THE POWER OF COMMITMENT 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 1 2014 HIGHLIGHTS BY-THE-NUMBERS CONTENTS Protecting Great Apes Sustainable Livelihoods Gender & Health Letter from Our Founder 2 Letter from Our CEO 4 Continued ongoing care for 154 chimpanzees at the Produced and distributed more than 365,000 different Supported the education of 45 girls, 32 of whom are Tchimpounga sanctuary. kinds of trees and plants that either provide food, enrolled in a college or university. As of 2014, 242 girls About JGI 5 building materials or income for communities and reduce have been supported through the scholarship program. Released an additional seven chimpanzees on to demand for cutting down forests that would otherwise be FEATURES safe, natural, expanded sanctuary sites on Tchibebe and Provided training to 98 leaders who were primarily chimpanzee habitat. Tchindzoulou islands, bringing the total to 35 now living women—in community leadership, family planning and/or Tchimpounga Islands Buildout 6 on the islands. Provided training to 331 farmers in agroforestry and/ mother/infant healthcare. 30,000 community members In Memoriam: Freud and Clara 8 or animal husbandry and provided them with either tree have received education and training from these leaders on Released seven mandrills back into Conkouati-Douli seedlings or livestock to grow and sell. In addition, JGI family planning and mother/infant care. Continuing Jane’s Research National Park, and started the first phase of release with distributed 100 beehives to help families produce honey at Gombe’s 9 five more mandrills. Completed construction of three new healthcare as a source of income. facilities that provide services to 14,500 people. Staff Spotlight: Peter Apell 11 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 Produced 52 radio broadcasts about family planning household costs and demand for cutting forests for PROGRAM UPDATES papers, theses and presentations. reaching more than 70,000 listeners. firewood. PROTECTING GREAT APES 12 Erected an additional ten public awareness billboards in Republic of Congo bringing the total over the halfway point SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS 14 to our goal of 70 total billboards in the country. GENDER & HEALTH 16 HEALTHY HABITATS 18 Healthy Habitats Science & Technology Roots & Shoots CONSERVATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 20 Increased protection of 512,000 hectares (1.3 million Used crowd-sourced forest monitoring beginning in Trained over 1,600 educators to mentor 40,000 ROOTS & SHOOTS 22 acres) of forest in the Masito-Ugalla ecosystem of Tanzania 2012 through 2014 to generate 34,347 observations young people as they address real problems in their through newly established reserves previously considered from Tanzania and 15,006 observations from Uganda community for people, animals, and the environment Environmental Education/ “general land.” of chimpanzee and other wildlife presence and illegal through service campaigns. Public Awareness 26 human activities. Increased forest patrols resulted in the arrests of 115 In Uganda, 82 educators from 50 schools were trained Jane’s Global Tour 28 people participating in illegal forest activities. Helped narrow potential conservation area for in environmental education and given action kits which chimpanzees in Eastern DRC to 66 million acres included six planned lessons and visual aids. Trained more than 160 additional community leaders in of key habitat. Donor Spotlights 31 monitoring forests using smartphones and tablets. 300 students from Sokoine Primary School in Kigoma, Analyzed new data from Global Forest Watch data to Tanzania led a project to learn about and protect trees How You Can Help 35 calculate that the equivalent of 2,000 soccer fields and plants in their local forest reserve that offer medicinal Donor List 36 worth of forests within chimpanzee range have been benefits to community members and chimpanzees alike. destroyed between 2000 and 2012. 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 work on a meaningful project that they dedicated As always, my energy for these long and tiring of the Jane Goodall Institute and our positive children on my 80th birthday. Thanks to Google to the occasion of my 80th birthday. tours and trips come from the inspired young impact on the world. I am so grateful for all of Hangout, I was able to participate in an online people I meet in my travels who are working to your support in making the Jane Goodall Institute birthday party with the world, seeing familiar faces In my visits to Africa throughout the year, I became make the world a better place for people, animals a world leader in the protection of chimpanzees from the early days of the program and the bright excited by JGI’s strides in using technology in the and the environment. I myself am inspired by the and conservation of our planet. I am also incredi- smiles of young Roots & Shoots members from field to track and monitor chimpanzees and the many Roots & Shoots projects I saw this year, and bly appreciative of all who contributed to making around the world. health of their habitats. I am particularly excited by by the enthusiasm of the young leaders pioneering my 80th birthday a success by celebrating in true our continued developments in using satellite imag- youth-led changes in their communities. Not only JGI style, with new programs and initiatives to help For my birthday this year I had several wishes, ery to track habitat and by how many community is Roots & Shoots ever growing, but so are the humans and animals live together in harmony with and am so thankful to see them all fulfilled. First, members we trained this year to gather data on their ranks of educators we train to lead them. the environment. I wanted to see us raise enough funds to ensure local environment. completion of Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Reha- I do not have enough time to tell of all the amaz- I traveled nearly 300 days this year, visiting 67 bilitation Center’s new island sanctuary sites by In my travels to the East, I enjoyed speaking and ing adventures I had in 2014, but in this report cities in 25 countries to speak to young people, the end of 2016. Thanks to the support of donors, touring in Australia, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, you can find out more about the progress of our our supporters, members of the media, JGI staff we raised these funds in 2014 and all rehabilitated Hong Kong, South Korea and the new JGI office many programs around the world. Thank you for and world leaders in politics and conservation. I chimpanzees at Tchimpounga are now on their in New Zealand, our 28th office in the world! In all of the wonderful birthday wishes in 2014 and began the year in Africa, visiting JGI-Spain’s wild way to living in beautiful forests on these new, September, I attended the annual United Nation’s for continuing to support JGI—we could not keep chimpanzee research center in Senegal for the protected island sites. Indeed, many chimpanzees International Day of Peace along with Roots & doing what we do without you. first time. My U.S. and Canada tour after that was have already been moved to Tchibebe Island and Shoots youth. Just after, I joined 400,000 indi- very exciting, as I was able to promote my new are running free through the forest, sleeping under viduals in New York City for the People’s Climate Sincerely, book, “Seeds of Hope,” and act as an ambassador the protective tree canopy. My other wish was for Change March. It was invigorating to see so many to Disneynature’s new film, Bears. I was thrilled Roots & Shoots members around the world to passionate people come out in support of our to take some personal time to connect with JGI natural world. And finally I ended the year receiv- supporters at the annual sandhill crane migration ing Captain Planet Foundation’s Exemplar Award, Jane Goodall which was a true honor. 2 3 A Letter from Our CEO About the Jane Goodall Institute Dear Friends, OUR MISSION The Jane Goodall Institute promotes under- This has been a pivotal year for the Jane Goodall Our Roots & Shoots groups are thriving, now in standing and protection of great apes and their Institute as we began to implement our 30 year over 130 countries. We have utilized technology habitat and builds on the legacy of Dr. Jane conservation plan to preserve 85 percent of chim- to train thousands of educators and community Goodall, our founder, to inspire individual action panzees across their entire range in Africa. We leaders through a massive open online course in by young people of all ages to help animals, other hit the ground running with strategic planning to Roots & Shoots community mapping and man- people and to protect the world we all share. 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- WHO WE ARE ing their communities continues to invigorate and The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) was founded by Our ongoing chimpanzee research at Gombe inspire us, and their efforts this past year impacted Dr. Jane Goodall with the inspirational message Stream National Park continues to teach us more hundreds of thousands of people and animals in that the well-being of our world relies on people about the lives of chimpanzees, which in turn their communities.