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Dame Jane Goodall, DBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born Valerie Jane Morris Goodall on 3 April 1934) is an English
England

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 UN
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 Messenger of Peace, primatologist
Primatology

Primatology is the study of primates. It is a diverse discipline and primatologists can be found in departments of biology, anthropology, psychology and many others....
, ethologist
Ethology

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,...
, and anthropologist
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
. She is well-known for her 45-year study of chimpanzee
Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially known as a chimp, is the common name for the two Extant taxon species of ape in the genus Pan where the Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
 social and family interactions in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute
Jane Goodall Institute

The Jane Goodall Institute founded by English primatologist, Jane Goodall and Genevieve, Princess di San Faustino in 1977. In 1991, JGI launched its most wide-reaching program: Roots & Shoots concerned with making positive change for communities, animals and the environment....
.

Goodall was born in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

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 in 1934. As a child she was given a lifelike chimpanzee toy named Jubilee by her father.






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Dame Jane Goodall, DBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born Valerie Jane Morris Goodall on 3 April 1934) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
 Messenger of Peace, primatologist
Primatology

Primatology is the study of primates. It is a diverse discipline and primatologists can be found in departments of biology, anthropology, psychology and many others....
, ethologist
Ethology

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,...
, and anthropologist
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
. She is well-known for her 45-year study of chimpanzee
Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially known as a chimp, is the common name for the two Extant taxon species of ape in the genus Pan where the Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
 social and family interactions in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute
Jane Goodall Institute

The Jane Goodall Institute founded by English primatologist, Jane Goodall and Genevieve, Princess di San Faustino in 1977. In 1991, JGI launched its most wide-reaching program: Roots & Shoots concerned with making positive change for communities, animals and the environment....
.

Early life and studies

Jane Goodall was born in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

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 in 1934. As a child she was given a lifelike chimpanzee toy named Jubilee by her father. Goodall was not very interested in animals until her father brought her the stuffed animal. Today, the toy still sits on her dresser in London. After the divorce of her parents when Goodall was 12 years old, she moved with her mother to Bournemouth
Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large town in the Bournemouth in Dorset, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, making it the largest settlement in Dorset....
, England.

Goodall's interest in animals prompted notable anthropologist Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan Archaeology and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa....
 to hire her as his assistant and secretary. He invited her to accompany him and his wife, Mary Leakey, to dig at Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge

The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is commonly referred to as "The Cradle of Mankind." It is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, which stretches along eastern Africa....
 in eastern Africa. He asked Goodall to study the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park (then known as 'Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve'). She arrived at Gombe accompanied by her mother in July 1960. Leakey arranged for her to return to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 where she earned a doctorate in ethology
Ethology

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,...
 from Darwin College, the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
 in 1964. Along with Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey was an American Ethology who completed an extended study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontology Louis Leakey....
, famous for living with gorilla
Gorilla

Gorillas are the largest of the living primates. They are ground-dwelling herbivores that inhabit the forests of Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies....
s, and Biruté Galdikas
Birute Galdikas

Birut? Marija Filomena Galdikas, Order of Canada Doctor of Philosophy , is a primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author of several books relating to the endangered species orangutan....
, who advanced studies in orangutan
Orangutan

The orangutans are a species of Hominidae. Known for their intelligence, they live in trees and they are the largest living arboreal animal. They have longer arms than other great apes, and their hair is reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair typical of other great apes....
s, Goodall was one of three women recently dubbed by some as "Leakey's Angels
Leakey's Angels

Leakey's Angels is a relatively recent name given to three women sent by archaeologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments....
".

Personal life

Goodall has been married twice. On 28 March 1964 she married aristocratic wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick

Hugo Arndt Rodolf, Baron van Lawick , known as Hugo van Lawick, was a Netherlands wildlife filmmaker and photographer.Through his still photographs and films, van Lawick helped popularize the study of chimpanzees during his then-wife Jane Goodall's studies at Gombe Stream National Park during the 1960s and 1970s....
 at Chelsea Old Church
Chelsea Old Church

Chelsea Old Church is on the north bank of the River Thames near Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London, London, England. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, becoming Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall. The couple had a son, Hugo Eric Louis, affectionately known as 'Grub', who was born in 1967. They divorced in 1974. In 1975 she married Derek Bryceson (a member of Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
's parliament and the director of that country's national parks) and they remained married until his death in 1980. Jane and her younger sister, Judy, both suffer from prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact....
, a neurological condition which impairs the recognition of human faces.

Professional accomplishments

Chimps
Goodall is best known for her study of chimpanzee
Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially known as a chimp, is the common name for the two Extant taxon species of ape in the genus Pan where the Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
 social and family life. She began studying the Kasakela chimpanzee community
Kasakela chimpanzee community

File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
 in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
 in 1960. In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute
Jane Goodall Institute

The Jane Goodall Institute founded by English primatologist, Jane Goodall and Genevieve, Princess di San Faustino in 1977. In 1991, JGI launched its most wide-reaching program: Roots & Shoots concerned with making positive change for communities, animals and the environment....
 (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. With nineteen offices around the world, the JGI is widely recognized for innovative, community-centered conservation and development
Conservation movement

The conservation movement also known as nature conservation is a political, social and, to some extent, scientific movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future....
 programs in Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 and a global youth program, Roots & Shoots
Roots & Shoots

Roots & Shoots is a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. In 1991, 16 local teenagers met with Dr. Jane Goodall on her back porch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, eager to discuss a range of problems they knew about from first-hand experience....
, which currently has over 8,000 groups in over 100 countries. Today, Goodall devotes virtually all of her time to advocacy
Advocacy

Advocacy is the pursuit of influencing outcomes — including public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions — that directly affect people?s current lives....
 on behalf of chimpanzees and the environment, traveling nearly 300 days a year. Goodall is also a board member for the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary outside of Africa, Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Goodall was instrumental in the study of social learning, primate cognition
Cognition

Cognition is the science term for "the process of thought."Its usage varies in different ways in accord with different disciplines: For example, in psychology and cognitive science it refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological Functionalism s....
, thinking
Thought

Thought and thinking are mind Theory of forms and processes, respectively Thinking allows beings to model the world and to deal with it according to their goal, plans, ends and desires....
 and culture
Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
 in wild chimpanzees, their differentiation from the bonobo
Bonobo

The Bonobo , which, until recently, usually was called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often, the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus, chimpanzee....
, and the inclusion of both chimpanzee species, and the gorilla
Gorilla

Gorillas are the largest of the living primates. They are ground-dwelling herbivores that inhabit the forests of Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies....
, as Hominids
Hominidae

The Hominidae form a taxonomic biological family, including four extant genus: Homo s, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.A number of known extinct genera are grouped with humans in the Hominina subtribe, others with orangutans in the Ponginae subtribe....
.

One of Goodall's major break-throughs in the field of primatology was the discovery of tool
Tool

A broad definition of a tool is an entity used to interface between two or more domains that facilitates more effective action of one domain upon the other....
-making among chimpanzees during her study. Though many animals had been clearly observed using 'tools', previously, only humans were thought to make tools, and tool-making was considered the defining difference between humans and other animals. This discovery convinced several scientists to reconsider their definition of being human.

Goodall also set herself apart from the traditional conventions of the time by naming the animals in her studies of primates, instead of assigning each a number. Numbering was a nearly universal practice at the time, and thought to be important in the removal of one's self from the potential for emotional attachment to the subject being studied. Among those that Goodall named during her years in Gombe were:
  • David Greybeard, a grey-chinned male who first warmed up to Goodall.
  • Goliath
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , a friend of David Greybeard, originally the alpha male named for his bold nature.
  • Mike
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , who through his cunning and improvisation displaced Goliath as the alpha male.
  • Humphrey
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , a big, strong, bullysome male.
  • Gigi, a large, sterile
    Infertility

    Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to fertilization. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term....
     female who delighted in being the "aunt" of any young chimps or humans.
  • Mr. McGregor, a belligerent older male.
  • Flo
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , a motherly, high-ranking female with a bulbous nose and ragged ears, and her children, Figan
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , Faben
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , Fifi
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , and Flint
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    .
  • Frodo
    Kasakela chimpanzee community

    File:Jane Goodall HK.jpgThe Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that livesin Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania....
    , Fifi's second eldest child, an aggressive male who would frequently attack Jane and who has killed and eaten a human infant.


Environmentalism

Jane Goodall's involvement in tropical forests and conservation has led her to be actively involved in a number of environmental issues, and to found the Roots & Shoots
Roots & Shoots

Roots & Shoots is a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. In 1991, 16 local teenagers met with Dr. Jane Goodall on her back porch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, eager to discuss a range of problems they knew about from first-hand experience....
 youth group. She has also endorsed the Forests Now Declaration
Forests Now Declaration

The Forests Now Declaration is a declaration that calls for a number of new market-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests. The Declaration was created by the Global Canopy Programme, and has been signed by over 200 NGOs, business leaders, scientists and conservationists....
, calling for new market based mechanisms to protect tropical forests. She is a patron of the Optimum Population Trust
Optimum Population Trust

The Optimum Population Trust is a registered United Kingdom charity, think tank and campaign group concerned with the impact of population growth on the natural environment....
.

Criticism

Some primatologists have suggested flaws in Goodall's methodology
Methodology

Methodology can be defined as:# "the analysis of the principles of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline";# "the systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a discipline"; or...
 which may call into question the validity of her observations. Goodall used unconventional practices in her study, for example, naming individuals instead of numbering them. Numbering is used to prevent emotional attachment and loss of objectivity. Many standard methods are aimed at helping observers to avoid interference and the use of feeding stations to attract Gombe chimpanzees is, in particular, thought by some to have altered normal foraging
Foraging

Foraging theory is a branch of behavioral ecology that studies the foraging behavior of animals in response to the environment in which the animal lives....
 and feeding patterns as well as social relation
Social relation

Social relation can refer to a multitude of social interactions, regulated by social norms, between two or more people, with each having a social position and performing a social role....
ships.

It has been suggested that higher levels of aggression and conflict with other chimpanzee groups in the area were a consequences of the feeding, which could have created the "wars" between chimpanzee social groups described by Goodall. Thus, some regard Goodall's observations as distortions of normal chimpanzee behavior. Goodall herself (on several occasions) acknowledged that feeding contributed to aggression within and between groups:

"I didn't see aggression to start with. There's no question that chimpanzees become more aggressive as a result of crowding, as a result of competition for food." (J. Goodall)


"It's very hard to look back with hindsight and say oh well I would have done it differently. If I had gone to Gombe and had access to information about the effect of feeding bananas on wild chimpanzees I wouldn’t have done it". (J. Goodall)


However, Goodall has also said that the effect was limited to alteration of the intensity and not the nature of chimpanzee conflict and further that feeding was necessary for the study to be effective at all.

Some recent studies such as the study by Crickette Sanz in the Goualougo Triangle
Goualougo Triangle

The Goualougo Triangle, is a region on the southern end of the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, located in the Republic of Congo, in Central Africa....
 (Congo
Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea....
) or by Prof. Christophe Boesch in the Tai Forest (Ivory Coast) have not shown the aggression observed in the Gombe studies.

"So far, we haven't seen any abnormal levels of aggression. We've never seen chimps killing other chimps. We haven't seen highly elevated territorial disputes. If I had to guess, I wouldn't expect to see it". (C. Sanz)


"I have not seen this kind of killing in Tai Forest. This violence is not always present". (C. Boesch)


However, not all primatologists agree that the studies are flawed; for example, Jim Moore provides a critique of Margaret Powers' assertions and some studies of other chimpanzee groups have shown similar aggression to Gombe even in the absence of feeding.

Honours

Jane Goodall has received many honors for her environmental
Environmentalism

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the Conservation movement and improvement of the environment ....
 and humanitarian
Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans, in order to better humanity for both moral and logical reasons....
 work, as well as others. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in a ceremony held in Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
 in 2004. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan, Order of St Michael and St George is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007....
 named Dr. Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Her other honors include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an award for environmental science, energy, and medicine. Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 annual prize and a gold medallion....
, the French Legion of Honor, Medal of Tanzania, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
's prestigious Kyoto Prize
Kyoto Prize

The Kyoto Prize has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology....
, the Benjamin Franklin Medal
Benjamin Franklin Medal

The Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal was instituted in 1956 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth and the 200th anniversary of his membership to the Royal Society of Arts....
 in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence
Gandhi-King Award

The Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence is presented by The World Movement for Nonviolence. The award is named after Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Martin Luther King....
 and the Spanish Premio Príncipe de Asturias. She is also a member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine.

In 2002, the Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
 dedicated a walking trail, highlighting some of the city's efforts to rehabilitate environmental damage from the local mining
Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
 industry, to Goodall.

On 7 July 2007 Goodall presented at Live Earth
Live Earth

Live Earth is an annual event developed to combat global warming....
.

In April 2008, Jane was awarded the Montana State University Medal for Global and Visionary Leadership.

Animal welfare activism

Jane Goodall is an animal welfare
Animal welfare

Animal welfare refers to the viewpoint that it is morally acceptable for humans to use nonhuman animals for food, in Animal testing, as clothing, and in entertainment, so long as unnecessary suffering is avoided....
 activist and is the former president of Advocates for Animals
Advocates for Animals

Advocates for Animals, formerly known as the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, is an animal rights organization which campaigns against all animal use including farming, the fur trade, bloodsports, captive and performing animals, and the use of animal testing....
, an organization based in Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, that campaigns against the use of animals in medical research, zoos, farming and sport.

In May 2008, Goodall controversially described Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo, formally the Scottish National Zoological Park, is a Non-profit organization zoological park located in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland....
's new primate enclosure as a "wonderful facility" where monkeys are "are probably better off [than those] living in the wild in an area like Budongo, where one in six gets caught in a wire snare, and countries like Congo
Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea....
, where chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas are shot for food commercially." Mike Wade, The Times, May 20, 2008. Retrieved 18 July 18, 2008. This was in conflict with Advocates for Animals' position on captive animals, who stated "She's entitled to her opinion, but our position isn't going to change. We oppose the keeping of animals in captivity for entertainment." In June 2008 Goodall confirmed that she had resigned the presidency of the organisation which she had held since 1998, citing her busy schedule and explaining, "I just don't have time for them."

Awards

  • 1980: Order of the Golden Ark, World Wildlife Award for Conservation
  • 1984: J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize
  • 1985: Living Legacy Award from the International Women's League
  • Society of the United States; Award for Humane Excellence, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • 1987: Ian Biggs' Prize
  • 1989: Encyclopaedia Britannica Award for Excellence on the Dissemination of Learning for the Benefit of Mankind; Anthropologist of the Year Award
  • 1990: The AMES Award, American Anthropologist Association; Whooping Crane Conservation Award, Conoco, Inc.; Gold Medal of the Society of Women Geographers; Inamori Foundation Award; Washoe Award; The Kyoto Prize
    Kyoto Prize

    The Kyoto Prize has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology....
     in Basic Science
  • 1991: The Edinburgh Medal
  • 1993: Rainforest Alliance Champion Award
  • 1994: Chester Zoo Diamond Jubilee Medal
  • 1995: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, presented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; The National Geographic Society
    National Geographic Society

    The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world....
     Hubbard Medal
    Hubbard Medal

    The Hubbard Medal is awarded by the National Geographic Society for distinction in exploration, Discovery , and research. The medal is named for Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first National Geographic Society president....
     for Distinction in Exploration, Discovery, and Research; Lifetime Achievement Award, In Defense of Animals; The Moody Gardens Environmental Award; Honorary Wardenship of Uganda National Parks
  • 1996: The Zoological Society of London
    Zoological Society of London

    The Zoological Society of London is a learned society founded in London in April 1826 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, eminent naturalists...
     Silver Medal; The Tanzanian Kilimanjaro Medal; The Primate Society of Great Britain Conservation Award; The Caring Institute Award; The Polar Bear Award; William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement
  • 1997: John & Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; David S. Ingells, Jr. Award for Excellence; Common Wealth Award for Public Service; The Field Museum's Award of Merit; Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; Royal Geographical Society / Discovery Channel Europe Award for A Lifetime of Discovery
  • 1998: Disney's Animal Kingdom Eco Hero Award; National Science Board Public Service Award; The Orion Society’s John Hay Award
  • 1999: International Peace Award; Botanical Research Institute of Texas International Award of Excellence in Conservation, Community of Christ International Peace Award
    Community of Christ International Peace Award

    The Community of Christ International Peace Award was established to honor and bring attention to the work of peacemaking and peacemakers in the world....
  • 2001: Graham J. Norton Award for Achievement in Increasing Community Livability; Rungius Award of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, USA; Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Medal, Harvard Museum of Natural History; Master Peace Award; Gandhi/King Award for Non-Violence
  • 2002: The Huxley Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; United Nations “Messenger of Peace” Appointment
  • 2003: Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science; Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment Award; Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Achievement; Dame of the British Empire, presented by His Royal Highness Prince Charles; Chicago Academy of Sciences’ Honorary Environmental Leader Award
  • 2004: Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest; Will Rogers Spirit Award, the Rotary Club of Will Rogers and Will Rogers Memorial Museums; Life Time Achievement Award, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
    International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

    The International Fund for Animal Welfare is currently one of the largest animal welfare and conservation Charitable organization in the world....
    ; Honorary Degree from Haverford College
    Haverford College

    Haverford College is a highly selective, private university, coeducational Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia....
  • 2005: Honorary doctorate degree in science from Syracuse University
    Syracuse University

    Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
  • 2005: Presented with Discovery and Imagination Award
  • 2006: Received the 60th Anniversary Medal of the UNESCO
    UNESCO

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
     and the French Légion d'honneur
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    The L?gion d'honneur or Ordre national de la L?gion d'honneur is a France order established by Napoleon I of France, First Consul of the French First Republic, on May 19, 1802....
    .
  • 2007: Honorary doctorate degree in commemoration of Linnaeus from Uppsala University
    Uppsala University

    Uppsala University is a world-class research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded as early as 1477, it is the oldest such institution in the Nordic countries and is frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities....
  • 2007: Honorary doctorate degree from University of Liverpool
    University of Liverpool

    The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group, and founded in 1881 it is also one of the six original "red brick university" civic universities....
  • 2008: Honorary doctorate degree from University of Toronto
    University of Toronto

    The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....


For a complete list of Dr. Jane Goodall's awards and honors, view her Curriculum Vitae on the Jane Goodall Institute website.

Publications

Source: http://www.janegoodall.org/jane/pub.asp

Books

  • 1969 My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees Washington, DC: National Geographic Society
    National Geographic Society

    The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world....
  • 1971 Innocent Killers (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins.
  • 1971 In the Shadow of Man Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins. Published in 48 languages.
  • 1986 The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior Boston: Bellknap Press of the Harvard University Press. Published also in Japanese and Russian. R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Technical, Scientific or Medical book of 1986, to Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, Boston. The Wildlife Society (USA) Award for "Outstanding Publication in Wildlife Ecology and Management".
  • 1990 Through a Window: 30 years observing the Gombe chimpanzees London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Translated into more than 15 languages. 1991 Penguin edition, UK. American Library Association
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    The American Library Association is a group based in the United States that promotes library and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 65,000 members....
     "Best" list among Nine Notable Books (Nonfiction) for 1991.


  • 1993 Visions of Caliban (co-authored with Dale Peterson, Ph.D.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. New York Times "Notable Book" for 1993. Library Journal "Best Sci-Tech Book" for 1993.


  • 1999 Brutal Kinship (with Michael Nichols). New York: Aperture Foundation.


  • 1999 Reason For Hope; A Spiritual Journey (with Phillip Berman). New York: Warner Books, Inc. Translated into Japanese.

  • 2000 40 Years At Gombe New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang.


  • 2000 Africa In My Blood (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.


  • 2001 Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters, the later years (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company


  • 2002 The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do To Care for the Animals We Love (with Marc Bekoff). San Francisco: Harper San Francisco


  • 2005 Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating New York: Warner Books, Inc. ISBN 0-446-53362-9


Children's books

  • 1972 Grub: The Bush Baby (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • 1988 My Life with the Chimpanzees New York: Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Translated into French, Japanese and Chinese. Parenting's Reading-Magic Award for "Outstanding Book for Children," 1989.
  • 1989 The Chimpanzee Family Book Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio; Munich: Neugebauer Press; London: Picture Book Studio. Translated into more than 15 languages, including Japanese and Kiswahili. The UNICEF Award for the best children's book of 1989. Austrian state prize for best children's book of 1990.
  • 1989 Jane Goodall's Animal World: Chimps New York: Macmillan.
  • 1989 Animal Family Series: Chimpanzee Family; Lion Family; Elephant Family; Zebra Family; Giraffe Family; Baboon Family; Hyena Family; Wildebeest Family Toronto: Madison Marketing Ltd.
  • 1994 With Love New York / London: North-South Books. Translated into German, French, Italian, and Japanese.
  • 1999 Dr. White (illustrated by Julie Litty). New York: North-South Books.
  • 2000 The Eagle & the Wren (illustrated by Alexander Reichstein). New York: North-South Books.
  • 2001 Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours New York: Scholastic Press
  • 2004 Rickie and Henri: A True Story (with Alan Marks) Penguin Young Readers Group


Films

  • 1963 Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees National Geographic Society
    National Geographic Society

    The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world....
  • 1975 Miss Goodall: The Hyena Story The World of Animal Behavior Series
  • 1984 Among the Wild Chimpanzees National Geographic Special
  • 1988 People of the Forest with Hugo van Lawick
  • 1990 Chimpanzee Alert in the Nature Watch Series, Central Television
  • 1990 Chimps, So Like Us HBO film nominated for 1990 Academy Award
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
  • 1990 The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall National Geographic Society.
  • 1990 The Gombe Chimpanzees Bavarian Television
  • 1995 Fifi's Boys for the Natural World series for the
  • 1996 Chimpanzee Diary for BBC2
    BBC Two

    BBC Two is the second major terrestrial television channel of the BBC, aimed at a wide range of subject matter and interests, and specialising in intelligent yet popular programme genres....
     Animal Zone
  • 1997 Animal Minds for BBC
  • 2000 Jane Goodall: Reason For Hope PBS special produced by KTCA
  • 2001 Chimps R Us PBS special Scientific Frontiers.
  • 2002 Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees (IMAX
    IMAX

    IMAX is a film film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and than conventional film display systems....
     format), in collaboration with Science North
  • 2005 Jane Goodall’s Return to Gombe for Animal Planet
    Animal Planet

    Animal Planet is an United States satellite television and cable television , launched on June 1 1996 and distributed by Discovery Communications....


In popular culture

  • Goodall is honored by the Walt Disney Company with a plaque on the The Tree of Life
    The Tree of Life (Disney)

    The Tree of Life is a massive fourteen story tall artificial tree that has been the icon of Disney's Animal Kingdom since it opened on April 22, 1998....
     at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom
    Disney's Animal Kingdom

    Disney's Animal Kingdom is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. The fourth park built at the resort, it opened on April 22, 1998, and it is the largest single Disney theme park in the world, covering more than 500 acres ....
     theme park, alongside a carving of her beloved David Greybeard, the original chimp who approached Goodall during her first year at Gombe. The story goes that when she was invited to visit the developing Animal Kingdom park as a consultant and saw the Tree of Life, she didn't see a chimp as part of the tree. To rectify this situation, the Imagineers added the carving of David Graybeard and the plaque honoring her at the entrance to the It's Tough to be a Bug!
    It's Tough to be a Bug!

    It's Tough to be a Bug! is an 9-minute 3-D film based on the Pixar movie, A Bug's Life. The film was created by Rhythm and Hues Studios. Using lighting, 3-D filming techniques, audio-animatronics and various special effects, the show gives the audience an idea of what it would be like to be an insect....
     show.


  • Cartoonist Gary Larson
    Gary Larson

    Gary Larson is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fourteen years until Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995....
     once drew a cartoon that showed two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" The Jane Goodall Institute thought this to be in bad taste, and had their lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate, in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity." They were stymied, however, by Goodall herself, who revealed that she found the cartoon amusing. Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the JGI.


  • Dr. Goodall also appeared and lent her voice as herself in the animated TV series The Wild Thornberrys
    The Wild Thornberrys

    The Wild Thornberrys is an United States animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2004. It was rerun in the USA on Nickelodeon and occasionally Nicktoons Network until 2007....
    .


  • In the American Dad!
    American Dad!

    American Dad! is a satire United States list of animated television series produced by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions for 20th Century Fox Television....
     episode I Can't Stan You
    I Can't Stan You

    "I Can't Stan You" is the seventeenth episode from the second season of the animated series American Dad!. It originally aired on FOX, on May 6, 2007....
    , a woman complains that her neighbour Linda Memari
    List of American Dad! characters

    This is a list of characters from the American television series American Dad!....
     is hairy, and says that she "felt like Jane Goodall just talking to her".


  • In the video game Justice League Heroes while in Gorilla City, The Flash says "Quick!, Somebody page Jane Goodall".


  • The protagonist in Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, asks Goodall for a recommendation, to which she responds with a gentle rejection.


  • In The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     episode "Simpsons Safari", a character loosely based on Goodall is a research scientist in charge of a Chimpanzees refuge who is secretly forcing them to mine diamonds for her benefit.


  • Jane Goodall is a regular character in the "Steve and Terry" theme of Irregular Webcomic.


  • On her album "Street Angel" Stevie Nicks
    Stevie Nicks

    Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and has sold nearly 120 million albums....
     pays tribute to Jane Goodall with the track "Jane".


  • In the movie George of the Jungle
    George of the Jungle

    George of the Jungle was an United States animated television series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott , who created Rocky & Bullwinkle....
    , Beatrice Stanhope sits next to Ape the Gorilla and says "I feel just like Jane Goodall", to which Ape replies "Ma'am, I have known Jane Goodall, and you certainly aren't Jane Goodall".


See also

  • USC Jane Goodall Research Center
    USC Jane Goodall Research Center

    The USC Jane Goodall Research Center is a part of the department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. It is co-directed by professors of anthropology Craig Stanford and Chris Boehm....


External links

  • Youth oriented offshoot of the Jane Goodall Institute
  • . In Paola Cavalieri & Peter Singer
    Peter Singer

    Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian Philosophy. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics , University of Melbourne....
     (eds.), The Great Ape Project, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1993, pp. 10-18.
  • Video recording of Jane Goodall talk at Google
  • A discussion about primate experimentation
  • , Jane Goodall speaks, by Venkatesan Vembu, Daily News & Analysis, 30 October 2006
  • Charlie Rose
    Charlie Rose (talk show)

    Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show is syndicated on Public Broadcasting Service....
     interviews
  • on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
    George Stroumboulopoulos

    George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canada television and radio personality, and best known as the host of CBC Television's The Hour, a late-night talk show about the world's current events....