Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall

name: Dame Jane Goodall
birthname: Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
birth date: 3/4/1934, 79 years
birth place: London, United Kingdom
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934) is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.Holloway, M. (1997) Profile: Jane Goodall – Gombe’s Famous Primate, Scientific American 277(4), 42-44. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996.