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I couldn't wait to leave South Africa. When I got to Kenya, where my friend was who'd invited me, it was much better. They were just on the brink of independence from British rule, and soon after I arrived in Tanzania, that country became independent too. But of course, the cultures are very different. I sort of grew up being told about different cultures — my great-great-grandfather had travelled all over the world and was very adventurous.
So, [going to Africa] added to the knowledge that I had as a child, from reading and from stories. Q: You are not only a scientist but an activist. Have you ever felt conflicted by the two hats you wear, or do they somehow complement each other?
I started off as a naturalist. I was only forced to become a scientist by [British paleoanthropologist] Dr Leakey, who told me he wasn't always going to be around to get money for me for studying the chimps and I needed a degree and I had to get a PhD at Cambridge University. It was a very nerve-racking experience because I had never been to college and I was doing a PhD. I did get the PhD and I was told I'd done everything wrong: I shouldn't have given the chimps names; they should have had numbers; I couldn't talk about personality, mind or emotions [as] those were unique to us.
But I'd already been taught by my dog that that wasn't true. So I just persevered, I got the degree, and gradually science changed. And now we know we're not the only beings with personality, mind and emotion. After I left Gombe, I began travelling around and learning about the needs of the people and learning about the way animals were treated in Europe, in America, in medical research labs, the cruel training of circus animals. I decided I needed to become an advocate.
And it's never conflicted at all. I've never had any conflict between what I am doing now we still have a research team at Gombe and our method of research. You know, the heart is involved, and empathy with the animal subjects is involved. So it's not what some people would call "hard science". It's not all about facts and figures, although they have their place. When science says you have to be coldly objective [and] you can't have empathy, they're completely wrong.
So I was able to stick up for what I believed, and if you have empathy with your subject you are more likely to understand complex behaviour. Q: On Hopecast, you talk about your Welsh ancestry and how it's benefited you as a storyteller.
How has that gift benefited both the smaller communities that you've journeyed to and the larger global community? Well, what we're facing, we've got a pandemic. We're realising that we brought it on ourselves through our disrespect of nature, our disrespect of animals. We have a climate crisis, and some people don't believe it's man-made. The way to reach people is to reach the heart through stories.
So I tell stories about going around the world, seeing the ice melting in Greenland, talking to Inuit elders who say that even in the height of summer the ice never used to melt. I met people who had to leave their island homes because of sea level rise. It's telling stories like that that make people listen. When I was fighting the medical research labs, I didn't attack the people in the labs. I didn't point angry fingers at them and tell them they had to change their ways.
I merely showed them and told them stories about the chimps at Gombe and what wonderful lives they led compared to these 5ftx5ft cages. And so I think people need to change from within for the most part, and hard facts and figures and arguments [aren't] going to win the day; it's not going to get to their hearts. What are the group's greatest concerns and what are they doing about them?
It started because a group of high school students came to me concerned about different kinds of things, such as poaching in the national parks. Read Dr. Top Bar Left Get Updates. About Jane. About Jane In July , at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees.
Make a difference with us. Through nearly 60 years of groundbreaking work, Dr. Jane Goodall has not only shown us the urgent need to protect chimpanzees from extinction; she has also redefined species conservation to include the needs of local people and the environment. Today she travels the world, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees and environmental crises, urging each of us to take action on behalf of all living things and planet we share.
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