Jane Goodall

primatologist, animal welfare activist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall appears in the following:

Jane Goodall on the Future of Primatology

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Fifty years ago, a young Jane Goodall first walked into the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Things have changed dramatically. She talks about the changing political, environmental and ecological landscape in which she has dedicated her life's work of studying the social and familial interactions of wild chimpanzees. She says that what used to be a densely forested area is now "an island of forest surrounded by cultivated fields and people struggling to survive."

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