Commitment 2014 Annual Report
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THE POWER OF COMMITMENT 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 1 2014 HIGHLIGHTS BY-THE-NUMBERS Protecting Great Apes Sustainable Livelihoods Continued ongoing care for 154 chimpanzees at the Produced and distributed more than 365,000 different Tchimpounga sanctuary. kinds of trees and plants that either provide food, building materials or income for communities and reduce Released an additional seven chimpanzees on to demand for cutting down forests that would otherwise be safe, natural, expanded sanctuary sites on Tchibebe and chimpanzee habitat. Tchindzoulou islands, bringing the total to 35 now living on the islands. Provided training to 331 farmers in agroforestry and/ or animal husbandry and provided them with either tree Released seven mandrills back into Conkouati-Douli seedlings or livestock to grow and sell. In addition, JGI National Park, and started the first phase of release with distributed 100 beehives to help families produce honey five more mandrills. as a source of income. Supported 11 studies by research partners at Gombe Built nearly 700 fuel efficient stoves to help decrease Stream Research Center, which resulted in 31 scientific household costs and demand for cutting forests for papers, theses and presentations. firewood. Erected an additional ten public awareness billboards in Republic of Congo bringing the total over the halfway point to our goal of 70 total billboards in the country. Healthy Habitats Science & Technology Increased protection of 512,000 hectares (1.3 million Used crowd-sourced forest monitoring beginning in acres) of forest in the Masito-Ugalla ecosystem of Tanzania 2012 through 2014 to generate 34,347 observations through newly established reserves previously considered from Tanzania and 15,006 observations from Uganda “general land.” of chimpanzee and other wildlife presence and illegal human activities. Increased forest patrols resulted in the arrests of 115 people participating in illegal forest activities. Helped narrow potential conservation area for chimpanzees in Eastern DRC to 66 million acres Trained more than 160 additional community leaders in of key habitat. monitoring forests using smartphones and tablets. Analyzed new data from Global Forest Watch data to calculate that the equivalent of 2,000 soccer fields worth of forests within chimpanzee range have been destroyed between 2000 and 2012. CONTENTS Gender & Health Letter from Our Founder 2 Letter from Our CEO 4 Supported the education of 45 girls, 32 of whom are enrolled in a college or university. As of 2014, 242 girls About JGI 5 have been supported through the scholarship program. FEATURES Provided training to 98 leaders who were primarily women—in community leadership, family planning and/or Tchimpounga Islands Buildout 6 mother/infant healthcare. 30,000 community members In Memoriam: Freud and Clara 8 have received education and training from these leaders on family planning and mother/infant care. Continuing Jane’s Research at Gombe’s 9 Completed construction of three new healthcare facilities that provide services to 14,500 people. Staff Spotlight: Peter Apell 11 Produced 52 radio broadcasts about family planning PROGRAM UPDATES reaching more than 70,000 listeners. PROTECTING GREAT APES 12 SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS 14 GENDER & HEALTH 16 HEALTHY HABITATS 18 Roots & Shoots CONSERVATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 20 Trained over 1,600 educators to mentor 40,000 ROOTS & SHOOTS 22 young people as they address real problems in their community for people, animals, and the environment Environmental Education/ through service campaigns. Public Awareness 26 In Uganda, 82 educators from 50 schools were trained Jane’s Global Tour 28 in environmental education and given action kits which included six planned lessons and visual aids. Donor Spotlights 31 300 students from Sokoine Primary School in Kigoma, Tanzania led a project to learn about and protect trees How You Can Help 35 and plants in their local forest reserve that offer medicinal Donor List 36 benefits to community members and chimpanzees alike. Financials 39 In DRC, 27,723 students from 95 schools participated in environmental education sessions in Walikale and Board and Staff 40 Lubutu. 1 A Letter from Our Founder Dear friends, This has been a remarkable year for the growth in Nebraska, then in April with Roots & Shoots of the Jane Goodall Institute and our positive children on my 80th birthday. Thanks to Google impact on the world. I am so grateful for all of Hangout, I was able to participate in an online your support in making the Jane Goodall Institute birthday party with the world, seeing familiar faces a world leader in the protection of chimpanzees from the early days of the program and the bright and conservation of our planet. I am also incredi- smiles of young Roots & Shoots members from bly appreciative of all who contributed to making around the world. my 80th birthday a success by celebrating in true JGI style, with new programs and initiatives to help For my birthday this year I had several wishes, humans and animals live together in harmony with and am so thankful to see them all fulfilled. First, the environment. I wanted to see us raise enough funds to ensure completion of Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Reha- I traveled nearly 300 days this year, visiting 67 bilitation Center’s new island sanctuary sites by cities in 25 countries to speak to young people, the end of 2016. Thanks to the support of donors, our supporters, members of the media, JGI staff we raised these funds in 2014 and all rehabilitated and world leaders in politics and conservation. I chimpanzees at Tchimpounga are now on their began the year in Africa, visiting JGI-Spain’s wild way to living in beautiful forests on these new, chimpanzee research center in Senegal for the protected island sites. Indeed, many chimpanzees first time. My U.S. and Canada tour after that was have already been moved to Tchibebe Island and very exciting, as I was able to promote my new are running free through the forest, sleeping under book, “Seeds of Hope,” and act as an ambassador the protective tree canopy. My other wish was for to Disneynature’s new film, Bears. I was thrilled Roots & Shoots members around the world to to take some personal time to connect with JGI supporters at the annual sandhill crane migration 2 work on a meaningful project that they dedicated As always, my energy for these long and tiring to the occasion of my 80th birthday. tours and trips come from the inspired young people I meet in my travels who are working to In my visits to Africa throughout the year, I became make the world a better place for people, animals excited by JGI’s strides in using technology in the and the environment. I myself am inspired by the field to track and monitor chimpanzees and the many Roots & Shoots projects I saw this year, and health of their habitats. I am particularly excited by by the enthusiasm of the young leaders pioneering our continued developments in using satellite imag- youth-led changes in their communities. Not only ery to track habitat and by how many community is Roots & Shoots ever growing, but so are the members we trained this year to gather data on their ranks of educators we train to lead them. local environment. I do not have enough time to tell of all the amaz- In my travels to the East, I enjoyed speaking and ing adventures I had in 2014, but in this report touring in Australia, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, you can find out more about the progress of our Hong Kong, South Korea and the new JGI office many programs around the world. Thank you for in New Zealand, our 28th office in the world! In all of the wonderful birthday wishes in 2014 and September, I attended the annual United Nation’s for continuing to support JGI—we could not keep International Day of Peace along with Roots & doing what we do without you. Shoots youth. Just after, I joined 400,000 indi- viduals in New York City for the People’s Climate Sincerely, Change March. It was invigorating to see so many passionate people come out in support of our natural world. And finally I ended the year receiv- ing Captain Planet Foundation’s Exemplar Award, Jane Goodall which was a true honor. 3 A Letter from Our CEO Dear Friends, This has been a pivotal year for the Jane Goodall Our Roots & Shoots groups are thriving, now in Institute as we began to implement our 30 year over 130 countries. We have utilized technology conservation plan to preserve 85 percent of chim- to train thousands of educators and community panzees across their entire range in Africa. We leaders through a massive open online course in hit the ground running with strategic planning to Roots & Shoots community mapping and man- achieve this goal using the best possible invest- agement strategies. The enthusiasm of these ment of your donor dollars. leaders and the young people invested in improv- ing their communities continues to invigorate and Our ongoing chimpanzee research at Gombe inspire us, and their efforts this past year impacted Stream National Park continues to teach us more hundreds of thousands of people and animals in about the lives of chimpanzees, which in turn their communities. guides our conservation efforts. Our increased training of community members in the use of This report highlights the details of the amazing cutting-edge technology expanded our ability programs that you supported in 2014. We hope to map threats to wildlife and improvements in you come away from reading these pages as chimpanzee habitat health. This data allowed us to excited as we are about our accomplishments this target key areas where we allocated our attention year. Thank you for your continued support; with- and resources to conserve the most chimpanzee out you, none of this would be possible.