Africa Programs
Staff Spotlight: Bill Wallauer
Today, Bill is a sought-after speaker for adults and youth. His infectious personality, great stories and chimpanzee multimedia presentation help audiences understand the chimpanzees’ behavior and emotional capacity, and the similarities and differences between humans and chimps. Bill’s passion for the chimps he knows so intimately truly makes him the Jane Goodall Institute’s “Chimp Champion.”
Water and Sanitation
In the last few years, JGI has provided more than 71,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Tanzania with access to clean water.
Group Dynamics at Gombe
Chimpanzees live in a fission-fusion society whereby members of a community can freely join or leave a group at any time. Food normally dictates whether individuals join or avoid a group. When availability of food is low, chimpanzees, especially females with their dependents, tend to avoid groups.
Staff Spotlight: Grace Gobbo
For centuries, medicinal plants used by traditional healers have been at the heart of health care in Tanzania. Today, this is largely because most of the population cannot afford the high price of imported drugs. Sadly, indigenous medical knowledge and the forests where many medicinal plants are found are disappearing at an alarming rate.
JGI Celebrates 35th Anniversary!
On Saturday, February 25, 2012, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) turned 35!
Staff Spotlight: Debby Cox
A native of Yanco, Australia, 
