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YES! Poster: Jane Goodall’s 10 Best Things We Can Do For Animals

YES! asked Jane Goodall to tell us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.

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by Jane Goodall

posted Mar 01, 2011

Jane Goodall's 10 Best Things We Can Do For Animals Poster

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Jane Goodall and animal behaviorist Marc Bekoff wrote The 10 Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love. YES! asked Dr. Goodall to tell us what we can do in our everyday lives to carry out those trusts.

1. Rejoice that we are part of the Animal Kingdom.

WHAT TO DO:
Create an ecological garden, encouraging bugs, butterflies, and birds.

2. Respect all life.

WHAT TO DO:
Become a vegetarian.

3. Open our minds, in humility, to animals and learn from them.

WHAT TO DO:
Build bug palaces in your garden.

4. Teach our children to respect and love nature.

WHAT TO DO:
Create places for birds to nest.

5. Be wise stewards of life on earth.

WHAT TO DO:
Do not eat commercially farmed animals.

6. Value and help preserve the sounds of nature.

WHAT TO DO:
Have a bird feeder.

7. Refrain from harming life in order to learn about it.

WHAT TO DO:
Become an ambassador for dogs that need to be adopted.

8. Have the courage of our convictions.

WHAT TO DO:
Be aware of any plans to destroy local areas of wild habitat where there may be endangered species and write letters and go to meetings.

9. Praise and help those who work for animals and the natural world.

WHAT TO DO:
Volunteer at a shelter walking dogs.

10. Act knowing we are not alone and live with hope.

WHAT TO DO:
Donate to animal-related causes.

“Anna’s Hummingbird” (Calypte anna), above, photographed by Betty Udesen as part of her urban backyard bird project “The Teatime Series.” Actual height of the toy cup is 1 inch.

The Teatime Series:

by Betty Udesen

Photo Essay: Early Spanish explorers called them "Flying Jewels." How everyday hummingbirds gave a healing photojournalist a new lens on life.

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Reader Comments

Why only dogs?

Posted by Canadensis at Mar 31, 2011 11:26 AM

There are even more homeless and lonely cats languishing in shelters, please remember them also!

I agree--remember and value the felines!

Posted by Molly at Mar 31, 2011 02:16 PM

Let's be conscious of canine-centricity when it comes to our pets. Cats need homes, too, and they are often demeaned in our culture, which has named dogs as "man's [sic] best friend."

Cats

Posted by John Schindler at Apr 01, 2011 11:28 AM

Pets do not have to be owned. The wild birds are our garden pets and neighbours' cats hunt and sometimes kill the birds. The birds are native to this constinent and the domestic cat is an introduced species.

Dogs vs cats

Posted by Jane mavarthur at Apr 04, 2011 12:42 PM

The main thing is to be compassionate. When we view animals, even so called introduced ones, as lesser value we expose them to being treated cruelly. Remember most of us are introduced and we created the problems.

cats & birds

Posted by carla at Apr 11, 2011 12:13 PM

Development, buildings, construction: all of these cause far more loss of life for birds than cats hunting could ever do. This is a researched fact. It's just that the loss of life for birds in this way is much more covert than when we see Sylvester with TweetieBird feathers sticking out of his mouth.