In 1991，Jane Goodall began Roots and 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 and Shoots
(1) at Zoo Boise，in Idaho．
Kai Neander，15，digs saving the Earth．
(2) president of the Sequoia Park Zoo Roots and Shoots program，in California，he helped plant 564trees．His group's
(3) is to plant 1，000 trees by the end of the year．"
(4) little thing you do makes a difference，"he says．
Roots and Shoots
(5) young people to volunteer in their communities to help
(6) animals and their habitats．Jane Goodall started the
(7) in 1991．She is
(8) for her study of chimpanzees at Gombe National Park，in Tanzania，East Africa．Today，there are more than 8，000 Roots and Shoots groups in nearly 100 countries．
"I
(9) the idea for Roots and Shoots because I met so many young people who had
(10) hope，"Goodall told TFK．"This program teaches youth that
(11) they all get together，they can make a difference．"
Tara Adiseshan，a high school senior，hopes to
(12) her mark on the natural world．She and other members of the Charlottesville Roots and Shoots Club，in Virginia，began a
(13) to save frogs．Tara worked with
(14) at James Madison University，also in Virginia，to test a
(15) for a deadly fungus that
(16) frogs．A cure is now being tested in the
(17) ．
Tara plans to give talks in local schools to raise
(18) about the threat to frogs．She also invited a frog expert to
(19) at a nature park in her community．
"No matter how many problems we face，"Tara says，"there is still
(20) as long as kids like us continue to care．"