On November 3, 2018, Beijing time, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of CBCGDF, celebrated the Roots & Shoots with students and teachers from the Roots & Shoots across the country, as well as representatives form enterprises and environmental protection organizations. They celebrated the achievements of Roots & Shoots made in 2018, and watched the new documentary “Jane”. This worldwide renown, Academy Award nominated documentary draws an intimate portrait of Dr. Jane Goodall, who is a mentor and good friend of CBCGDF.
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This film is beautiful, gut-wrenching, profound. It principally comprised of 16mm footage shot during Jane’s early years by her eventual husband van Lawick, the film’s very existence is something of a miracle even before taking into account how good and insightful it is. Van Lawick’s original footage was believed lost for more than five decades before being discovered in the National Geographic archives, a stunning collection of lush material that focuses mostly during Jane’s first years in Gombe. A lifelong animal lover who was given the unexpected opportunity to travel to Tanzania and embed herself with the chimps as part of study, “Jane” follows Dr. Goodall as she makes her earliest introductions to both Gombe and its chimps. As “Jane” winds on, her accomplishments bleed from professional to personal, pushing onward to the present day and her many good deeds (canny parallels between her and the chimps are well handled and not at all pushy). The film is mostly a love story, though not just of Jane and van Lawick (though theirs is as satisfying as any epic big-screen romance), but of Jane and her chimps, her work, her entire life.
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CCTV famous host Wang Xuechun also attends the premiere. (Photo source: genyuya.org.cn)
When Jane is young. (Photo source: Internet)
Dr. Jane Goodall and CBCGDF have deep roots. As early as the Milu deer reintroduced in the 1980s, Jane began to pay attention to CBCGDF’s work. She visited the Milu Garden in South Haizi, in 1988, 1998 and 2007, three times. She spoke highly of CBCGDF’s biodiversity conservation, praised the "Ecological ‘Belts and Roads’ Initiative" (EBRs) and immediately said, "Please include my name in it." In 2016, Dr. Zhou had a lunch with Jane. They exchanged the information about CBCGDF’s work. Jane wrote a message on the book "Hope for Animals and Their World" presented to CBCGDF, expressing her high recognition and support for CBCGDF. She wrote: “Together, let's make this a better world for all life!" After that, Dr. Zhou and Jane have been communicating through emails, maintaining close interaction and conversations.
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As a friend of Jane, Dr. Zhou thanked the event organizers for hosting the premiere and congratulated Roots & Shoots for its gratifying achievements in 2018. In 2018, the Roots & Shoots community develops rapidly. At present, more than 600 groups of the Roots & Shoots are active in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, and they have played an active role in the construction of ecological civilization.
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Original Chinese article:
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