Project Report
| Jan 24, 2011
Wonderful News of New Friends
By Adina Farmaner | Executive Director JGI UK
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New Friends
Great Story of New Friends
Makasi, Laki and Mbebo are the last chimpanzees that arrived at Tchimpounga after being seized by the Congolese Ministry of Water and Forests. The three chimps stay together day after day playing carelessly beside their guardian Godelin. This is an image and story that usually repeats itself in Tchimpounga. However, some weeks ago something surprising happened; the Center of Tchimpounga director’s dog, a young German shepherd, some five months old, guided by curiosity approached this group of chimps for the first time. Normally chimps at this age are fearful of any new things that appear in their environment, but on this occasion Makasi took the initiative of lunging herself on Lobo and started playing with him. Lobo reacted immediately and started pursuing and rolling on the ground with Makasi, while Leki and Mbebo shyly observed them. Makasi grabbed Lobo by the neck and made him fall on his side meanwhile Lobo moved his legs trying to defend himself. This was the first day of a great friendship. Since that day we are all used to see Makasi and Lobo’s persecutions in the bushes of the Tchimpounga garden.
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May 13, 2010
50 Amazing Years!
By Adina Farmaner | Executive Director
In the 50 years since Dr Jane Goodall
first set foot on the shores of Lake
Tanganyika in what is now Tanzania’s
Gombe National Park, the chimpanzee
behavioural research she pioneered
there has produced a wealth of scientific
discovery, and her vision has expanded
into a global mission to empower
people to make a difference for all
living things.
The Gombe research started in 1960
with Jane Goodall’s observations of
chimpanzee behaviour and became one
of the longest-running studies of animals
in the wild. But it is so much more.
The Gombe research has helped
provide answers to many of the world’s
most-compelling questions, including:
• What it means to be human;
• How certain diseases are spread;
• How to balance the needs of people
and nature;
• How to stop the destruction of
tropical forests, a major factor in
climate change;
• How to improve the plight of women
in developing countries;
• How to help people in developing
countries foster environmentally
and economically sustainable
communities; and
• How to prepare young people to address
the issues impacting our planet.
The impact of the Gombe research
spans the globe and covers a wide
range of scientific disciplines,
including human evolution, ethology,
anthropology, behavioural psychology,
sociology, conservation, disease
transmission (including HIV-AIDS),
aging and geospatial mapping.
Dr Goodall and the Gombe research
have inspired a generation of scientists
around the world, a great many of
them women, to work not just in
chimpanzee behaviour but more broadly
in conservation.
In recognition of Gombe National
Park’s irreplaceable position in our
world’s natural heritage and its
outstanding value to humanity, the
United Republic of Tanzania has
selected the park for consideration as a
United Nations World Heritage site.
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Apr 23, 2009
Thank you!
By Denise Bailey | Development Director
To everyone that has supported our project to date, your donations are really valuable to us and I just wanted to say a big 'Thanks!'
We've only got a few days to go so please pass on this link to your friends/ colleagues/ anyone you think would be interested in the work of the Jane Goodall Institute. Check out the links below for some updates on the Tchimpounga Chimpanzees...
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