Jane’s 2024 End-of-Year Message to the JGI Family

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By on Hope In Action, Jane Says, Seriously Good For All

This is a message to the JGI global family — staff, boards, donors, volunteers and everyone else. A message to wish you a wonderful holiday season, whether it is Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other religious festival — or just a year end celebration of all the amazing things you have all been doing to make this a better world.

I am just back from the most exhausting tour ever — including, most recently, six Asian countries in about five weeks. The usual — lectures, meetings, conferences — and getting together with FRIENDS.

Exhausting — yes. But productive, successful — also yes. Money raised for funding the programs of the different chapters. New donors, new projects endorsed, new Roots & Shoots groups formed. New members. Lots of inspired people, more volunteers, more people wanting to contribute their talents.

I shall put together a short account of this tour for the New Year.

In the meantime, from me, the warmest good wishes for your celebrations at the end of 2024. Above all, have FUN.

With wishes also for the end of fighting, for the end of hate, for the spread of love and forgiveness. These may seem unattainable goals right now but, as I always say, if we lose hope we are doomed for then we shall give up and fall into apathy. For the sake of our children, all children and the natural world we love, we cannot lose hope and must go on fighting to make our dreams become reality.

I am so proud of you all.

With my love,

Jane

Photo credits, in order of appearance: JGI Chile, Asahi Nishida, Antoine Duhamel Photography, ED RITGER, Chris Valle Photography, Praha Zoo, Nayan Khanolkar.

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and UN Messenger of Peace, is a world-renowned ethologist and conservationist, inspiring greater understanding, and action on behalf of the natural world. On 14th July 1960 Jane arrived on the shores of Gombe in Tanzania to begin what became groundbreaking studies into the lives of wild chimpanzee communities. The discoveries that chimpanzees make and use tools forever changed our understanding of our relationship to the rest of the animal kingdom. This transformative research continues today as the longest running wild chimpanzee study in the world. Jane’s work builds on scientific innovations, growing a lifetime of advocacy including trailblazing efforts through her international organization of 25 Jane Goodall Institutes which advance community-led conservation, animal welfare ongoing research and care for captive chimpanzees. In 1991 Jane founded Roots & Shoots, an environmental and humanitarian program with 12 high school students in Dar es Salaam. Now Jane Goodall’s Roots |& Shoots empowers young people of all ages to become involved in hands-on projects of their choosing and is active in 75 countries and counting. Today, Jane travels approximately 300 days each year, inspiring audiences worldwide through speaking tours, media engagements, written publications, and a wide array of film, television and podcast projects. Author of many books for adults and children, her latest publication “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times,” has been translated into more than 20 languages.

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