Partnering with the Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania (JGI TZ), a local NGO, the USAID Hope Through Action project works to protect endangered chimpanzee populations and safeguard their habitat through more effective forest management and empowering local communities with more inclusive governance of natural resources and more productive and sustainable livelihoods in the Gombe-Masito-Ugalla (GMU) landscape. The GMU landscape, located in Western Tanzania, is critical for the survival of most of Tanzania’s estimated 2,200 chimpanzees.