Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Congo: Meet a Jane Goodall Institute Ranger

Tchimpounga Rangers look at map
“IT IS THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE IN CONSERVATION, PROTECTING ENDANGERED SPECIES AND NATURE ITSELF. WE MUST ALL COME TOGETHER TO ENSURE WE PROTECT THE RANGERS THEMSELVES ON THE FRONT LINE.” –DR. JANE GOODALL Every day, park rangers risk their lives to protect wildlife and wild places from poaching and other threats. Sadly, it’s
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Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Congo:
Meet a Jane Goodall Institute Ranger

“It is the missing piece of the puzzle in conservation, protecting endangered species and nature itself. We must all come together to ensure we protect the rangers themselves on the front line.” –Dr. Jane Goodall Every day, park rangers risk their lives to protect wildlife and wild places from poaching and other threats. Sadly, it’s
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Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Congo:
Meet a Jane Goodall Institute care giver

Care Givers are vital in the fight to end poaching and protect endangered chimpanzees. Tchimpounga only exists thanks to their patience, kindness and love. Meet Antonette a very special team member who’s healed hundreds of chimps. Rescued chimps are stolen from their mothers by poachers, often witness terrible violence and are forced to live in
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Celebrate International Women’s Day: Meet Zara Bending

This week we’re celebrating just a few of the thousands of incredible woman who make up the Jane Goodall Institute Australia (JGIA) family – and beyond! After yesterday’s starter with Roots & Shoots Tasmania Coordinator, Vineeta, today we introduce you to policy powerhouse Zara Bending. Fighter for wildlife, award-winning lecturer, passionate animal activist, prolific published
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Celebrate International Women’s Day: Meet Vineeta Gupta

Our famous founder is one of many bold, brilliant, game-changing women at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). From the youngest Roots & Shoots members to our global CEO, we are very lucky to have countless curious, compassionate female leaders among us. All courageously committed to creating hope in their communities for the future of our
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Jane’s World Wildlife Day message: “We are part of and depend on the natural world”

“We must face the shocking fact that we’re living through the sixth great extinction in the history of life on planet Earth. “Fortunately we’re beginning to tackle the problems that we’ve created. We’re beginning to use our extraordinary intellect to put things right. People are waking up and realising that if we don’t take action
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Wildlife Crime: Malawi joins Angola, Costa Rica and Gabon in calling for a new agreement

By Zara Bending, Board Director, JGIA​​​​​​ The President of the Republic of Malawi, H. E. Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has issued a statement joining Angola, Costa Rica and Gabon in calling for an additional Protocol under the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) on preventing and combating illicit wildlife trafficking: “Malawi is determined to sustain its global reputation as
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Jane Goodall Institute Australia asks Scott Morrison: Stop wildlife trafficking

A global problem demands a global response: 24 chapters of the Jane Goodall Institute are uniting to end wildlife trafficking – by Jane Goodall Institute Australia (JGIA) Board Director, Zara Bending As part of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)’s global ForeverWild campaign, chapters around the world are writing to their Heads of State and other
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Statement: Tragic Sacrifice of 6 Rangers Killed in the Congo’s Virunga National Park

The Jane Goodall Institute Australia (JGIA) expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of six rangers killed (and the seventh injured) while on patrol in Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of Congo) on the morning of Sunday 10 January 2021. The second attack in less than a year, 17 rangers were also
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Jane Goodall Podcast: Hopecast Episode 1 – You Are Reason For Hope!

Hope is a word that often gets used in important speeches, in critical moments, in Star Wars films, and in our darkest hours – but what is hope? There are many explanations for the word, including from the late Old English hopa ‘confidence in the future,’ or from c. 1200 as ‘expectation of something desired;’
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