JANE GOODALL’S SECOND-GREATEST TALENT
- sciart0
- Oct 3
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 4
“You’ve just got to be calm and tell stories, and get people to change from within.”
Excerpt from 1st link above: "Her initial concern for chimpanzees broadened to encompass all species, including humans.
Through the Jane Goodall Institute, which she created to expand her research in Gombe, she founded Roots and Shoots, a program that encourages young people to observe the needs in their communities and carry out three projects of their choosing—one for animals, one for people, and one for the environment.
Goodall also widened her view of conservation in Gombe beyond the national park, founding a program to reduce deforestation by addressing poverty in the communities around Lake Tanganyika, improving medical facilities, and helping farmers prevent soil erosion. All of her efforts benefited from her fame and, often, her presence as she visited Goodall Institute projects around the world.
Though she regularly acknowledged her anger about the many kinds of suffering she witnessed, she relied on her characteristic composure to win her audience to her cause. “I suppose I was born a fighter, but a fighter in a rather different way from getting out there and being aggressive, because I don’t think that works,” she reflected on her podcast in 2020.