Jane Goodall Institute

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The Jane Goodall Institute was established in 1977 by Goodall herself, and its mission statement was “To advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things.” The Institute supported Gombe research and had efforts to protect the chimpanzees and their habitat. To date, the Jane Goodall Institute has nineteen offices worldwide, including one in Singapore.roots and shootsRetrieved from http://www.janegoodall.org.sg/Jane_Goodall/_Roots_and_Shoots.html

In 1991, Goodall established the youth program of the Institute, and named it Roots & Shoots. According to Goodall, the youth program was named as such because “Roots make a firm foundation; shoots seem small, but to reach to the light they can break apart brick walls . . . hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots – young people like you – around the globe can break through and make the world a better place for all living things.”

The Institute also opened the Centre for Primate Studies, which was originally in the University of Minnesota, but moved to Duke University in 2011. The Centre was opened to store and organize all the handwritten data and research that had accumulated over the years of Goodall living with the primates. Currently, all the information has been digitalized.