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Jane is a true steward...as we are also called to be!
Posted 3 months ago by Barbara V. from Reno, Nevada

I love how loving you where to all of the animals in your life!!!!!
Posted 4 months ago by Sarah T. from Lexington, SC

It is a crime, just a crime what they do to chimpanzees and other primates in the labs where they experiment on animals. Jane is a true scientist where she studies living breathing chimps in their free environment without torturing or killing them to study in sterile places with non-natural cages. What Dr. Goodall does is ethical. What those do to torture to study is not.
Posted 8 months ago by Timothy G. from Madison (Monkey experiment capitol), WI

Stewardship is a lesson that is spreading quickly. People are learning that a little effort can go a long way and that, as humans, we have a unique responsibility to leave the world better than we found it.
Posted 12 months ago by Christian B. from Richmond, VA

I saw this on my way home from church and I thought "OOH! OOh! Jane Goodall! I know her!" Thanks for putting this in our town.
Posted about 1 year ago by Richard P. from Mapleton, IL

Jane, you really did a lot to form my beliefs and attitudes about our natural world. Thank you.
Posted about 1 year ago by Jan S. from Spokane

I love the work you do and you have given so much and I hope now generations take god care of are planet because wee all live in it thank you sow much for how you are and the great work you do.
Posted about 1 year ago by Gloria S. from Chile

Jane Goodall was gracious enough to spend several hours with our school's Roots and Shoots chapter. She told many stories of her childhood and motivated the children to work for our planet. Jane is truly an inspiration and we all felt so blessed to meet her.
Posted about 1 year ago by Stacey W. from Havertown, Pa

Dr. Jane Goodall is influential for my whole life. Since the moment I knew her story, her dedication and commitment to the environment, animals and human being have inspired me in my thoughts and actions.
Posted about 1 year ago by Shanying C. from Italy

Back in 1992 was when I met Jane Goodall for the first time in my life and she has positively changed my life and now I know to care all living creatures and the environment!

Posted about 1 year ago by Erasto N. from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I LOVE Jane Goodall! I so appreciate all the work that she has done to help people shift the lens through which they view animals and their needs/interests, and I applaud her work to help people, animals and the planet, as they're all connected.
Posted about 1 year ago by Marsha R. from Portland, OR

We could all endure to follow the example of a sensible mind, unselfish intelligence and the kind heart of Jane Goodall...our world would be such the better for it.
Posted about 1 year ago by Becky C. from Bay Area, California

Go Jane Go! I love it! I am so proud of your work. You have inspired me to make a full life change from standard food to organic and from standard products (cosmetics, etc.) to vegan (NO ANIMAL TESTING!) I love you!
Posted about 1 year ago by April K. from Fort Worth, TX

I think this is fabulous and a great thing to honor Dr. Jane with! Being a Roots & Shoots leader and anthropologist, I truly appreciate everything Dr. Jane has done for not only chimpanzees, but for wildlife, humankind, and the environment. She is my hero!
Posted about 1 year ago by Alexandria M. from New Windsor, New York

I'm a Roots & Shoots leader, and am so very grateful for Jane and her life's purpose. It's brought meaning and awareness to mine and my kids' lives! We are on a life-long road through her inspiration.
Posted over 1 year ago by Lara B. from Tucson, AZ

Jane Goodall is truly an inspiration to me. I love how she is so dedicated to Chimpanzees, animals, and Africa. She sets such a good example to all. I will always keep her close to my heart!
Posted over 1 year ago by Lois B. A. from Nebraska

Having met Jane Goodall I think this is one of the best ways to honor the work that she has done.
Way to go and great choice!
Posted over 1 year ago by Amanda G. from Barrie, ON

Jane Goodall's roots and shoots program is inspiring! I hope we can all remind each other to take good care of our planet and help this remarkable woman create a lasting legacy!
Posted over 1 year ago by Jennifer W. from Pasadena, CA

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When Jane Goodall was just two years old, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee, beginning Jane’s lifelong love affair with animals. Her favorite books as a child were about animals, including The Story of Dr. Doolittle, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan books. By the age of 10, Jane dreamed of going to Africa to live with animals.

When she was 23, Jane boarded a ship that took her from her home in England to Kenya. There she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a renowned paleontologist and anthropologist. Dr. Leakey was impressed with Jane and hired her as his assistant. She traveled with Dr. Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition. Though she enjoyed the expedition, it was clear to Jane that she would prefer to study living animals.

Recognizing her unique talent, Dr. Leakey offered Jane, who had no formal research training, the chance to study the wild chimpanzees of the Gombe Reserve in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) a very daring adventure for a young Englishwoman. In 1960 Jane arrived in Tanzania to begin her research at Gombe. It was very difficult for the first few months as the chimpanzees fled from Jane in fear. She persevered. Eventually the chimpanzees allowed her closer, and she began what has become the longest field study of any animal species in their natural habitat, now carried on by other researchers. One of Jane’s most significant discoveries was that the chimpanzees would strip leaves off of twigs to fashion tools for fishing termites from a nest. Previously, it was believed that humans were the only species to craft tools. In fact humans were defined as ‘Man the Toolmaker’.

In 1986 Jane’s life was forever changed. After attending a conference of chimpanzee experts in Chicago, she became fully aware of the devastating environmental threats that, if left unchecked, could easily wipe out the entire population of wild chimpanzees. Jane decided to give up her life in Gombe and became a tireless advocate for environmental conservation and education.

Today Jane Goodall is one of the most recognizable and celebrated female scientists in history. She travels around the world more than 300 days per year where she is known as an environmentalist and humanitarian. In 1977 Jane founded the Jane Goodall Institute www.janegoodall.org which now has offices in 20 countries working to promote community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa as well as a global youth environmental education program Roots & Shoots, which has tens of thousands of members in 100 countries.

Though best known for her work with chimpanzees, Jane is passionate about protecting all animals as well as their natural surroundings and the global environment. Among her many honors, she has been named a Dame of the British Empire (the female equivalent of a knighthood), has been awarded the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the Franklin Medal, the French Legion of Honor, the UNESCO Gold Medal Award, and the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Prize. She has been presented the Medal of Tanzania and Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize and has twice been named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

Mother Nature could not ask for a better agent.