The Hindu -- What does it take to get youngsters to discuss protection of biodiversity and spread awareness? A competition!

Some have described the youth of today as a lost generation, self-centered and hopeless. However, there are young people who are defying that stereotype.

Youth leaders from Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots network, ranging from ages 15 to 23, came from all over the country last weekend to help the Louisiana Bucket Brigade with oil spill relief efforts. Roots and Shoots is a global environmental and humanitarian youth program for young people from preschool through college.

In response to BP's progress in plugging the busted oil well, Obama reminded Americans today that although the long battle to stop the Gulf spill "is finally close to coming to an end," it is far from over, the Oval reports.

Several students from Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program teamed up with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) this past weekend to help keep a spotlight on the cleanup efforts.

Republica -- Renowned international conservation expert Dr Jane Goodall has thanked the government of Nepal for its decision to put a permanent ban on the breeding of rhesus monkeys for export to the Unites States for biomedical research purposes.

Marketing Daily -- To encourage participation, the Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based chain is also linking the promotion to an environmental cause, donating $10,000 to the Jane Goodall Institutes Roots and Shoots group, with an additional 50-cent donation for viewing and voting, for a donation of up to $25,000.

Wicked Local -- Fearing a seasonal drop-off in donations just as the recession drives a surge in need, pantry organizers launched the Stock Our Shelves (S.O.S.) campaign last month. The nonprofit opened on two Saturdays and beseeched residents to stop by to show support and drop off contributions.

Telegraph.co.uk -- Only two modern role models made the top ten - astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell came fourth (4.7 per cent) and Dr Jane Goodall, the world famous primatologist, was tenth (2.7 per cent).

PRWEB -- Southern California Eco-Friendly Family Festival to feature celebrity guests, music and entertainment, arts and crafts, pet adoptions, special activities for kids, and more!

Danwei.org -- Tori Zwisler is the founding Executive Director of the Jane Goodall Institute – Shanghai, formed in 1999. The institute focuses primarily on the Roots & Shoots program which promotes environmental concern, care for animals and care for people among Shanghai’s youth.

thebejinger.com -- With backgrounds in environmental education and eager to spread the green word in China, Mark Thirlwall and Vinny Ng, the co-founders of the China Charity Challenge (CCC), have quite an exciting year ahead of them. 

montrealgazette.com -- Anthony Grippo is only 9 years old, but "he thinks big," says David Meloche, his principal at Children's World Academy. Remembering how clowns had lifted his spirits when he was being treated for leukemia at the Montreal Children's Hospital as a small child, the Grade 4 student came up with the idea last fall of a walkathon at his school to raise money to make sure clowns would continue to cheer other young patients.

Rotary International News sat down with Dr. Jane Goodall . . . to talk about the Roots & Shoots program and working with Rotary. Goodall delivered a keynote address during the fourth plenary session.

Dr. Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist and humanitarian, addressed the fourth plenary session of the 2009 RI Convention in Birmingham, England, on 24 June, stressing the potential for using the common ground her organization shares with Rotary to effect change.

NJ.com -- {...} Hillside Intermediate School sixth grader(s) joined about 40 other students, faculty and parents who participated in a walk-a-thon at the school last Friday. Teacher Katrina Macht organized the event through the Jane Goodall Institute's international Roots and Shoots Program, for which she's been a local coordinator at Hillside since the school joined in 1997.

Time for Kids -- In 1991, Jane Goodall began Roots & Shoots, a program that encourages young people to work to protect the Earth. TFK Kid Reporter Chandler Schaak caught up with Goodall at a Roots & Shoots event at Zoo Boise, in Idaho.

NJ.Com -- Destin Klug, 12, doesn't think it's fair that intelligent African students are denied an education just because they were born into poverty and can't afford school after they're cut off at only 12 or 13 years of age.

Star City Harbinger -- Yesterday, my wife and I met Ida–an energetic sixth-grader with brilliant red hair–who was attending a stall at the Market and raising funds for her new project with Roots & Shoots.

PR-USA.net -- Costa Farms, the largest producer of indoor plants in North America, recently teamed up with Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots . . . to help improve indoor air quality for some of Boston's most vulnerable citizens - newborns and their mothers.

Gulf Times -- Students from Qatar Foundation have been working alongside Doha Zoo to create an ‘enrichment programme’ for some of the animals there, providing them with toys and other materials to make their lives more interesting and enjoyable.

Arizona Daily Star -- Paper-bag puppets took schoolchildren and their parents on a journey Tuesday to faraway lands that house fragile species. The fourth- through eighth-graders at the Lifelong Learning Academy charter school, {...} closed the school year with tales of cheetahs on the savannah, pandas among the bamboo and wolves in the woods.

Kanto Stripes -- On March 13th, the Yokota Roots & Shoots group presented a video on climate change that they had produced, narrated and edited, to the entire Yokota Middle School, in preparation for Earth Day.

Cnews -- The Jane Goodall Institute and the Assembly of First Nations are teaming up to introduce a global youth program to aboriginal communities across Canada.

Calgary Herald -- Fontaine was speaking at a news conference on Parliament Hill to announce a new partnership between Goodall's institute and the Assembly of First Nations that will bring her Roots & Shoots program to First Nation communities across Canada.

ithicajournal.com -- A local homeschool group called Roots & Shoots has created and will donate 30 reusable cloth shopping bags made with recycled fabric to Immaculate Conception Food Pantry in Ithaca.

Clemson University -- Clemson University’s Roots & Shoots and Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) will host an Earth Day Green Fair.

OregonLive.com -- Developed in collaboration with world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute, Chimpanzee Challenge brings the plight of the chimps closer to home, empowering visitors to make a difference by joining a Roots & Shoots group.

ShanghaiDaily.com -- Providing people with useful information on how to live an environmentally friendly lifestyle is the focus of a design fair featuring more than 40 businesses.  All profits will be donated to Shanghai Roots & Shoots and their tree-planting program in Inner Mongolia.

The Daily Evergreen -- For five students, the dirty job was a reality when they volunteered for a spring cleanup at Orphan Acres, a sanctuary for abandoned and abused horses in Viola, Idaho. The event was organized by WSU Center for Civic Engagement, Roots & Shoots, the Environmental Task Force and the International Center.

NewsofDelwareCounty.com -- (Roots & Shoots) Club members were invited to share their accomplishments and personally meet Goodall, in town for a speaking engagement at the Kimmel Center Monday evening.

Gulfnews.com -- On March 28, the world observed Earth Hour, between 8:30 and 9:30pm. In order to raise awareness about it, the siblings embarked on a journey, over three weeks ago, to spread the word.

Indystar.com --Carmel Area Roots & Shoots needs your online votes. The local youth environmental/humanitarian group is one of 10 national finalists in the Clorox GreenWorks "Green Heroes" grant contest to promote the growth of eco-friendly community projects across the country.

Wicked Local -- Holliston's Madeline Tate, 11, is one of 13 local members of Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots who will have photos on display in an exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, titled "What Peace Means to Me."

Wicked Local -- Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots-New England is partnering with Boston Photography Center and the Griffin Museum of Photography to promote youth voice and leadership through a photographic exhibit titled "What Peace Means to Me."

Wicked Local -- Jeremy Pivor of Wayland is among 13 students whose work was chosen for a photographic exhibit titled "What Peace Means to Me" at the Griffin Museum of Photography.

AsialsGreen.com -- Singapore is holding its first ever Jane Goodall Youth Summit. 

Memphis Commercial Appeal -- At St. George's, Roots & Shoots helps the children to think outside their own realm, said Julene Reed, director of academic technology and a member of the Roots & Shoots advisory council.

NewsAdvance.com -- Bedford Hills Elementary School's Roots & Shoots program was selected from more than 1,000 kids' gardening programs to receive a 2009 Youth Garden Grant from the National Gardening Association.

CNN -- In China some [of] its members have embarked on a green audit program, promoting energy efficiency in schools and offices of multinational corporations.

CNN -- Dr. Jane recently visited Roots & Shoots groups in Hong Kong, where she spoke with CNN's Anna Coren about the big environmental issues facing the world today.

Northern Virginia Magazine -- Planting seeds of environmental consciousness for children can be as simple as instilling in them a love of nature.

The Huffington Post -- My second gold nugget is Cassie Zito: a 17 year old youth from the rough neighborhoods in Hartford, Connecticut. She is anything but a "typical" teenager.

Recent Stock Photo Industry -- The Jane Goodall Institute, the leader in protecting endangered chimpanzees, has chosen Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, as the exclusive distributor of unique footage captured by the Institute's renowned videographer Bill Wallauer.

The Times-Standard -- Since its creation in May 2007, the youth-led Sequoia Park Zoo Roots & Shoots group has been working toward the goal of its parent group, the Jane Goodall Institute, of planting 3,000 trees in the United States.

CSR Asia -- Ctrip.com, Chinas’ leading consolidator of hotel accommodation and airline tickets, launched a carbon offset program in partnership with Shanghai Roots and Shoots.

The Sudbury Star -- Local student writes about attending Roots & Shoots-Canada 9th Annual Roots & Shoots Conference.

The Record-Eagle -- After watching the Animal Planet series "Escape to Chimp Eden," McDonnell, 28, of Traverse City made up his mind to pursue a career in wildlife conservation, work in a primate sanctuary and conduct field research.

Carroll County Times -- A youth-led service group in Carroll County will begin hosting a series of concerts to raise money for trees for a Baltimore park and Tanzania.

My Arlington Sun -- Students from Terry Parker High School's Roots & Shoots club supported the United Nations' International Day of Peace on a recent Sunday, flying a large white dove crafted of recycled materials.

The Canadian Jewish News -- In Canada, there are more than 10,500 young Canadians who have completed some 2,500 Roots & Shoots projects, such as collecting garbage in Montreal and rejuvenating rare oak trees in London, Ont.

www.flyernews.com -- Every community needs a strong leader to keep pushing it into the future.

www.Franchising.com -- Kickoff event hosted in Beijing at Xin Zhong Guan.

Pensacola News Journal -- Peace, in all its forms, is the basic idea behind Chalk4Peace, a creative worldwide effort for young artists to share their vision of what peace is once a year.

ABC 6 Kaaltv.com -- There are now thousands of chances to learn on less than an acre of land.

The Huntsville Times -- Academy for Academics and Arts shows that change begins within.

Groton News -- Recently returned from an epochal field trip to the United Nations in New York City, 30 middle school students learned lessons about living conditions around the world that will stay with them forever.

People.com -- Actress Kristy Swanson, 38, and 19-month-old son Magnus Hart attended Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots Day of Peace at Griffith Park on Sunday in Los Angeles, Calif.

Yubanet.com -- As University of California San Diego students start school, they'll walk on new carpet and sit on furniture made from recycled material, drink from reusable water bottles, eat with a full line of recyclable food service products and register in some of the universities' 80 green seminars, workshops and courses.

The Berkshire Eagle -- Michael Douglas got the message. So did Jane Goodall and Elie Wiesel. Midori Goto heard it too.

Londonist -- Jane Goodall. She's the Monkey Lady, right? Dame and doctor? Delicate but distinguished looking, with that lovely white ponytail-- Yes, that's her.

Mail Online -- Gwen Stefani and son Kingston watch dad Gavin Rossdale perform at the Roots & Shoots Day of Peace event in Los Angeles.

The Hindu -- Three-day Flipper Fest to raise awareness about oceans begins.

Skin Inc -- The United Nation's 21st International Day of Peace is being celebrated this week in more than 190 countries this year, with event dates varying for different celebrations.

Eco Worldly -- Renowned primatologist, environmentalist, and humanitarian, Dr. Jane Goodall, has called for the entire world to join in a celebration of peace.

The International News -- International Day of Peace will be celebrated across the globe including Pakistan on September 21.

Gloucester Daily Times -- Celebrating peace is something Rockporters know how to do well.

Willmington News Journal -- Students from Rodger O. Borror Middle School (ROBMS) began preparations for their annual Peace Day Celebration by planting the Peace Pole Thursday.

Quinnipiac Chronicle -- Move over blue and gold, it looks like green might be Quinnipiac's new favorite color.

The Martha Stewart Show -- The legendary Dr. Jane Goodall has revolutionized the way we study and view chimpanzees. It was nearly 50 years ago that she began exploring their habitats and observing their behaviors in the wild.

Boston.com -- The makers of the Big Book of Peace are going to the United Nations.

Redding.com -- Valley dwellers can help reduce waste in the ocean without leaving their home turf.

The Daily News -- There are murals all over Greater Newburyport, billboard-sized visual messages of peace designed by area youths.

The Malibu Times -- Many schools are focusing curriculum on the environment and community service.

The Forest Grove News-Times -- Community members are invited to celebrate a local version of the United Nations International Day of Peace Sunday, Sept. 21.

BBC News -- Actress Natalie Portman has been awarded a "humanity award" for social commitment at the Venice Film Festival. As part of the prize, Portman also received $50,000 (£28,000), which she has donated to the Jane Goodall Institute in Tanzania.

North Shore News -- Two opportunities given to a Roots & Shoots member after he was recently named a Climate Champion by the British Council.

MyCentralJersey.com -- Organizations and individuals concerned about recent vandalism at Hillside School in Bridgewater, have donated at least $7,000 to repair a nationally-recognized wildlife habitat at the school.

The Flinders News -- Students at Hawker Primary School are being healthy by taking part in growing their own vegetables.

The News-Times -- Eight international students meet from countries as distant as Bangladash, India, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Belize and Spain united at Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort to try to solve an international dilemma: how to save our marine ecosystems

Super Conscious Magazine -- Erasto Njavike was a typical Tanzanian teenager in 1992, pestering the local dogs and cats and not thinking too deeply about his relationship to the earth or his community. But then something happened--Legendary primatologist Dr. Jane came to speak at his school.

Deakin University Faculty News -- Lucie Cutting recently returned from a life-changing five-day trip to Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. Lucie was one of 100 youth from six continents and 28 countries brought together to attend world-renowned primatologist, Jane Goodall's Global Youth Summit.