ane Goodall and Roots & Shoots members plant trees
The Institute’s “Roots and Shoots” program is aimed at getting young people interested in environmental activism and leadership. The group has runescape gold farminghelped connect young people who are interested in working to save animals and the environment.

JANE GOODALL: “Hundreds of thousands of young people around the world can break through and make this a better world for all living things. Main message? Each one of us makes a difference every single day we impact the world around us and if we would just think about the consequences of the little choices we make — what we eat, wear, buy, how we interact with people, animals, the environment –then we start making small changes and that can lead to the huge change that we must have.”

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Jane Goodall’s most recent book is called “Hope for Animals and Their World.” It tells about efforts to save several species of endangered animals.

JANE GOODALL: “I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile.”

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Some of the species Miz Goodall discusses in the book have completely disappeared in the wild, and are only alive because they have been bred in captivity.

The California condor is another such example. This huge bird used to live along the West Coast of North America. By the nineteen eighties, there were only a few condors left in the wild. In a disputed decision, officials took the wild condors into captivity so that their breeding could be supervised and protected. The goal of such programs is to later place the species back into the wild. But preparing the captive bred condors to live in the wild again has not been easy. Threats the condors face in the wild include lead poisoning and mistaking trash for food.

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Other species in the book still exist in the wild, but are endangered. One example Jane Goodall discusses is the Golden Lion Tamarin. She tells about the hard work of a group of researchers who have successfully released these monkeys back into protected areas of Brazil. Her book shows what is possible when people come together to work cooperatively to save animals.

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Jane Goodall has said that it is often easy to feel upset about the destruction of the natural world. But her overall message has always been one of hope.

She says her hope comes from her belief in four things: the human brain, the human spirit, nature’s strength and the energy of young people. She says people are starting to use their minds to solve the world’s many problems and make wiser and more responsible choices. And, she believes in the strength of the human spirit which allows people to reach goals which might otherwise seem impossible.

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This program was written and produced by Dana Demange. I’m Faith Lapidus.

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