"In 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall ventured to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to study chimpanzees. Her discoveries were groundbreaking and her approach to fieldwork was revolutionary. She immersed herself in the chimps' daily lives and gave them names. Goodall became a tireless advocate for conservation in addition to one of the world's best-known primatologists."
"The biggest problem is greed. People want more and more and more more than they need. Companies want to grow bigger and bigger and bigger and gobble up the competition. And the gap between the haves and the have-nots is getting bigger all the time, causing resentment and anger, rightly so. Speaking of that, a lot of your environmental work focuses on lifting people out of poverty."
"It was back in 1986, when I realized that chimpanzees' numbers in Africa were decreasing and habitat was being destroyed. I decided I should go to a different range of countries and learn more about it, which I managed to do. But at the same time, I was learning about the plight of so many people living in and around chimpanzee habitat: the crippling poverty, the lack of good health and education, the destruction of the environment."
In 1960, at age 26, Jane Goodall traveled to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to study chimpanzees. She immersed herself in chimp daily life, named individuals, and made groundbreaking discoveries such as tool use. She became a prominent primatologist and conservation advocate. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect wildlife and improve human livelihoods as part of conservation. After observing habitat loss and human poverty in 1986, she linked social justice with conservation, promoting education, health, and sustainable livelihoods. She identified greed and inequality as drivers of environmental destruction and campaigned globally for protection.
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