and caterpillars.
Occasionally chimps have been known to
hunt, kill, and eat the meat of small bush pigs,
monkeys and antelope.
TOOL MAKERS:
One of Dr Goodall’s most important
discoveries was that chimpanzees make and
use tools, an activity long thought to be
exclusively human. They use tools for
problem solving, and the tools are adapted to
their geographic area and customs. For
example, they use sticks and blades of grass to
"fish" for driver ants or termites. They also
make sponges from leaves by chewing them
and dipping the chewed leaf into puddles of
water for drinking. Sticks or rocks are used to
smash fruits or shells too hard to bite open.
Tools are not only used for feeding: Adult
males elaborate charging displays by hurling
sticks, branches or rocks in order to
intimidate others.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
Orphan Chimpanzee Sanctuaries
Providing safe havens for orphan chimpanzees in Africa
BACKGROUND:
UGANDA:
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
currently contributes in the support of two
African sanctuaries and assumes responsibility
for 161 orphan chimpanzees. The Jane
Goodall Institute of Canada contributes to
sanctuary funding through corporate and
foundation support as well as by way of
private fiscal commitments (Chimp Guardian
program, private donations, membership).
Located on a 97-acre island in Lake Victoria,
the Ngamba Island sanctuary was established
in 1998 after the Jane Goodall InstituteUganda formed the Chimpanzee Sanctuary
and Wildlife Trust (CSWT). Ngamba was
originally designed to have a carrying capacity
of 30 chimpanzees, but today it houses 42.
The chimps venture off into the rainforest
each day, where they climb trees, eat fresh
fruit, build day nests, and even “fish” for ants
and other insects. In the evenings, they may
return to the safety of the night enclosures
where they are provided with provisional
food, or they can choose to remain in the
forest. The Ngamba Island chimpanzee
sanctuary is open to tourists and supports a
wide-range of community development and
education-based initiatives.
The yearly cost of feeding and caring for a
chimpanzee is:
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$3,425 for an adult
$4,110 for a juvenile (3 to 5 years of age)
$6,850 for an infant.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
CONGO:
Located near Pointe Noire in CongoBrazzaville, Tchimpounga sanctuary was built
in 1992 by the Conoco (now ConocoPhillips)
oil company. With 119 orphans,
Tchimpounga is the largest chimpanzee
sanctuary in Africa. The sanctuary is
surrounded by 18,000 acres of thick rainforest
and savannah, which the Jane Goodall
Institute is developing for the government as
a wildlife refuge. School children from Pointe
Noire visit the sanctuary on a regular basis.
New orphans continue to arrive at a feverish
pace; subsequently, there is an urgent need for
additional infant dormitories as well as an
expansion of the enclosed forest areas to
provide additional space for the older
chimpanzees.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
Gombe Stream Research Center
Continuing Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking research on wild chimpanzees
Dr. Goodall first arrived at the Gombe
Stream Reserve in July 1960. She had been
chosen by the paleontologist and
anthropologist Louis Leakey to study the
behaviour of the local chimpanzees living in
the area. Goodall’s observations at Gombe
would completely revolutionize scientific
research.
Her first extraordinary observation came just
a few months after her arrival at Gombe when
she saw a chimpanzee making and using a
simple tool. Dr. Goodall describes it this way:
“I can never forget that day. Peering through
some vegetation, I saw a dark shape hunched
over a termite mound. I realized it was the
male whom I had named David Greybeard. I
watched as he picked a piece of grass and
pushed it carefully into a tunnel in the mound.
He withdrew it covered with termites clinging
on with their mandibles, and he picked them
off. Crunch, crunch. Delicious! It was even more
thrilling to watch him as he broke off a leafy
twig and stripped it of leaves to use it for
fishing out termites.”
Over 40 years later, Dr. Goodall and her
fellow researchers have amassed an extensive
collection of chimpanzee-related behavioural
and demographic data.
Today Gombe hosts a new generation of
talented scientists and field researchers,
making it one of the most significant
continuous studies of a wild primate
population. The Gombe field staff continues
the long-term study of individuals in the
Kasekela community and also monitors two
smaller chimpanzee communities to the north
and south. It is hoped that recent studies of
disease transmission using Gombe
chimpanzee faecal material will lead to a
better understanding of the transmission of
the human HIV virus. A full-time
videographer at Gombe provides a dynamic
visual accompaniment to the research data—
hundreds of hours of footage capturing the
day-to-day drama of chimpanzee life at the
reserve.
CENTER FOR PRIMATE STUDIES:
Based in the University of Minnesota, the Jane
Goodall Institute’s Center for Primate Studies
houses an extensive collection of various field
notes, maps, audiotapes, film, video, and
other artefacts representing more than 40
years of scientific information from the
Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania.
The centre is also home to more than 320,000
pages of paper data and an image bank of
more than 8,000 slides and negatives, as well
as hundreds of hours of video footage.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
Bushmeat Crisis
BACKGROUND:
In Africa, the term “forest” is often referred
to as the bush. Wildlife and meat derived from
the forest is therefore commonly referred to
as bushmeat. Commercial hunting has become
the most immediate threat to the future
survival of wildlife in the Congo Basin.
Human activity has altered nearly 1/3 of the
earth's surface and threatens the existence of
countless plant and animal species worldwide.
Over the past half-century, the population
numbers of our four closest relatives bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutan
- have declined by more than 80%. Recent
figures indicate that no more than 110,000
wild chimpanzees remain in Africa, where
approximately two million once lived at the
turn of the twentieth century.
CAUSE:
Bushmeat has long been considered as a
popular dish for local people indigenous to
the tropical rainforest belt, and until recently,
the hunting of wild animals for food was a
sustainable practice. The commercial
bushmeat trade is an extremely profitable
business for middle men and not the forest
dwellers (who often lack alternative options
for income generation). A hunter can earn an
annual salary of approximately $300-1000,
significantly more than the average annual
household income in the region and equal to
the salaries of those individuals responsible
for controlling the illegal trade. The meat is
distributed in rural and urban markets and
among logging company employees.
Bushmeat is the preferred and most readily
available source of protein in the rainforest.
Animal husbandry is not customary in Central
Africa, and although wealthy people will
sometimes pay high prices for gorilla, snake,
and porcupine, low-income families who
cannot afford chicken or pork are generally
the one’s who support the bushmeat industry.
The rapidly growing timber industry has been
a major factor in fuelling and facilitating the
bushmeat trade. Logging companies cut roads
into previously inaccessible forests. Even
when prohibited by company policy, logging
truck drivers are routinely bribed into carrying
loads of up to 200 kilograms of bushmeat,
including gorillas and chimpanzees.
Regulated hunting exists but requires a permit
granted by the local wildlife administration
department. While they may be protected
under government law, chimpanzees and
other great apes often fall victim to hunting
externalities (such as snares intended to
capture other animals). Unfortunately, local
authorities often lack the required capabilities
necessary to effectively monitor and enforce
government regulations in the region.
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BUSHMEAT FACTS1:
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More than one million tons of Bushmeat
are taken from the Congo Basin forests
each year.
In 2003, approximately 295 chimpanzees
were slaughtered for Bushmeat in
Brazzaville.
The total value of the Bushmeat trade is
estimated to be worth $68 million CDN
annually.
Chimpanzee meat retails between $27-32
CDN per piece (prices vary regionally) in
Southwest Cameroon, where hunting is
estimated to contribute to 1/3 of all
household income.
It has been estimated that 1,200 logging
company employees consumed up to 80
tons of Bushmeat in one year in a camp
near the Lope reserve in Central Gabon.
Bushmeat trade could eliminate all viable
populations of African apes within the
next 5-15 years.
More humans are born each day (350,000)
than the total number of great apes alive
on the planet.
BUSHMEAT CRISIS TASK FORCE:
The Bushmeat Crisis Task Force (BCTF) is a
consortium of conservation organizations and scientists
dedicated to the conservation of wildlife populations
threatened by commercial hunting for sale as meat.
The BCTF works to increase awareness both
in the public and private sectors, aimed at
identifying and supporting solutions that
effectively respond to the bushmeat crisis in
Africa. According to Dr. Goodall “The
bushmeat crisis is the most significant and
immediate threat to wildlife populations in
Africa today.” The Bushmeat Crisis Task
Force is an integrative network of ecologists,
wildlife biologists, economists, food security
specialists, anthropologists, and
AIDS/emerging disease researchers. Working
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in partnership with professionals and
organizations, natural history museums,
zoological parks, animal protection advocates,
and human health specialists, the BCTF
fosters information sharing and
interdependence to develop feasible solutions
to bring to an end the illegal bushmeat trade.
For more information specifically related to
the BCTF, visit www.bushmeat.org.
The Bushmeat Crisis Task Force consists of
the following supporting members: African
Wildlife Foundation, American Society of
Primatologists, American Zoo and Aquarium
Association, Center for Applied Biodiversity
Science, Center for Conservation and
Behaviour, Chicago Zoological Society,
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden,
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Columbus Zoo
and Aquarium, Dallas Zoo, Detroit
Zoological Park, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
International, Disney Wildlife Conservation
Fund, The Fund for Animals, Happy Hallow
Corporation, Houston Zoo, Humane Society
of the United States, International Fund for
Animal Welfare, The Jane Goodall
Institute, Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens,
Louisville Zoological Garden, Oakland Zoo,
Oklahoma City Zoo, Sedgwick County Zoo,
Toronto Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society,
World Wildlife Fund, World Resources
Institute, Zoo New England, Zoological
Society of Philadelphia, Zoological Society of
San Diego.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
ChimpanZoo
Enhancing the lives of chimpanzees through research, education and enrichment
BACKGROUND:
Founded in 1984, ChimpanZoo is the Jane
Goodall Institute’s international research
program dedicated to the study of captive
chimpanzees and to the improvement of their
lives through research, education and
enrichment. Twenty zoos and sanctuaries
currently participate in the program. The zoos
contribute regular reports to the world’s
largest database on captive chimpanzee
behaviour, health, and demographics. The
data is used for comparative studies and for
enrichment purposes.
PROGRAM:
ChimpanZoo was established as a collective
effort between the Jane Goodall Institute,
zoological facilities and universities. Our
mission is to apply uniform research methods
to learn more about chimpanzees and their
psychological and behavioral responses to a
captive environment. Approximately 130
chimpanzees are involved ChimpanZoo,
making it the largest ape research program
ever undertaken. Students, care-takers and
volunteers record behavioral observations.
The results of the studies are presented at an
annual, week-long ChimpanZoo conference.
It serves as a forum for discussing and
exchanging new information and ideas. The
lecture series attracts the academic and their
latest research, and findings are published in
journals. The database is also accessible to
zoos, students and instructors.
zoological communities, as well as the public.
Guest lecturers are also invited to speak about
GOALS:
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To increase public awareness about the
plight of chimpanzees and to increase
understanding of chimpanzee behavior.
To assist zoos in their efforts to improve
the habitats and conditions for captive
chimpanzees.
To facilitate the exchange of information
on ways to enrich the lives of captive
chimpanzees.
To compile behavioral data for an
international database.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Dr. Virginia Landau
Director of ChimpanZoo
Babcock Bldg. #3106
1717 E. Speedway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: 520-621-4785
Fax: 520-621-2230
E-mail: info@chimpanzoo.org
Website: www.chimpanzoo.org
Fact Sheet
TACARE “Take Care” Programs
Community-centered programs enriching the lives of African villagers
BACKGROUND:
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
The Lake Tanganyika Catchment
Reforestation and Education Project
(TACARE) was launched in October, 1994 in
the rural Kigoma region of western Tanzania.
The underlying rationale of the program is to
conserve chimpanzee habitat by addressing
the economic and social problems faced by
human populations living on the habitat
borders. TACARE addresses poverty and
supports sustainable livelihoods in villages
around Lake Tanganyika while arresting the
rapid degradation of natural resources
(especially the remaining indigenous forest).
The project has since expanded to introduce
primary health care and to offer family
planning, education, and micro-enterprise
opportunities geared towards the women in
the Kigoma district.
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PROGRAM:
The TACARE project works in collaboration
with 33 villages situated within the Lake
Tanganyika catchment, between Mahale and
Gombe National Parks. Activities focus on
community-based land use planning,
sustainable agriculture, health promotion,
income generation, environmental
conservation, and environmental. The project
offers seminars in agro-forestry, tree-nursery
maintenance, contour farming, and
environmental conservation.
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To arrest the rapid degradation and
erosion of land in the Kigoma region
To improve the overall standard of living
for local residents
To encourage a sustainable management
of natural resources
To create environmental protection
awareness
To provide models for sustainable socioeconomic development
To strengthen the local institutional
capacity for sustainable development
To introduce adapted farming and agroforestry systems
To establish sustainable tree nursery
services in the project area
ACTIVITIES:
1. Community Development – community
development activities include: credit
programs that encourage local groups to
combine savings in revolving loan funds.
Loans help individuals start or expand small
businesses. Furthermore, the Jane Goodall
Institute sponsorship program has supported
more than 112 girls through post-secondary
education.
2. Forestry – our forestry initiative has
created more than 100 tree nurseries that
distribute seedlings to further reforestation
efforts. To date, over 14,000 seedlings have
been raised and distributed. With TACARE’s
help, villagers have planted more than 1
million trees in 32 local villages.
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3. Agriculture – our agricultural activities
include: oil palm seedling development and
distribution, crop promotion, and training in
agro-forestry
4. Health – The Jane Goodall Institute health
initiatives focus on family planning, water and
environmental sanitation, and reproductive
health education (HIV/AIDS and STDs).
5. Roots & Shoots – The lake Tanganyika
Roots & Shoots program involves 45 primary
schools and children’s centers in 20 local
villages. The groups undertake various
environmental projects and make educational
excursions to the nearby Gombe National
Park.
THE FUTURE:
The Jane Goodall Institute is replicating the
Tanzanian program in other parts of Africa
where population pressures push up against
the boundaries of wilderness areas. Programs
have started in the villages bordering the
Mengame wildlife reserve in Cameroon as
well as in villages around our Jane Goodall
Institute Tchimpounga orphan chimpanzee
sanctuary and reserve in Congo Brazzaville.
The Jane Goodall Institute hopes to initiate
TACARE programs in Nigeria, Kenya, and
Uganda.
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca
Fact Sheet
Community-Centered Conservation
Initiatives
The Jane Goodall Institute’s newest projects
in Africa are linked not only geographically
through the Congo Basin watershed, but also
thematically by addressing the root social and
economic factors that frame human
relationships with the environment. Coupling
this focus with direct involvement with
governments, industry and local capacity, our
holistic approach creates the opportunity to
establish long-term field conservation and
natural development programs.
control over access to natural resources and
are therefore unable to prevent “outsiders”
from exploiting the local resource base. By
placing the responsibility of natural resource
management into the hands of the local
community and by increasing community
participation at all levels of our projects, the
Institute has been successful in improving
livelihoods while concurrently promoting
conservation and the need to preserve
biodiversity for the benefit of all.
The management of natural resources is often
viewed by local communities as a means to
implement authoritarian policies that go
against traditional rights. As local populations
are the immediate custodians of natural
resources, there is little prospect of improved
natural resource management (NRM) if the
major users are excluded from participating in
solutions for local resource protection.
Through the Institute’s Community-Centered
Conservation (CCC) approach to natural
resource management, local communities
ultimately become the advocates and
caretakers of their natural environment.
The Institute’s holistic program structure –
public/private partnerships in support of
locally managed education, socio-economic
development and sustainable natural resource
management initiatives – is a model for
success based on our Lake Tanganyika
Catchment Reforestation and Education
program (TACARE) in Western Tanzania. At
all stages of CCC project planning, the
Institute includes the local authorities and
other stakeholders within the area. The
TACARE approach offers a wide range of
potential interventions which are based on
local issues and needs that are mutually
selected by Institute project personnel and
community members. This approach ensures
the long-term effectiveness and sustainability
of our initiatives as the local people take
“ownership” of the programs in their villages.
By engaging communities to participate in the
conservation process, the Institute has been
highly successful in creating local
understanding of the issues while addressing
both the social and economic influences that
affect the local people through sustainable
development activities.
The Institute’s CCC approach empowers local
communities with the tools needed to manage
their natural resources for long-term
economic gain and environmental prosperity.
By increasing local capacity, responsibility,
and participation in the sustainable
management of natural resources,
communities take pride in the preservation of
the natural environment and wildlife of their
area. Incentives at the local level to conserve
natural resources are necessary if a project is
to succeed. Local peoples frequently have no
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact:
Jane Lawton
Executive Director
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 309, Station P
Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
Tel: 1-888-88-CHIMP
E-mail: info@janegoodall.ca
www.janegoodall.ca