Jane Goodall Institute

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The founder Jane Goodall in October 2010

The Jane Goodall Institute is an international animal and environmental protection organization founded in 1977 by the English primatologist Jane Goodall and Genevieve di San Faustino (1919-2011). The institute has set itself the task of improving the treatment and understanding of primates through public education and legal representation, protecting their habitats in cooperation with local communities, and recruiting and training young people for these tasks.

There are offices in Southampton in Great Britain, in Italy, where the institute was founded in 1998 by Daniela De Donno , who has worked with Goodall since 1991, in Australia as well as in Hong Kong (2002) and Shanghai (volunteer organization founded in 1999), while the research center is located in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania . With the recognition as a non-governmental organization by the Shanghai municipal government, the facility became the first and only foreign environmental protection organization in China.

There is also a close partnership with the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury in northern Connecticut .

In the Congo , the institute has been running the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center since 1999 , which has 26 hectares of land and next to which the Democratic Republic of the Congo established a protected area of ​​72.84 km² in March 1999. It is used to accommodate orphaned chimpanzees.

The Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School is a school for grades 6 through 8 in Salem , Oregon , with a focus on environmental protection.

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  1. ↑ Jane Goodall Institute UK .
  2. ↑ Istituto Jane Goodall Italia ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.janegoodall-italia.org
  3. ^ The Jane Goodall Institute of Australia .
  4. ↑ Jane Goodall Institute Hong Kong .
  5. ↑ Jane Goodall Institute Shanghai .