FAMOUS PEOPLE
Every individual
matters. Every
individual has a role to
play. Every individual
makes a difference.THE JANE
GOODALL
FOUNDATION
Jane put all her hard work
to good use by setting up
her own foundation in 1977
to protect and study chimps
further. In 1991, she
reached out to the youth by
setting up an organisation
called Jane Goodall’s Roots
& Shoots with some
Tanzanian students. It has
now reached over 100
countries worldwide. For
more about what they do,
go and take a look at
rootsandshoots.org and
get involved!JANE
TODAY
Jane is now 85 years old
and is a remarkable woman.
She travels all over the
world to raise awareness
about chimp conservation
and other environmental
issues. She was named
Dame when she received
her Order of the British
Empire and was also named
a United Nations Messenger
of Peace. Jane is now up for
a 2019 Nobel Prize. We’ll be
holding thumbs for her when
the announcement is made
in October!People
TARZAN AND
JANE
UK-born Jane always had a natural curiosity for
animals. As soon as she could read she devoured
books about them, and one that she read when she
was 10 stuck with her: Tarzan. When she left school it
was very unusual for a woman to study in the field of
science, so she took a secretarial course and began
working as a secretary. When a friend invited her to their
holiday home in Kenya, Jane grabbed the opportunity and
headed across the seas to a new continent, and one that
would soon become her home: Africa. There her secretarial
skills came in handy, because she met famous
paleoanthropologist Dr Louis Leakey, who was in need of a
secretary. But Dr Leakey soon realised that Jane was
destined to do more – and he asked her if she’d like to
study chimps in the wild. And, of course, she did! So,
young Jane travelled to Gombe in Tanzania and started
her now-famous career.We look at the life and work of this amazing
JANE
DISCOVERIES
Jane did something that no other person
before her had done – she studied the
chimps by living ‘with’ them. She
named them and observed them.
She eventually won their trust and
was allowed to see things that
others couldn’t. One day in 1960,
she saw something special – a
chimp she’d called David
Greybeard stripped a twig of its
leaves and used it to fish for
termites. This was a huge discovery.
Up until this stage, people thought
that only humans had the ability to make
and use tools. This quickly catapulted
Jane’s research into the spotlight. National
Geographic made documentaries about her and the
chimps, and she became the subject of much fascination, appearing on magazine covers and in
articles. She went on to discover that chimps were omnivores and not herbivores as previously
thought. She also observed violent ‘wars’ between two chimp communities.26
Jane’s age when she first
started studying the chimps
of Gombe in Tanzania.The number of days per year^300
that Jane now travels to give
talks and raise awareness
about chimps and
environmental issues.DID YOU KNOW?
Jane named all of Gombe’s chimps and they
became so well known that, when a chimp
called Flo died, the London Times ran an
obituary (notice of her passing) in the paper.