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Jane Goodall: chimp scientist turned activist

February 10, 2013 00:46
When Jane Goodall, chimpanzee activist and the first scientist to observe that apes as well as humans use tools, "knocks at somebody's door they come," said Ian Redmond, chair of the Ape Alliance, a coalition of conservation groups. "Jane is known by and trusted by heads of state, the Dalai Lama ... She's become an icon of conservation," said Redmond, who has known Goodall since the 1980s, the point at which she went from being a scientist to being an activist.

Man's relationship with nature has gone wrong: Jane Goodall

February 10, 2013 00:45
Jane Goodall greets the audience by imitating a chimpanzee, then launches into an hour-long talk on her relationship with apes and how, from being a primatologist, she became an activist to protect them. At 78, Goodall, who has 53 years of studying chimps behind her, is still criss-crossing the planet to raise the awareness of populations and their leaders on the fate of the apes and the need to protect the environment. "I haven't been more than two or three weeks in one place at one time," for the past 25 years, she says.
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