![]() ‘After a month someone said: “Jane, if you’re interested in animals, you should meet Dr Louis Leakey.” I called him and he invited me to the Natural History Museum where he was the curator. So I couldn’t wait to leave.’ On Meeting Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey (who demonstrated that humans evolved in Africa) ![]() I had to ask what it meant: ‘white people only.’ I didn’t like Cape Town after that because I wasn’t brought up to judge people by the colour of their skin. I loved it until I started reading signs on the backs of the seats and the doors in hotels and restaurants in Afrikaans saying ‘slegs blankes’. ‘The first place I set foot in Africa was Cape Town. I was very excited even though it took almost a month to get there.’ On Apartheid: ‘It took five months before I had enough for a return boat trip to Africa. I went home and waitressed to save up the money. Then a schoolfriend wrote inviting me to Kenya where her parents had just bought a farm. I did a boring, old secretarial course, and got a job in London. ‘I was good at school, but we couldn’t afford for me to go to university. Jane Goodall barbie – made from 70% recycled plastic – will inspire young generations to explore the world On Travelling There: ‘But my mother said: “Jane, if you want to do something like this, you have to work really hard, you have to take advantage of every opportunity, and then, if you don’t give up, hopefully you will find a way.”’ The Dr. It’s full of dangerous wild animals, and you’re just a girl.” ![]() Everybody laughed at me, saying: “Africa’s far away. There wasn’t any thought of being a scientist girls didn’t do that sort of thing back then. I thought: ‘I will go to Africa, I will live with wild animals, and I will write books about them. And what did he go and do? He married the wrong Jane. I read this book from cover to cover, up my favourite tree in the garden, and, of course, I fell passionately in love with this glorious lord of the jungle. ‘We had very little money but I saved a few pennies of pocket money, and I spent hours in a little second-hand bookshop, and I found this little book – a very early, cheap edition of Tarzan of the Apes. Jane Goodall On Her Dream To Go To Africa: Here, we choose our top 12 quotes from the anthropologist’s talk at Sustainable City’s SEE Institute where she was addressing children from her Roots and Shoots programme including Fairgreen International. Now on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project to give animals the right not to be imprisoned or experimented upon, the UN Messenger of Peace is also an honoury member of the World Future Council, which works to pass on a ‘healthy and sustainable’ planet with ‘just and peaceful’ societies to future generations. A key discovery was that chimpanzees use tools which challenged deep-set beliefs on what it is to be human It was a controversial major break-through as it challenged long-held and deep-set ideas on what is it to be human as previously scientists accepted that trait as a definition of humanity. Luckily, she was invited to stay with a former schoolfriend whose family had bought a farm in Africa and with a little ‘right time, right place’ luck on her side, ended up following her dream to study chimps at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, where she discovered their human-like behaviour including the use of tools. Raised in England in a family without much money, Jane believed she’d be stuck in an office after entering secretarial school. She’s the world’s expert on chimpanzees after studying them in the wild for 60 years who, as an iconic female conservationist, has even had a Jane Goodall eco-Barbie fashioned in her image.īut as 88-year-old primatologist, humanitarian, scientist and activist Jane Goodall launches her Roots & Shoots programme education programme here in the UAE to encourage children to help people, animals and the environment, she’s also inspiring us all to have hope for the future.
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