Jane Goodall, Ph.D.

Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; UN Messenger of Peace;
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

In 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived in Tanzania to study the region's chimpanzees – at a time when it was unheard of for a woman to venture into the wilds of an African forest. Jane's decades of research would redefine man's view of animals.

Jane was the first person to record creatures other than man making and using tools - when she observed chimpanzees strip side branches off twigs to create tools for prying termites from their mounds. Jane also discovered that chimpanzees have complex family structures and friendships, unique personalities, that they laugh, and experience many of the same complex emotions as human beings, such as depression, sadness, anger, happiness, etc.

Jane's chimpanzee research center in Gombe, Tanzania is host to the longest ongoing scientific animal study in the world, and she has established chimpanzee rehabilitation centers throughout Africa for orhpaned and rescued chimps.

Today, an icon of conservation and best-selling conservation author, Jane travels the world with a message of conservation and compassion for all animals and people.