The reforestation project Jane Goodall founded near Gombe in 1994 was TACARE.
TACARE stands for Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education. The Jane Goodall Institute began the project in villages surrounding Gombe after deforestation had degraded forests outside the protected area and threatened chimpanzee habitat.
TACARE was designed as community-led conservation, not simply a tree-planting campaign. Local teams worked with village leaders on land restoration, forestry, agriculture, water management, education, and sustainable livelihoods. The approach recognised that protecting chimpanzees required addressing the needs of people living beside their habitat.
The name is also a play on “take care.” Roots & Shoots is a separate youth program, while REDD+ is an international framework concerning forest emissions and carbon finance. GRASP is associated with great-ape conservation, but neither is Goodall’s 1994 Gombe reforestation project.