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Resources
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Canadian Guidebooks
For Group Leaders
CHIMP Project Ideas
- 2008 is the year to get involved with the Tchimpounga sanctuary! Adopt a chimp, raise awareness, campaign... Get ideas to TAKE ACTION here!
Identify
Use these "Explore your community worksheets" to identify the issues:
Research
Organise
Getting the Word Out
For your own projects:
For submitting photos and other media to the Roots & Shoots office:
Responding to news:
In the News
- Future looks bleak for many species - Globe and Mail,
October 6, 2008
- Great apes deserve better treatment -
Vancouver Sun, October 21, 2008
- Young Canadian works to save the chimpanzees -
The Ubyssey,
October 28, 2008
- Fishery killing gamut of marine life, scientists say - Globe and Mail, December 15, 2008
- Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans -
Associated Press, January 13, 2009
- Mapping future water stress - BBC News, February 2, 2009
- Putting a price on water - Metro News, February 9, 2009
- Municipalities' group to vote on restricting bottled-water sales - Globe and Mail, March 4, 2009
- Primatologist Goodall: China plundering Africa Resources - Google News, March 10, 2009
- U.N report predicts worsening freshwater supplies - New York Times, March 11, 2009
- Sense & Sustainability: Flora and fauna-friendly finances - National Post, May 6, 2009
- Jane Goodall adds voice to call for bear trophy hunting ban on B.C. coast - Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2009
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Powering our way out of poverty - BBC News, May 12th, 2009
- Going bananas for energy in Africa - BBC News, May 12th, 2009
- Climate change blamed for Caribbean coral deaths - Vancouver Sun, June 10, 2009
- Global PC makers vying for "Green" crown - Vancouver Sun, June 15, 2009
- Government study warns of climate change effects - New York Times, June 16, 2009
- Climate change: Racing beyond Kyoto - Montreal Gazette, June 16, 2009
- Tips for leaving only footprints on your next camping trip - National Post, July 8, 2009
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Boy saves gorillas, one egg at a time - Toronto Star, July 9, 2009
- Cool way to save the planet -- paint the town white - Winnipeg Free Press, July 16, 2009
- New Creatures in an Age of Extinction - New York Times, July 25, 2009
- U.S. groups fight to preserve polar bear hunt -
Globe and Mail, August 4, 2009
- Grizzly bears will never repopulate Prairies, report says - Globe and Mail, August 11, 2009
- Ottawa Bolsters aid to Pakistan - Globe and Mail, August 13, 2009
- Crisis in the Congo - The Windsor Star, August 29, 2009
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Canada's potable water problem -
The Canadian Press, August 30, 2009
- An ecosystem in turmoil puts its predators at risk - The Globe and Mail, September 21, 2009
- Hominid fossil Ardi came a million years before Lucy - CBC News, October 1, 2009
- Black-footed ferret back on prairie turf - CBC News, October 2, 2009
Tip Sheets - created by Roots & Shoots members and staff
Outside Resources
For teachers and students:
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