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Kitchener teacher’s Ugandan experience stirs new appreciation for life back home
06-08-2011 - The Record
KITCHENER — At 29, teacher Jennifer Loebsack travelled to Africa hoping to improve the lives of Ugandans and instead found new appreciation for her own privileged life in Canada.
“When I came back, I thought maybe I need to re-evaluate me,” said Loebsack, a Grade 6 teacher at King Edward Public School. She recently participated in the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada’s teacher training workshops in Uganda where primary school teachers are trained to incorporate environmental education into their curriculum through lesson plans, games and activities.
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Courtice resident shares lessons in Africa
03-08-2011 - Metroland
CLARINGTON -- A Courtice resident recently headed to Uganda, Africa with hopes to make an impact on the teachers and, ultimately, the children when it comes to the environment.
Carla Taylor, a recent Royal Roads University graduate who has a master's degree in disaster emergency management, has a love of community-centred conservation, and jumped at an opportunity to help introduce environmental education in Uganda through the Jane Goodall Institute.
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Local ladies meet chimpanzees and educate Ugandan teachers
02-08-2011 - Lakeshore Advance
Last week, Carla Taylor returned home, along with her colleague and friend, Jenny Loebsack from their journey to Uganda. Although the ladies have many stories to share, one of the highlights for them was meeting wild primates face-to-face. 'Trekking for gorillas in the jungle - whacking our way through the trees and underbrush to find these majestic creatures was unbelievable!' said Loebsack. 'And being able to meet and interact with our closest relatives, the chimpanzees was a very powerful experience.' stated Taylor.
resident teaches in Uganda
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Cobourg resident teaches in Uganda
31-07-2011 - Northumberland News
COBOURG -- A volunteer teacher trainer position took a Cobourg resident on an unforgettable African adventure.
Angela Hoselton, 26, grew up in Cobourg and is a graduate of St. Mary's Catholic Secondary School and now does supply teaching for the Waterloo District School Board. A love for the environment and teaching led Ms. Hoselton to apply for a volunteer position with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) of Canada in Uganda. JGI Uganda and JGI Canada have developed a teacher-training workshop targeting primary-school teachers. The workshop focuses on developing lesson plans, games and activities about the environment that children can understand.
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Dr. Jane in the New York Times!
13-05-2011
Jane Goodall, Illustrated: A pair of biographies connect the primatologist's lifelong work to her chlidhood fascinations.
Jane Goodall speaks to CNN's Ali Velshi about her life's work, legacy and a new book about her.
07-04-2011
Dr. Jane Goodall's Gombe 50 Media Coverage
October 2010 - Calgary & Vancouver
The Gombe 50 anniversary has inspired some extraordinary media coverage around the world. Most recently, Dr. Goodall was featured on 60 Minutes, in a special retrospective in National Geographic magazine, as well as in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.
Dr. Goodall's Canadian fall tour also resulted in some incredible coverage. In addition to major features in the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun and on CTV, CBC and Global, Dr. Goodall took on her first-ever role as Guest Editor in the Sunday, October 24th, 2010 edition of the Calgary Herald (left). Stories related to the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada and conservation were in EVERY section!
Global TV Vancouver caught some of Dr. Goodall's press conference at the University of Calgary on Thursday, Oct. 21st, as did CTV Calgary: http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101021/CGY_jane_goodall_101021/20101021/?hub=CalgaryHome
As always, she spoke eloquently about how environment should trump economics: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20101022/jane-goodall-speaks-in-calgary-101022/
Teaching Hope: The Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots Program
September 2010 - Canadian Teacher Magazine
Every day, we hear bad news. We hear about unimaginable devastation and poverty in developing countries, the mind-boggling pace of deforestation, and the plight of endangered animal and plant species across the globe. The problems are big. They are scary—and sometimes, even the thought of them is too overwhelming to deal with. So how can we possibly instill the necessary strength in each of our students to make them believe that they—as individuals—can make a difference?
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Dr. Jane Goodall’s interview with Steve Paikin on The Agenda
20-04-2010 - TVO
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Goodall can't stop mission
14-04-2010 - Daily Observer
OTTAWA -- Jane Goodall won't stop trying to save the planet. In fact, the spry 76-year-old who travels the globe 300 days a year spreading her message of conservation says she "can't stop. "I do it because I care very passionately about the children. I also care very passionately about the animals and the environment," she said Monday in Ottawa. "If you actually care and you feel that you can do even something small to help, then you just have to go on."You can't stop, in a sense."
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Watch Dr. Jane Goodall on The Hour
13-04-2010 - CBC
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Watch Dr. Jane Goodall on Daily Planet
12-04-2010 Discovery Channel
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Communicating with Homo Sapiens
11-04-2010 - The Ottawa Citizen
After 50 years of ground-breaking research on chimpanzee behaviour, Jane Goodall understands the answers still remain with humans. Robert Sibley looks at the accomplishments of this world-renowned primatologist.
Jane Goodall well remembers when she discovered another world. Nearly 50 years ago, she was just beginning the study of African chimpanzees that would make her famous and redefine the way we view animals. She'd been trying for months to win the trust of a group of chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania. One in particular -- David
Greybeard, she called him -- intrigued her. One day, following him through dense forest, she found him sitting as though waiting for her. She sat nearby. Spotting the red fruit of an oil nut palm on the ground, she picked it up and held it out to David. He turned his head away. She gestured again.
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Jane Goodall looks back – and forward
09-04-2010 - The Globe and Mail
A film about Jane Goodall, Janes's Journey, is slated for release in the fall. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
Fifty years after she first went to Africa on a 'crazy' expedition, her research has revolutionized animal studies, and expanded beyond.
Fifty years ago, people laughed when a sprightly 26-year-old Jane Goodall went to the wilds of Africa to study chimps. There was no money for what she remembers her doubters calling a “crazy” expedition to learn from the human-like creatures in the Tanzanian parks. But her breakthrough observation that they could make and use tools just like chimps in captivity was an epiphany that would change the way scientists studied hot-blooded animals.
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Jane Goodall: Population growth should be curbed
25-03-2010 - Calgary Herald
Humans should have fewer babies to help the global battle against climate change, according to the renowned British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall. Goodall, whose 1960s research on chimpanzees changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals, fears the controversial issue has slipped down the agenda in the debate about man's impact on the environment. "It's very frustrating as people don't want to address this topic," said the 75-year-old English scientist. "It's our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we've inflicted on the planet. "If there were just a few of us then the nasty things we do wouldn't really matter and Mother Nature would take care of it --
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Close encounters key to co-existence
23-11-2009 - TheVarsity.ca
Researcher John Wall assesses relations between humans and other animals
From grad students to seniors, young children to young couples, a diverse crowd came out to U of T’s Faculty Club on Nov. 4 for John Wall’s talk on “A Quest for Co-Existence: People and Other Animals in an Increasingly Human World.” Wall, who is director of the Jane Goodall Institute and a doctoral candidate in Carleton University’s geography and environmental studies department, appeared as part of U of T’s Centre for Environment seminar series.
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Famous chimp expert speaks in Sudbury
25-09-2009 - Sudbury Northern Life
If people try hard enough to help, there is hope for the world's animals, environment and people, said Dr. Jane Goodall to a crowd of almost 1,000 students at the 10th annual Roots and Shoots conference, organized by Science North.
Students, in Grades 4 through 12 from more than 60 schools across the north, attended the conference at Glad Tidings Tabernacle in Sudbury Sept. 23. “We can move mountains if we don't give up,” the primatologist, environmentalist and humanitarian said.
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Goodall cheers shoreline cleanup
25-09-2009 - Inside Toronto
Renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall encourages conservation efforts like Humber Bay shoreline cleanup
Renowned primatologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Goodall shared her message of hope and encouraged global conservation efforts Friday afternoon at the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup of Humber Bay.
“Our little bit seems so small, we know what we should do, but is it worth doing, really? Just me?” Goodall, 75, asked the crowd gathered just west of the Humber Pedestrian Bridge. “It ain’t just me. It’s all of us. We all get together and do the right thing. And certainly, we get the kind of change that the world needs.”
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Chimp champion looks to humankind
24-09-2009 - Globe and Mail
Jane Goodall received world acclaim for her study of chimpanzees in the 1960s. Now, she travels the globe supporting efforts to protect animal habitats.
Global crusader answers readers’ questions on inspiring children, factory farming and how to draw attention to not-so-cute animals.
Jane Goodall is describing a favourite memory from the Tanzanian bush: the day David Greybeard became the first chimpanzee to trust her.
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Jane Goodall returns to Sudbury
12-09-2009 - Sudbury Star
In 1998, Jane Goodall came to Sudbury for a talk, which I still remember vividly. In her introduction, she greeted us with pant-hoots, much like a chimpanzee might have done, and from that point on she had the entire audience in the palm of her hand.
While she was in town, I pitched the idea of doing an IMAX film with her on chimpanzees. I showed her Mountain Gorillas, which turned out to be her first IMAX-film-viewing experience, and she turned to me at the end and said, "Great format, wrong primate," or words to that effect. That evening marked the beginning of a collaboration and friendship that continues to this day.
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Jane Goodall to be honoured by U of T
13-11-2008 - The Toronto Star
World famous primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall is expected to receive two honorary doctorates in Toronto this week, with the first degree to be awarded tonight by the University of Toronto.
The university is holding a special ceremony at its convocation hall this evening to honour Goodall for her lifelong conservation and humanitarian work, and grant her the degree of Doctor of Science, said Jane Lawton, executive director of the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada.
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Goodall steamrolls Madonna in humanity contest
07-11-2008 - Vancouver Courier
Material Girl pales in comparison to researcher and activist from Gombe Reserve
Goodall's other major reinvention came in the second half of her life, when she began campaigning for wildlife research, conservation and education. She now spends most of her time travelling around the world giving talks. Her Vancouver presentation, "Reason for Hope," was not hyped like Madonna's tour, of course. Goodall told of the sorry state of African populations, both human and animal, and had a few choice words for us, too. The central problem of First Worlders, she insisted, is that we've lost "the connection between the head and the heart."
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Goodall continues her global crusade
25-10-2008 - Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - Considering all that is wrong with the health of our planet, it would be easy to assume that Jane Goodall -- renowned for her work with chimpanzees and the environment -- might feel defeated and despondent about the future.
Yet Goodall, 74, remains determined to stay positive, finding hope amid the doom and gloom of the endless reports on the state of our environment.
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Show our own humanity
20-10-2008 - The Ottawa citizen
Jane Goodall, Citizen Special
In the couple of months since the historic Spanish parliament resolution granting certain rights to great apes, the ensuing debate has taken a wrong turn. As commentators have become mired in the nuances of what rights are appropriate for apes or any other non-human animal, we have lost sight of the central concern -- that we continue to use great apes in invasive research, as well as entertainment and advertising, in ways that are unnecessarily harmful and often downright cruel to these amazing creatures.
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George Stroumboulopoulos interviews Jane Goodall
15-06-2008 - The Hour
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Goodall shares love story
13-05-2008 - The Kitchener Record
Jane Goodall may be famous for her love of chimps, but her eyes have wandered at times during the 50 years since she first set foot in Africa. "Animals are fascinating," the primatologist-turned-activist said yesterday in
Kitchener. "If I had 29 million lives, I would be studying them all the time."
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Goodall inspires students to pursue their dreams
13-04-2008 - Calgary Herald
World renowned primatologist Jane Goodall's message is one that may not inspire immediate optimism.
Concerned with massive deforestation that is threatening African chimpanzee populations and the cruel for-profit hunting of chimps, Goodall's issues are immediate and daunting.
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Primates still her primary concern
12-04-2008 - Calgary Herald
Sixteen years ago, Jane Goodall took a flight over the Tanzanian national park where she had spent much of her career. Gombe was the place were the world-renowned primatologist began her work in Africa almost 50 years ago.
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Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope
04-04-2008 - The Edmonton Journal
Speaking in a place called "Jubilee" should bring back fond memories for renowned primatologist Jane Goodall.
Goodall's father bought her a lifelike toy chimpanzee named Jubilee for her second birthday, in 1936. The stuffed animal was named in honour of a baby chimp born in the London Zoo.
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Jane Goodall to youth: “Break through and change the world”
17-09-2007 - The Varsity
This past Saturday, world-renowned primatologist, environmentalist and UN Messenger of Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall, swung into Convocation Hall to give a lecture that commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the Jane Goodall Institute.
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Goodall to speak on battle between awareness, greed
13-09-2007 - The StarPhoenix
Jane Goodall arrives in Saskatoon with Mr. H, who has travelled with her to 59 different countries. World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall landed in Saskatoon on Wednesday for a whirlwind visit featuring a public lecture she will deliver tonight at 7:30 p.m. at TCU Place.
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Chimps have lessons for us: Goodall
13-09-2007 - The Star
A mother's support in the first two years of life hugely contributes to a chimpanzee's well-being, primatologist Jane Goodall said yesterday, citing 20 years of data from East Africa.
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