The festival of the year is here! On the 29th of September the annual Global Citizen Festival took place in NYC! Global Citizen is on a mission to promote gender equality, end poverty, improve education, improve public health and the environment. Dr. Goodall was able to attend last year’s festival and deliver a speech for the nearly 60,000 attendees – it was a hoot (Pant-hoot that is)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMCIORIw7I The 2018 annual benefit concert had all of the top headliners (this year included Janet Jackson, The Weeknd, Shawn Mendes, Cardi B, and Janelle Monáe), but accepted no monetary donations. Why, you ask?…
Author: Zoe Cross
CALLING ALL FRIENDS OF CHIMPANZEES! The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is so excited to join you in celebrating the very first annual World Chimpanzee Day coming up this July 14th! JGI, along with JGI’s Roots & Shoots program and many other NGOs across the globe, will celebrate this day in honor of the anniversary of the day when Dr. Goodall first stepped onto what is now Gombe National Park, Tanzania, to study our closest living great ape relative. Dr. Goodall’s initial research on wild chimpanzees has become the longest-running research on wild chimpanzees (or any primate) in the world, and has…
