The funding campaign to make their plans a reality was also launched today. The goal of the collaboration is to foster respect and compassion for all living beings. The museum aims to inspire children newborn through age eight and the adults who care for them to act is ways that will make the world a better place for animals, the environment, and humans. It will be integrated into the museum's family programming. The British primatologist has been studying the behavior of free living chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania since 1960.
Shoots seem very weak, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.
Imagine that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet. Hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots, hundreds and thousands of young people around the world, can break through these walls. The next phase of the Science Initiative and Environmental Literacy Collaboration at the museum is an environmental literacy program scheduled to start at the beginning of the fall 2001 school term. Then in the summer of 2002, the museum will open a unique 1,410 square foot learning space. Located on the museum's second floor, it will be a hands-on environmental area where four to eight year olds get to try on an animal's life and learn respect for other living things while having fun.