Jane Goodall Institute

The Jane Goodall Institute is an international animal and environmental protection organization, which was founded in 1977 by the British primatologist Jane Goodall and Genevieve di San Faustino ( 1919-2011 ). The Institute has set itself the task to improve the treatment and understanding of primates through public education and legal representation to protect their habitats in cooperation with local communities and young people for these tasks to find and train.

Offices are located in Southampton in the UK, in Italy, where the Institute was founded in 1998 by Daniela De Donno, which works since 1991 with Goodall, in Australia and Hong Kong (2002) and Shanghai ( volunteer organization, founded in 1999 ), the Research is, however, in Gombe stream National Park in Tanzania. With the recognition of a non-governmental organization by the Shanghai municipal government to set up the first and only foreign environmental organization in China.

In addition, there is a close partnership with the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies at the American Western Connecticut State University in Danbury in northern Connecticut.

In the Congo, the Institute maintains since 1999 the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center, are 26 hectares of land available, and was set up next to in March 1999 by the Democratic Republic of Congo, a protected area of 72.84 km ² size. It will host orphaned chimpanzees.

The Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School is a furnished for grades 6-8 school in Salem, Oregon, whose focus is environmental protection in the area.