Jane Goodall

By Aubrey Castillo

Jane Goodall was a primatologist and a anthropologist. She was known for studying chimpanzees and for her animal welfare. She was born April 3,1934. Her full name is jane Morris Goodall. Jane is considered to be one of the worlds most experts on chimpanzees.

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jane Goodall has been studying chimpanzees for over 60 years.She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots and Shoots programme and she has worked so much on conservation and animal welfare issues.

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Jane goodall first began studying the chimpanzee called the kelaKasa chimpanzee and there community in Gombe national park thats in tanzania the year 1960.During janes time in the wilderness Instead of her counting the chimpanzees she observed.She gave them names like Fifi and David Greybeard. She observed that chimpanzees have unique and different personality's. She found out that human beings arent the only ones who have personality who are capable of rational thought emotions like joy and sadness

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in 1960 Goodall set up camp on the shores of Tanzania’s lake tanganyika. She studied chimpanzees close up in there habitat. It took months for jane to gain the chimps trust but her patience paid off.
Through her observations jane changed many thoughts about chimpanzees. She saw chimpanzees make tools to use to get food. Scientists believed only humans were able to make tools. She also found that chimpanzees eat both meat and plants. Finally Goodall discovered that each chimpanzee had a distinct personality and emotions.

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Jane was interested in animal behaviour at an early age. she left school at age 18. She worked as a secretary and as a film production assistant until she gained passage to Africa. When she arrived there Jane began assisting paleontologist and anthropologist Louis leaky. Her association with Leakey led eventually to her establishment in June 1960 of a camp in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve so that she could observe the chimpanzees in there region.

In 1964 she married a photographer who had been sent in 1962 to Tanzania to film her at work (later they divorced). The University of cambridge in 1965 awarded Goodall a Ph.D. in ethology she was one of very few candidates to receive a Ph.D. without having an A.B. degree first. Besides her short periods of absence Jane and her family remained in Gombe until 1975 often directing the fieldwork of other doctoral candidates.

In 1977 she cofounded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation in California the center later moved the location of the headquarters to the Washington D.C area, including Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots (1991) a youth service program.

In the 1970s and ‘80s Jane began to spend less time at the Gombe Research Center. She was increasingly alarmed by the changes she was seeing in her beloved Africa. Mining and logging had begun to denude the habitat needed by her chimpanzees; desperately poor people were using slash and burn agriculture to survive. Through her writing and television appearances, Jane became an advocate for conservation, education and human rights. In 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a global non-profit organization. The institute is active in promoting health and conservation in the local communities surrounding the chimpanzee habitats. They are active in bringing ecotourism into the area to provide stable jobs; they build medical clinics and dig wells. They teach farmers to use sustainable methods of agriculture by providing nurseries of swift growing trees to be used as fuel and food. The Roots and Shoots division of the institute is a global on-line community of young people and educators.

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