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Month: September 2013

Quest Overseas to sponsor 2013 Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Award for Individual Endeavour

Quest Overseas is delighted to be sponsoring the Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Award for Individual Endeavour. We will give the nominated winner a fully funded place on any of our 4-6 week summer project teams in South America or Africa, including: Working in the Inti Wara Yassi wild animal refuges in Bolivia Helping to […]

FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR OUR WINNERS TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

This year each school attending Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Annual Awards will receive a FREE 12 MONTHS MEMBERSHIP for National Geographic Kids Magazine and a FREE copy of National Geographic Kids Infopedia National Geographic Kids is a general interest, non-fiction magazine for boys and girls aged six to 13. The mission is to entertain kids […]

Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Celebrate Peace in London

London UK– Following the lead of their hero—renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE—young people from across the UK came together in London for a Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Day of Peace. Students from Eastbury Comprehensive School in Barking hosted the 2013 UN International Day of Peace Parade on the school’s grounds.  Students flew the […]

St Clements SYLVAE Project Update

St Clements Eco Group enjoy a regular link up with our local secondary schools  gardening club, called “Dingwall Academy Diggers”. Through this St Clements pupils develop their gardening and eco awareness skills, as well as  providing an opportunity to improve their social skills. The activities that St. Clements Eco Group did with Dingwall Diggers gave the pupils a […]

Stick together like birds of a feather

We here at the blog love a story about animal behaviour that can also be linked to human behaviour. Call us soppy. Actually it’s not soppy, we figure that the more we can highlight community behaviour in animals, the harder it is to not feel empathy with them, therefore the more likely non-animal lovers are […]

Jane Goodall at St Andrews

HILLARY CLINTON, ROWAN WILLIAMS, TIM BERNERS-LEE, JANE GOODALL AND MARY BEARD HONOURED AT ST ANDREWS Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech and received an honorary degree at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on Friday September 13th 2013. Secretary Clinton gave the graduation address at Younger Hall, North Street, St Andrews, concluding […]

Queen Elizabeth II High School

Each term we highlight the work on a particular school whose project has been extremely innovative.  This term we would like to tell you about Queen Elizabeth II High School’s grow your own clothes scheme.  In the West, purchase of cheap clothes from overseas has a negative impact on both the environment and workers in those […]

UCL Roots & Shoots

“We’d warned the kids last year about energy issues, but we didn’t think they’d be affecting the schools as well! This year UCL Roots & Shoots renewed its successful partnership with Argyle primary school in King’s Cross only to find out, one bitterly cold morning in February, that the winter weather had frozen the school […]