Roots & Shoots
Jane Goodall travels all over the world and talks about the conservation of nature. She said that humans must understand that animals have the right to live, and that they need to be in the wild.
There are kinds of living things that humans must not destroy, according to Goodall. Medicines for human diseases come from plants and insects. If we destroy the wild, we are potentially destroying the cure for diseases without knowing it. She believes that everything in nature is connected: plants and animals make up a pattern of life. Things could go wrong if we destroy that pattern.
Goodall started Roots & Shoots, a group that started with high school students in 1991, to study and solve environmental problems. Groups all over the world choose among three projects, to help people, to help animals, and to help the environment. For Goodall, the most important difference between humans and chimpanzees is that people can share ideas. One person’s choices can be small, but if a thousand to a million people all make the same choices, they can make a big change.