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Primate Palooza concluded Tuesday, March 29 with a Primate Peace Parade at the Duke Lemur Center lead by Dr. Jane Goodall. Over 200 students participated in the parade, which ended at a small cabin. Dr. Jane spoke to the group from the cabin porch about how to get involved in Roots & Shoots. UNC’s Daily Tar Heel covered the story. For more information about all the activities that happened during this year’s Primate Palooza, please visit our website. Photos to come soon on Facebook.
The Duke/UNC Roots & Shoots group and Duke’s Evolutionary Anthropology department are hosting the second annual Primate Palooza from March 21-28, 2011. Primate Palooza is a week-long celebration of biodiversity conservation, with a focus on primates, and will consist of various events held on both campuses. This year we will honor the fifty years of Dr. Jane Goodall’s pioneering chimpanzee research, and Dr. Goodall will be coming to speak at Duke on March 28.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Conservation is…Art,” a biodiversity-themed art showcase featuring photography, paintings, pottery, and other visual arts. For submission guidelines, a full schedule of events or to get involved, please visit www.PrimatePalooza.com!
On July 8, I will travel to Africa for a 5-week expedition through Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya. For the first week, I will travel to Kigoma, Tanzania and Gombe National Park with Jane Goodall. July 14 marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Jane’s pioneering chimpanzee studies and I have the privilege of being the official photographer for this extraordinary occasion.
I will then meet up with my aunt, Jennifer, to travel to Zanzibar for one week and then Arusha for one week. During this time we will be connecting with several Roots & Shoots and LEAF International groups.
I will then join my parents and brother for a two week safari. We will begin in Virunga National Park where we will search for the highly endangered mountain gorilla. We will then continue on to witness the great migration of wildebeest and zebra in the Masai Mara and Serengeti.
This will certainly be an incredible experience and I look forward to sharing it with you. Please stay tuned for photographs and stories live from the field!
Interweaving her own firsthand experiences with the compelling research of some of the world’s premier scientists, Dr. Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the critical need to protect wildlife habitat. At once a celebration of the animal kingdom and a passionate call to action, Hope for Animals and Their World offers an inspirational message regarding the future of human coexistence with other animals.
Dr. Goodall will be doing numerous interviews related to the release of Hope for Animals and Their World, including “Good Morning America” (September 4), “Bill Moyer’s Journal” (September 4), “The Diane Rehm Show” (September 9) and “Imus in the Morning” (September 21), among others, so be sure to tune in!
As the youngest Board Member at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), I have been involved in the JGI’s Roots & Shoots program since the age of fifteen after I started a Roots & Shoots group at my high school in Asheville, North Carolina. Our group raised more than $3,000 to construct a 60-foot pre-release flight cage for injured and orphaned birds of prey at a local wildlife rehabilitation center, Wild for Life.
As a Roots & Shoots youth leader, I initiated and led a R&S fundraising campaign, which collected over $50,000 for a new dormitory at the Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in Congo-Brazzaville. The sanctuary — Africa’s largest ape sanctuary — cares for young chimpanzees orphaned as a result of the illegal commercial bushmeat trade.
During a “gap year” between high school and college, I served as the first Youth Leadership Fellow in JGI’s national headquarters in Arlington, VA where I worked with other young leaders to implement projects and campaigns to benefit people, animals and the environment. This program is truly changing lives, one person, one creature and one place at a time. Get involved at www.rootsandshoots.org.
