Jane Goodall Institute & One Tree Planted: Planting Trees for Chimpanzee Conservation
Jane Goodall Institute and One Tree Planted are planting trees and protecting forests in Uganda for chimpanzee conservation.
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This year, we launched our partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute to plant and protect 3 million trees in Uganda as part of a community-led conservation effort to restore chimpanzee habitat and provide biological corridors for the chimpanzees to safely move between forests across their range.
We spoke with Dr. Jane Goodall on a wide range of topics to ask her about why we need to protect these places and what makes East Africa, the Albertine Rift, and chimpanzees so special.
Why chimpanzees:
Chimpanzees are endangered in Uganda and their population numbers have been shrinking for decades in each of the countries in which they still exist - they’ve already gone extinct in 4. From a population of over 1-2 million just a century ago, there are likely less than 300,000 in the wild today - lower estimates put them at just 170,000 left. As inequity and unsustainable practices have driven human populations to degrade ecosystems through logging, mining, and other habitat conversion, chimpanzees are in danger. As such, working with local communities to listen to needs and engage in supporting local ownership for sustainable development and conservation is core to JGI’s work - it is known as the ‘Tacare’ community-led approach. From Tanzania to Guinea, JGI's Tacare programs reach hundreds of thousands of individuals, improving access to healthcare and family planning, micro-credit, sustainable livelihoods, forest monitoring and restoration, and natural resource management, and in so protecting vital great ape habitat.
What is the Albertine Rift?
The Albertine Rift is globally recognized as a biodiversity hotspot. It ranks first among 119 distinct terrestrial eco-regions of continental Africa in terms of endemic species of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, and second in terms of globally threatened species. Over 50% of birds, 39% of mammals, 19% of amphibians, and 14% of reptiles and plants of mainland Africa reside in this region.
The Project:
This partnership will plant and protect a total of 3 million trees. Through this community-centered work, which will promote sustainable practices and livelihoods like agroforestry, forest monitoring, and more, forests will be given a fighting chance. The reforestation will contribute to carbon sequestration, support ecosystem functions such as water catchment, and maintain a habitat for highly endangered species relying on the Albertine Rift for their survival - including endangered chimpanzee populations. The trees will be split between reforesting protected areas and creating and maintaining biological corridors between protected areas in adjacent regions.
A variety of local trees will be planted based on the needs of specific sites. Species include, among others, Maesopsis eminii, Cordia africana, Milicia excelsa, Mitrigyna stipulosa, Lovoa trichiliodes, Khaya anthotheca (an African Mahogany), and Albizia, Trichilia and Ficus (Fig) species.
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