Roots & Shoots DRC: Youth-Led Clean-Up Projects Transform Communities in Goma

Roots & Shoots DRC youth groups are taking action in Goma through school and city clean-ups, promoting environmental care and community responsibility.

Roots & Shoots Rwanda remember Dr. Jane Goodall

On October 16, 2025, Roots & Shoots Rwanda came together to honour the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Dr. Jane Goodall.

Creating a Paradise for Swifts

Nina’s on a mission for swifts: she raised funds by selling homemade pastries, bought wood, and will build nesting boxes with her classmates to install at their school.

Recent highlights from Roots & Shoots USA October 2025

From climate summits to wildlife conservation, from animal shelters to nesting boxes, Roots & Shoots groups in the USA are proving that every project can make a difference.

Honouring Dr. Jane Goodall’s Legacy Through Action

As we honour the life and impact of Dr. Jane Goodall, we celebrate the extraordinary legacy she leaves behind — a legacy of hope, compassion, and action.
For many, grief becomes a path to purpose. Continuing her work, living her values, and sharing her message helps us heal — and supports our work in making the world a better place.
Today, we continue her work by launching the Roots & Shoots Global Learning Hub — a space to learn more about how to take action for animals, people, and the environment.
Made possible through the generous and ongoing support of DP World

Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots – continuing Dr. Jane’s legacy

Dr. Jane Goodall’s legacy lives on in the people whose lives she touched, who were filled with hope by her messages, and inspired to take action to protect wildlife and their habitat — the natural world. Dr. Jane believed in the power of young people to make a positive difference. In 1991, she launched her youth program, Roots & Shoots. Now active in 75 countries and counting, Roots & Shoots empowers young people to live as compassionate citizens. Jane often said that in addition to her chimpanzee research, she wanted to be remembered for Roots & Shoots. 

Today and every day, we are reminded of her words: “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall with Roots & Shoots youth

Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, was a remarkable example of courage and conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals and the natural world. She passed away on October 1st, 2025. For some children and young people dealing with her loss may be upsetting and difficult. We have prepared this information with input from Dr. Mehmet Cevdet Tosyalı, MD with the goal of helping children and young people and the adults working with them through this grief process. Dr. Tosyalı is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who has been in practice for more than 30 years, has held teaching positions at Columbia University, New York University, and Albert Einstein University. He is currently in practice in New York City. He is a long term friend, supporter of Roots & Shoots.

Apple + TV Children’s show ‘Jane’ – Season 2 launches April 19, 2024

Apple + TV Children’s show ‘Jane’ – Season 2 launches April 19, 2024 The ‘Jane’ children’s television series is a partnership with Apple TV+ and Sinking Ship Entertainment and first launched in April 2023. The second series will air from 19 April 2024. The highly-anticipated season two of Emmy Award-winning “Jane” launches globally, Friday April 19th on […]

Celebrating our closest relatives this 5th anniversary of World Chimpanzee Day

Celebrating our closest relatives this 5th anniversary of World Chimpanzee Day

Roots & Shoots groups participate in international day for biological diversity 2023

Roots & Shoots groups participate in awareness campaigns for International Day of Biological Diversity; and Dr. Jane Goodall shares her video message of the day.