Eco Advocate Roots & Shoots club in Los Angeles learning about community mapping and caring for trees around their school.
In the United States, Roots & Shoots and Disney Conservation Fund are providing mini-grants to teachers to support their efforts to explore nature through creating community maps that are then used to design projects that improve the local environment, and benefit the local community, both human and animal.
Shawn Sweeney is a senior director of community engagement at the Jane Goodall Institute and works to create connections among the organizations staff, constituents, supporters and the wider world. Shawn has been involved with the Jane Goodall Institute since 2004 when as a college student he led a group of fellow students in Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots at the College of Wooster. Shawn has a masters of education in humane education and has been working in service learning and communications with the Jane Goodall Institute since 2007 when he joined the staff.
