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ImpacThe Jane Goodall Institute USA Annual Report 2018 t18 OUR STRATEGIC PLAN: IN PLACE, AND IN ACTION 3 CHIMPANZEE CONSERVATION: EXPANDING OUR GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS 8 ROOTS & SHOOTS: EMPOWERING TODAY’S YOUTH 18 SECURING JANE’S LEGACY 26 The Jane Goodall Institute USA Annual Report 2018 3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 3 16 Keystones play a unique and critical role in structural integrity of buildings, OBJECTIVE 1 ENSURE THE CONSERVATION OF WILD 8 bridges and doors. When they are compromised, so is the integrity and CHIMPANZEES AND THEIR HABITATS IN AFRICA stability of the whole structure. Chimpanzees are a keystone species. When their populations do well, so do thousands of other species, including OBJECTIVE 2 ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF 14 humans. The threats that put pressure on chimpanzees and their habitats 16 CHIMPANZEES IN GOMBE AND BEYOND also put pressure on the natural resources humans need. These threats continue to loom and increase every day. We know why: Competition over OBJECTIVE 3 ENSURE THE WELFARE OF CAPTIVE 16 limited natural resources, poverty and shortsighted decision-making have CHIMPANZEES, INCLUDING THOSE IN SANCTUARIES been plaguing our world for decades. Today, these issues are putting our closest living relatives in peril. OBJECTIVE 4 INSPIRE AND EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE 18 Dr. Goodall has long understood the interconnectivity of our 27 TO MAKE COMPASSIONATE AND HOLISTIC CHOICES planet and the need for sustainable decision-making to ensure Our strategy is rooted the well-being of all life on Earth. To this end, supporters, peers and partners look to the Jane Goodall Institute ( JGI) OBJECTIVE 5 APPLY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 22 in two key goals: for leadership to transform the world for the better. JGI’s work FOR BETTER DECISION-MAKING 1. Ensuring the conservation, builds on nearly 60 years of research in Gombe to improve the understanding and welfare of understanding of chimpanzees and other primates, more than chimpanzees and other great apes 9 25 years of community-centered conservation, and almost 30 OBJECTIVE 6 INFLUENCE POLICY 25 years of empowering compassionate change-makers through AND CORPORATE PRACTICES Roots & Shoots. In 2018, we launched a new strategic plan 2. Inspiring and empowering to share that considerable experience and to hold ourselves people around the globe to make OBJECTIVE 7 SECURE JANE GOODALL´S LEGACY 26 accountable to definable, scalable progress compassionate, sustainable and with two main goals across eight focused holistic choices objectives that work together to accom- OBJECTIVE 8 BUILD ON A SOLID FOUNDATION 28 plish our mission. THE THREATS TO CHIMPANZEES and our planet require OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZE Our strategic plan creates a dynamic, FINANCIAL, FUNDRAISING AND ADMINISTRATIVE adaptive and multi-dimensional frame- immediate action. OPERATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH work to shape our programs across a complicated landscape. Our goals pursue greater understanding and protection of apes and their habitats, 24 FINANCIALS 30 while increasing our capacity to grow an informed, compassionate global movement of young change-makers. With this strategy, BOARD AND GLOBAL AFFILIATES 32 we are creating a better world for people, other animals and our shared environment. THE RIGHT STRATEGY AT THE RIGHT TIME OUR DONOR FAMILY 33 The threats to chimpanzees and our planet require immediate action. We believe that our community-centered species conser- IN MEMORIAM 39 vation approach, coupled with our work empowering youth to improve their communities through compassionate and sustainable 17 decision-making, can help end those threats. This strategy is how we will ensure that the future is green and bright for all of us, before it is too late. 4 The Jane Goodall Institute USA Annual Report 2018 The Jane Goodall Institute USA Annual Report 2018 5 UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING intervention. These indicators are accessible to a variety of CONSERVATION stakeholders, increasing practical application of the information and transparency of the decision-making process. HABITAT VIABILITY GOOD DECISIONS, BETTER OUTCOMES JGI has developed 27 SUCCESS JGI’s Decision Support System (DSS) uses state-of-the-art sat- ecologically specific ellite imagery, modeling and mapping tools to visualize data for Chimpscapes across JGI's mission advances innovative work to protect chimpanzee decision-makers. With support from NASA and the University the chimpanzee range in Africa. The map to populations and their habitats across the full range of their of Maryland, JGI created a system that allows us to assess habitat ecological, genetic and cultural diversity. This mandate mean we the left is an analysis changes over time at very high 30-meter pixel resolution covering of habitat viability for must look at every population of chimpanzees, from the larger the entire chimpanzee range in Africa. The system contains chimpanzees across all populations within the lush Congo Basin to the small communi- more than 30,000 satellite images and generates data that are 27 of these areas. ties of chimpanzees in Senegal and Mali that have been observed used to estimate annual habitat health, which creates a complete using caves as shelter. This approach directly ties to Dr. Goodall’s picture of the status of chimpanzees. The DSS represents a new ethic that “every individual matters,” from humans to our closest era for chimpanzee conservation. living relatives. However, measuring success under this approach can be challenging. Chimpanzees are ephemeral animals, making The DSS also allows users to visualize chimpanzee habitat it difficult to get a reliable count in the wild. To remedy these health from a Chimpscape level all the way down to a specific challenges and measure impact, we use two key indicators: area, like a village forest reserve or national park. The health of Chimpanzee Population and Habitat Viability. These key indica- that habitat can then be estimated using standardized data that tors are based on JGI’s management units we call Chimpscapes. track trends starting in 2000 through 2018 and are updated every CHIMPSCAPES year. The time frame covered by the data is important because it provides a range of information for an apple-to-apple compari- Through science-based assessment (leveraging advances in sat- son, ensuring that decisions are made using the most consistent ellite imagery to monitor habitats and threats in near-real time), information. By enabling a big-picture view of threats over time, JGI has developed 27 ecologically specific Chimpscapes across the we are better able to inform our decision-making and focus on chimpanzee range in Africa, which encompasses the full range the areas that most need our efforts. of genetic and cultural diversity of the species. They represent the smallest management units at the continent scale that represent By using the DSS with Chimpscapes and Chimpanzee Population an important combination of insights, including chimpanzee and Habitat Viability, we are compiling and sharing the best POPULATION populations, chimpanzee habitats, and the biodiversity/cultural available information, which produces holistic decisions to sup- port the conservation of chimpanzees and their habitats. Across VIABILITY diversity of chimpanzee communities. Chimpscapes are determined While JGI may not by intersecting chimpanzee subspecies ranges (as defined by an interconnected landscape of chimpanzee communities and be able to directly IUCN) with defined Ecoregions, or ecosystems defined by human populations, this strategy increases the impact of conser- measure chimpanzee distinctive geographies (Olson et al. 2001, 2017). Chimpscapes vation action and builds a world where both can live harmoniously. populations, we use are management areas that enable us to compare habitat health the best available survey data to estimate with population data, allowing us to set up thresholds that Chimpscapes chimpanzee population guide next steps and define conservation progress across the viability. The map to entire chimpanzee range. the left indicates the CHIMPANZEE POPULATION AND HABITAT VIABILITY Why is cultural diversity important? viability of chimpanzee populations across the Chimpanzee populations, like other wildlife groups, depend on genetic Using Chimpscapes, we combine chimpanzee densities and abun- 27 Chimpscapes based diversity to both produce viable offspring and to demonstrate resilience dance over time with the annual changes in chimpanzee habitats on these data. in the face of threats like disease — but what about cultural diversity? derived from satellite images. This approach allows us to have Cultural diversity is just as important, as each chimpanzee community has a finger on the pulse of what and how those populations and its own unique way of adapting to its landscape. Tool use, for example, habitats are doing. Chimpanzee Population and Habitat Viability can vary wildly even between communities only a few miles apart. This indicators are estimated using the Open Standards for the means that their ability to successfully interact socially, mate, find and Conservation of Biodiversity methodology, ranking chimpanzee obtain food, along with other behaviors, are dependent on the natural populations and habitats as either very good, good, fair or in variations of their cultures. And their cultures, like human cultures, have inherent value:: When a chimpanzee culture disappears, it's potentially poor condition. JGI uses this information to direct efforts and gone forever.

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