In 1991,Jane Goodall began Roots and Shoots, a program thatencourages young people to work to protect the Earth.TFKKid Reporter ChandlerSchaak caught up with Goodall at a Roots and Shoots 1at Zoo Boise,in Idaho.
Kai Neander, 15, digs saving theEarth.2president of the Sequoia Park Zoo Roots and Shoots program,in California, he helped plant 564 trees. His group's 3is to plant 1,000 trees by the end of the year.“4little thingyou do makes a difference,”he says.
Roots and Shoots5youngpeople to volunteer in their communities to help 6animals and theirhabitats.Jane Goodall started the 7in 1991.She is8for herstudy of chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, in Tanzania, East Africa.Today,there are more than 8,000 Roots and Shootsgroups in nearly 100 countries.
“I 9the idea for Rootsand Shoots because I met so many young people who had 10hope,”Goodall told TFK.“Thisprogram teaches youth that 11they all get together, they can make adifference.”
Tara Adiseshan, a high schoolsenior, hopes to12her mark on the natural world.She and othermembers of the Charlottesville Roots and Shoots Club, in Virginia, began a13tosave frogs.Tara worked with14at James Madison University, also inVirginia, to test a 15for a deadly fungus that16frogs.Acure is now being tested in the 17 .
Tara plans to give talks in localschools to raise 18about the threat to frogs.She also invited a frogexpert to 19at a nature park in her community.
“No matter how many problems weface,”Tara says, “there is still 20as long as kidslike us continue to care.”
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