Jane Goodall

Browse > Home / Animal Life- animal protection , Article-byline , BREAKING NEWS , India , Irak , World News / Chimps To Become Extinct In the Wild Within Ten Years July 27, 2009 By Andrea Frascione, staff writer The Jane Goodall Institute Puts Up for Adoption Chimps Orphaned by Poachers JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ( RPRN ) 7/27/2009 - The Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden is a sanctuary for rescued wild and abused captive chimps in South Africa. Continuing the mission Dr. Goodall began in 1977, this twenty-five hundred acre habitat ensures the survival of those who have escaped poachers, and the well being ... Read Full Story

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Chimpanzees, long under threat from humans encroaching on their habitat, are now facing another risk caused by that same member of the Great Ape family: the global economic crisis, says primatologist Jane Goodall. Funding to the Jane Goodall Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims to conserve primate habitats and increase awareness of animal welfare activities, has declined by about 10 percent since the financial crisis hit. "Money that came in last year was less than we had expected," Goodall told Reuters in Singapore while visiting for events related to World Environment Day. "The private donors and some of the foundations ... Read Full Story

China's thirst for natural resources including wood and minerals is leading to massive deforestation in Africa and the destruction of crucial wildlife habitat, world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has said. The British scientist who revolutionized research with her studies of chimpanzees beginning in 1960 warned that Beijing is pressing governments in central Africa's Congo basin to sign over forest concessions in return for infrastructure and healthcare aid. She said the process is helping decimate some of the largest populations of wild chimpanzees and gorillas in the world. "These areas containing unlogged forests are very desirable to, particularly today, China, with China's desperate effort for economic ... Read Full Story

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar e-mailed all headquarters folks last week to invite them to hear Goodall talk about her new book Read Full Story

Natalie Portman has been hailed for her philanthropy at the Venice Film Festival in Italy - she’s been presented with the Movie for Humanity Award.The Star Wars beauty, who is at the event to promote her directorial debut Eve, became the first recipient of the Kineo Italian Movie Awards accolade on Sunday (31Aug08).In recognition of the 27-year-old’s charity work, she also received a $50,000 cheque, which Portman donated to the Tacare Girl’s Scholarship Programme of the Jane Goodall Institute, a non-profit organisation involved in education and wildlife research in Tanzania.Accepting the award, she said: “The Jane Goodall foundation does incredible work in Tanzania, an ... Read Full Story