South Africa

• JGI Executive Director Sue Slotar and Treasurer Pauline Stuart manned the Jane Goodall Institute SA stand at the Grahamstown Science Festival in March this year. They did a great job spreading the word about the work we do, and making new contacts. One visitor had met Zach and Guida, both chained to trees in Angola - and despaired of them ever being rescued. She burst into joyful floods of tears when Pauline was able to tell her that both were now living happily at Chimpanzee Eden!

• Our next Food Garden Workshop in Mpumalanga is happening on July 24, at Magudu School in Mpumalanga. Greg Beyers of Roots & Shoots Mpumalanga recently gave a donation of additional garden implements for the school.

• Chimpanzee Eden now boasts a magnificent new Education Centre where visitors can learn more about chimpanzees and their plight.

• Dr Jane Goodall received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, on 26 May this year. Doctorates were awarded to a number of luminaries, including the co-discoverer of the DNA molecule James Watson, and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, on the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish scientist known as the father of taxonomy.

• We welcome new team members: Johan, a guide at Chimpanzee Eden, and volunteers Andrea Rosenman, who is helping Roots & Shoots, and primatologist Joeleen Beyers.

Greg Beyers and daughter Emma
peer through the window at the
chimps in quarantine