Dr. Jane Goodall’s 2025 Earth Day Message
Dr. Jane Goodall’s 2025 Earth Day Message A stream in Gombe National Park. Photo by Jen Croft. There is one really important message that I want to share on Earth Day 2025: I urge everyone to treat every day of the year as Earth Day. Planet Earth is the only home we shall ever know yet we are relentlessly harming it. We are destroying forests, woodlands, wetlands, peatlands, savannas, prairies and all the other ecosystems I have not mentioned. We are polluting rivers, lakes and oceans. We are emitting greenhouse gasses that are causing temperatures to rise which lead to changing weather patterns with more hurricanes, tycoons, floods, draughts, heatwaves and forest fires that may destroy our homes. We are in the midst of the sixth great extinction of plant and animal life. [embedded content] If we add to this list the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from war, poverty and discrimination — well it is not surprising that more and more people are losing hope. So, peopl…