THE GREEN MILLENNIAL

Eco Hero: Jane Goodall Beginning in 1957, Jane Goodall started her work at Gombe National Park in Tanzania, Africa. Her mission was to better understand how chimpanzees live and to help build awareness about chimpanzees. Jane wanted people to help protect the chimpanzees and their environment. While there, Jane befriended and lived like chimpanzees and grew to love them. Realizing how important these animals were, she decided to start Roots and Shoots: the Jane Goodall Institute. "Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots provides young people with the knowledge, tools and hopeful inspiration to improve the environment and the quality of life for people and animals." You can go to the Roots & Shoots website for more information: http://rootsandshoots.org/ Go save the planet!

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The great pacific garbage patch is formed by us, humans.  When we produce and consume plastic or any other form of waste, we are contributing to the many deaths of marine wildlife every day.  Midway Atoll, or Midway Island, is located in the Pacific Ocean.  Of the 1.5 million Laysan Albatrosses  that inhabit Midway Atoll, nearly all are found to have plastic in their digestive system.   Approximately one-third of the chicks die mostly due to being fed plastic from their parents. If we reduce the amount of plastic that we produce and consume, millions of marine wildlife lives will be saved. Go save the planet!