(JA)Students to set up Goodall institute for chimp studies

March 20, 2001

Students to set up Goodall institute for chimp studies

Japanese university students and scholars on primates will set up an

organization to support the research activities of famed British chimpanzee

scholar Jane Goodall as well as to help conserve forests in Africa, group

members said.

The nonprofit group, the Jane Goodall Institute-Japan, will be set up in

Tokyo in November to give lectures and conduct fundraising campaigns to help

conserve African rain forests that are home to large numbers of chimpanzees,

they said.

Last November, a group led by Japanese university students set up a

committee to prepare for the establishment of the organization.

The head of the committee's secretariat, Naoyuki Miyabe, 21, a junior at

Keio University in Tokyo, said, " Through this activity, we hope to raise

public awareness of the current state of Africa as well as environmental and

other relevant issues. "

Goodall began research on wild chimpanzees in 1960 in Tanzania. To support

her research, the Jane Goodall Institute was established in 1976 in the

United States.

Similar institutes have since been established in nine other countries.

The Japan Times: Mar. 20, 2001

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