Africa

"Follow your heart. If you meet obscales along the way, use them as stepping stones to reach the stars and to fulfill your dreams and everything else will fall into place. " — Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Veterinarian

Born: 1970-01-08

Hometown: Kampala, Uganda

Education: Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, University of London; Masters in Specialized Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State

Achievements

Discoveries: Led a team to investigate first scabies outbreak in mountian gorillas and traced outbreak to people living around the park.

Expeditions: Studied chimpanzee parasites in Budongo Forest, 1992. Studied mountain gorilla parasites and bacteria in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (1994) and studied tuberculosis at human/wildlife/livestock interface in Bwindi Impenetrable and Queen Elizabeth National Parks (2001-2003).

Biography

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka led a team investigating a scabies outbreak among mountain gorillas in Uganda, eventually tracing it to humans who live around the mountain park preserve. Because of the inadequate health care of the local population, and her identification of disease transfer, Gladys and her husband established Conservation Through Public Heath (CTPH) in Uganda. integrates gorilla conservation and community public health by improving primary health care of both people and animals in and around protected areas in Africa.  Her goal is to control transmission of disease in locations where people, wildlife and livestock converge. In 2008 she was honored with the San Diego Zoo’s “Conservation in Action Award” and in 2006, received the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship. She has been featured in documentaries for the BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, and on Ugandan television.

Read Gladys' full biography from Conservation Through Public Health

Watch Gladys Whitley Gold Award Video Interview...

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Good shoes, camera, binoculars, favorite book and inspirational reading material, including Bible.

Heroes: My mother, Mrs. Rhoda Kalema, who after my father was murdered by Idi Amin, effectively managed a career and parenting. She encouraged me and my sibilings and helped us accomplish our pet projects and dreams. My mother was named the "Mother of Ugandan Parliament" in 1979 and encouraged and inspired women to join in politics to help shape the future of Uganda. Nelson Mandela for his exceptional courage in fighting and overcoming apartheid in South Africa, and continuing to inspire the world to think positively, even after he spent 27 years in prison. Dr. Jane Goodall for her pioneering and groundbreaking work on chimpanzee behavior, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute and encouraging young people to make a difference in the world through roots and shoots. Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, for fighting for what she believes in. Her dedication led to winning the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Kenya, where the environment is being sacrificed to develpment, and where women are considered second class citizens. They are my heroes becaue they have overcome great obstacles to get where they are, and have inspired people to make the world a better place.

Awards and Recognition

Setting up grassroots conservation programs to integrate gorilla conservation and community public health through improving the health care for people, wildlife, and livestock in and around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (2004), Queen Elizabeth National Park (2006), and Mount Tshiaberimu in North Virguna National Park (2008).

Publications

Peer-reviewed research papers

"Find your passion, get connected, keep learning and questioning." — Milbry Catherine Polk

Founder, Wings WorldQuest/Writer

Hometown: Palisades, New York

Education: BA Anthropology Harvard University

Achievements

Discoveries: The long history of women explorers.

Expeditions: Western Desert, Egypt, Greenland, India, Tibet, Alaska, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Prince William Sound, Alaska; Western Desert of Egypt (National Geographic); Yemen; Southern Sudan; Saudi Arabia; Iran; Pakistan; Burma; John River, Alaska; Nepal; Brazilian coast; Greenland, Baffin Island (Students on Ice), Devon Island (Adventure Canada), India (American Museum of Natural History); Chinese Tibet, Andaman Sea.

Biography

Milbry Polk is the Co-Founder of Wings WorldQuest, the preeminent organization supporting women explorers throughout the world. She is the author/editor of a dozen books including; Women of Discovery, The looting of the Iraqi Museum, Baghdad, Egyptian Mummies, has contributed chapters to several books including the recent The Great Explorers (2010), and she is the reviews editor for The Explorers Journal. She lectures frequently and serves on the boards of museums, theater, news and arts organizations. Her photographs have been exhibited widely and she has been published in numerous magazines. Her own explorations have been in the Middle East and Asia and more recently in the Arctic and Tibet. She is a Fellow of Wings WorldQuest, The Explorers Club, The Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. 

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Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Camera, Bandana, Rope, Baggies

Heroes: Alexander the Great, all Wings Fellows

Awards and Recognition

2010 Fellow, Wings WorldQuest 2007 Women’s Environmental Leadership Award, Unity College, Maine 2005 Honorary Fellow, FRCGS (Hon) The Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2005 Arden Seminars Scholarship 2003 Leader of the 21st Century, WomensENews.org 1986 Outstanding Woman of the Year 1979 Robert Flaherty New York State Arts Grant (Film)

Publications

The Great Explorers (Thames and Hudson 2010) Contributor “Marianne North”
Norwegian National Schools Curriculum contributor 2009
Pennsylvania SSAT Contributor 2007-2010
Discovery Talk “Explorers” Card Game (US GAMES 2008)
The Quest (Lulu 2008) novel/ paintings by Cynthia James
They Lived to Tell the Tale (Explorers Club and Lyons Press 2007) Contributor
Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives (Rocky Mountain Books, 2007) Contributor
Explorers Journal Reviews and Contributing Editor (1998-present)
The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad Co-Editor (2005 Abrams)
“100 Best First Person Exploration Books of 20th Century” The Explorers Journal
As Told at the Explorers Club by George Plimpton (Lyons Press 2003) contributor
Exploration Series Editor (Chelsea House Publications 2004) Gertrude Bell, Alexandra David-Neel, Sylvia Earle, Mary Kingsley, Annie Alexander, Sue Hendrickson
Frauen erkunden die Welt (National Geographic/Friederking & Thaler 2004)
Women of Discovery Calendar (Rizzoli) 2003
Women of Discovery (Clarkson Potter, 2001)
Library Journal Award Best Books of 2001
School Library Journal Best Books 2002
Egyptian Mummies (Dutton/Penguin. 1997)
Margaret A. Edwards Award 1998 Best Books
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 1998
The History of Arabian Transportation Cambridge Univ Press
"Legacy" Public Television series on World History RESEARCHER (1982)
"ROLLOVER" Feature Film SCRIPT CONSULTANT (1979)
"MARGARET MEAD; PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND" Film by Rouch and Marshall (1979)

by Jane Goodall and Michael Neugebauer

Publication Year: 1997

Publisher: North-South Books

ISBN: 978-1558588035

$8.95

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Description:

Marc Bekoff is Professor of Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society. A founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, he is the editor of the best-selling The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal

Emotions and author of Strolling With Our Kin.

Quotes:

In "The Chimpanzee Family Book," Jane Goodall's words combine with Michael Neugebauer's photographs to create a memorable portrait of a chimpanzee family. The star of this book is five month old Galahad, who lives with his mother Gremlin and their extended family in Tanzania's Gombe National Park.

Although marketed as a children's book, this treasure is truly one for all ages. In fact, I bought a copy for my four year old nephew some time ago, but loved the book so much I kept it for myself! (Don't worry; I ordered a second copy for my nephew.)

This book is truly a portrait of an entire community. As Jane Goodall follows little Galahad and his mother through a typical day, we get to meet Gremlin's brothers, as well as the other chimpanzees who make up the larger group. Michael Neugebauer's keen eye captures many memorable images--some funny, some touching. Goodall's straightforward prose is the perfect complement to the wealth of beautiful, full-color images. Her insights into chimpanzee life make the book as educational as it is enjoyable.

"The Chimpanzee Family Book" reminds us that the strength of family and the joy of childhood are not exclusive to the human race. And the book is also a poignant reminder of the vital need to protect the chimpanzees from threats to their continued survival.

So whether you buy this book for your favorite child or your favorite adult, "The Chimpanzee Family Book" is sure to become a treasured favorite. 

Reviews:

British naturalist Jane Goodall provides an intimate portrait of a group of chimpanzees in the jungles of Africa which she has studied for many years.

by Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff

Publication Year: 2003

Publisher: HarperOne

ISBN: 978-0060556112

$14.95

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Description:

Goodall (My Life with Chimpanzees; Reason for Hope) and Bekoff, a biology professor at the Univ. of Colorado, offer a prescriptive conservation plan designed to protect animals as well as help educate people about the importance of saving both animals and the environment. The authors, who have also worked on Roots & Shoots, an international service program for young people, explain their position by including personal recollections and statistical evidence. Their position that people have chosen to destroy both animals and habitats and will continue to do so unless they radically change their behavior is stressed throughout the book: "It is sad to have to put a monetary value on the wilderness and on animal species. But until the wealthy nations can agree to pay an annual `rent' on huge areas of land, it seems likely that governments in the developing world will exploit their natural resources in any way they can...." The steps to action, including "Praise and Help Those Who Work For Animals and the Natural World" and "Value and Help Preserve the Sounds of Nature," are sound. For example, having children work with animal protection programs has already been successfully tried. Suggesting that kids "adopt" animal programs by making monetary donations is also practical. The book is particularly likely to interest people already active in environmental causes.

Quotes:

This is a wonderful book, filled with information and perspectives from which everyone will benefit. I recommend this book to "the converted" as well as to those who are unsure what all the vegetarians and animal-rights people are going on about. It's not a preachy book and it's not purely for animal lovers or "tree-huggers" -- it's a book for any human who cares (even slightly) about how his or her life affects other lives--the life of the planet and the lives of the animals (including humans) who live on it. I cannot imagine anyone who could read this book and not be affected by it. It's also very encouraging to read about the success of Ms. Goodall's Roots & Shoots program -- hopefully, the generations touched by her knowledge will do a better job than we have.  -Laurie Ulrich Fuller

Reviews:

Adult/High School-Hiking through the mountains of Colorado, Bekoff found inspiration for a series of exhortations that he and Goodall believe would drastically improve all animal life (humans included) if enough people took action. Among the 10 trusts are "Rejoice that we are part of the animal kingdom"; "Refrain from harming life in order to learn about it"; and "Have the courage of our convictions." A blend of anecdotes and scientific data illustrates why each trust is important. Informal in style, the book leisurely goes back and forth between authors, creating a conversational feel that works nicely. Plenty of primate stories from Goodall are intermingled with dog tales from canine-loving Bekoff. Particularly riveting are his accounts of his personal involvement with animal experiments. Along with what is cited in the text, the section on sources includes more than a dozen pages of books, articles, and Web sites. Here, readers who are already familiar with animal-rights issues will find fuel for their fire, and those who are not are likely to experience an awakening. Without a doubt, Goodall and Bekoff are very good at tugging at the heartstrings while feeding the mind. Eco-warriors will adore this one.

Sheila Shoup, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

by Goodall Inst

Publication Year: 1999

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

ISBN: 978-1556709470

$18.00

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Description:

This reverent and beautifully photographed album celebrates the chimpanzees of Gombe and Jane Goodall's career as both a pioneering field biologist and a moral leader in the humane treatment and rehabilitation of laboratory animals. The brief biographical chapters repeat anecdotes from her recent autobiography Reason for Hope (LJ 9/15/99); later chapters provide more coverage of her work with organizations such as ChimpanZoo, chimpanzee sanctuaries, and Roots and Shoots, a youth environmental program. A recurring theme is Goodall's powerful motivation to bond personally with the chimpanzees she comes into contact with, be they orphans, lab animals, or even wild chimpanzees in her research study. Perhaps a more critical account of her career will explore the appropriateness of her approach in conducting scientific field studies. For now, her status as a patron saint of chimpanzees seems assured. Recommended for academic and public libraries.

-Beth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., VA 

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I bought this book for my girlfriend, who is a huge fan of Jane Goodall. But I find myself picking it up and reading through it a lot. This book is an excellent read, for the casual animal lover as well as those with a deep interest in primatology.

The book covers much of Jane Goodall's life, including biographical info, historical research milestones, and even those special moments that make Goodall the concerned activist she is. It has well-written text and beautiful, high-quality photos. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Jane Goodall, especially those who do not know much about her and would like a starter reference book.  -Mark Belonio

Reviews:

Jane Goodall is the most famous primatologist, possibly the most famous field biologist, of the 20th century. Her chimpanzee research did more to increase human knowledge of the lives of our closest relatives than that of any other scientist. It's in large part due to her example that primatology is the closest thing to a female-dominated science.

But in 1986 Goodall gave up fieldwork for a higher, more pressing calling: rescuing chimpanzees from inhumane conditions in captivity and preserving the species from extinction. Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe is a pictorial tribute to her life, her studies of the chimpanzees, and her unflagging efforts to motivate human beings on their behalf.

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference." Goodall began her research by giving the chimpanzees names, by observing them as nonhuman individuals. Her activism is directed toward the human individuals: scientists who use apes in research, Africans who live near wild apes, children in Africa and in the industrialized world who can learn to value other creatures for themselves. Goodall says of this last project that "I think Roots & Shoots is probably the reason I came into the world. Yet I couldn't have done it without all those years with the chimpanzees and an understanding that led to a blurring of the line between 'man' and 'beasts.'" --Mary Ellen Curtin 

by Jane Goodall

Publication Year: 2001

Publisher: Mariner Books

ISBN: 978-0618127351

$15.00

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Description:

Africa may not always have been in Jane Goodall's blood, but animals were there right from the start: the list of recipients in what one hopes is only the first volume of her letters includes Dido the dog and Pickles the cat. And this is no flight of editorial fantasy. Goodall always accorded these members of her "darlingest family" their proper place alongside such correspondents as her mother, her father, her best friend, and her mentor, Louis Leakey (a.k.a. FFF, Foster Fairy Father). Africa in My Blood opens with 7-year-old Valerie Jane's encounters with various canines (real and porcelain) as well as signs of incipient naturalism--she has found "a ded rook he died of cold" and is caretaking a "catepiler." In the same communiqué, she also notes that her toy chimp has a new dress. Goodall would later prefer her primates au naturel but would continue to balance her urge for living taxonomy with love and empathy.

Culled from more than 16,000 letters, this collection will inspire Goodall adepts and those coming upon her for the first time. Her "autobiography in letters" restores this icon to full, even frivolous, humanity. It also recalls a lost era of inspired amateurism. When she went off to Nairobi at 23 in the spring of 1957, Goodall had no formal scientific training. Yet within weeks she had met Leakey and was soon working with him, not to mention rebuffing his advances, though she assures her mother that "he's much too fond of me for any monkey business."

Quotes:

For those of us who may think we know Jane Goodall as theheroine of National Geographic specials, the champion of primateintelligence and animal rights, one of the great scientists of thetwentieth century, Africa in My Blood comes as a revelation. Here is the young girl and woman discovering life for the first time, having a crush on the local curate, writing to her best friend Sally and her "Darling Family," traveling by slow boat to Africa, and then launching the career that we have never seen through such fresh eyes. Most astonishing of all, it turns out that Jane Goodall is a splendid writer of letters, which are full of comic anecdotes and finely-observed details, capturing in vivid prose the immediate events of her life and much wonderful material not included in her other books. Dale Peterson has done a superb job of editing, organizing, and introducing this monumental collection, showing Goodall as both private and professional woman, in both intimate portrait and dazzling display of her gifts as a writer. One can only hope that a second volume is on its way soon. END

Reviews:

No one, perhaps, has done more for great apes than Goodall, whose decades of work with Kenyan chimpanzees showed the rest of the world how chimps live--how they use tools, eat, sleep, have sex, raise their young, fight, make peace--demonstrating that they deserve further study as well as human protection. Here, in a follow-up to last year's spiritual autobiography Reason for Hope, are displayed the roots of that work, in a thick, fun, enlightening, somewhat diffuse compilation of letters that Goodall wrote to relatives, friends and colleagues over the first 32 years of her life, now amplified by Peterson's introduction and annotations. The earliest letters show the preteen Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall at school in England, chattily inviting her best friend to see her collection of "quite a lot of caterpillars." Later batches describe life in "Chimpland," where Goodall and her co-workers have set up their ongoing project. We see a mother chimp and her neighbors react to a baby; we also see Goodall, then-husband Hugo van Lawick and a cast of dozens handle the practical problems of running a jungle encampment, from parasites to postage and publicity. Goodall describes her work with her mentor, paleontologist Louis Leakey; shows her continued affection for her family; keeps up with U.S. and European animal-behavior researchers such as Konrad Lorenz; and narrates "the proudest [day] of my whole life to date": the chimpanzee "David G--yes--he has TAKEN BANANAS FROM MY HAND." This volume covers only the "early years" (1934-1966); readers who care about animal behavior--or who enjoy the collected letters of a fascinating, friendly and dedicated woman--will hope for a sequel. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. Author tour. (Apr.)

"Be true to yourself, be persistent and flexible, laugh, learn from others, share information with others. Never give in to fear." — Anna Curtenius Roosevelt

Archaeologist and professor

Born: 1946-01-01

Hometown: Evanston, IL

Education: PhD in Anthropology

Achievements

Discoveries: Early projectile points in the Cavern of the Painted Rock, Brazil

Expeditions: Venezuela, Brazil, Central African Republic, Peru

Biography

Dr. Anna C. Roosevelt is an anthropologist interested in human ecology and evolution.  She earned her B.A. degree in History from Stanford University in 1968, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia in 1977. She has authored numerous books, monographs, and scientific articles on archaeological topics, and serves on various editorial boards including Latin American Antiquity. Dr. Roosevelt's research focuses on the changing relationship of humans and their environments. Since 1983, she has conducted a research project in the Brazilian Amazon, where she is perhaps best known for her discoveries at Pedra Pintada, a site first occupied 11,000 years ago by some of the earliest Americans. Professor Roosevelt specializes in two main geographic areas, the Middle Amazon and the Congo Basin. In the Amazon, she works at multiple sites, including those in Paraguay and Brazil. Her Congo Basin research is in Bayanga in the southwestern Central African Republic, and in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo. For 25 years, she has studied long-term human-environmental interaction in the tropics with funding from National Science Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities, Fulbright Commission, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the University of Illinois. Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Royal Geographical Society, she was awarded a 5-year MacArthur Fellowship for her interdisciplinary research. She holds the Explorers Medal, Society of Women Geographers' Gold Medal, Order of Rio Branco and Bettendorf medals (Brazil), and honorary doctorates from Mt. Holyoke and Northeastern University, Boston.

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: My 1971 Pentax camera

Heroes: My great aunt, Ethel R. Derby

"Ignore what others say about what you can't do and follow your heart. The true success of a person is measured by how close she gets to fulfilling her aspirations." — Ana Cristina Pinto-Llona

Research Scientist in Archaeology

Born: 1959-01-01

Hometown: Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Education: PhD in Archaeology

Achievements

Discoveries: The Sopena, a cave where first Neanderthals and later early modern humans lived for thousands of years. Also, I proved that supposedly vegetarian cave bears were in fact active cannibalistic scavengers!

Expeditions: Spain, South Africa and Tanzania

Biography

Ana Cristina Pinto-Llona is an archaeologist who spent much of her life organizing archaeological and palaeontological excavations in northern Spain. Her research on the palaeoecology of cave bears has changed the views on how these extinct animals lived and interacted with prehistoric humans, and her work in caves with fossils of mammoths, elephants, rhinoceros, lions and leopards in the same area has offered new perspectives on the extinction of these animals in southern Europe. She explored and probed several caves in Spain looking for testimonies on the origins of modern humans and in 2002 she made an astonishing discovery in a remote cave in northern Spain. Her test excavations revealed an occupation sequence ranging from the Early Upper Paleolithic to the Mousterian -- the first arrival of modern humans into Europe back to Neanderthals and probably further back to the time of Homo erectus. Given the richness of finds and the depth of the stratigraphic sequence, she will be excavating and researching The Sopena Archaeological Project for decades to come. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: My dog and good waterproof boots

Heroes: Captain Ahab in Moby Dick

"From Ghandi, 'The means may be likened to a seed, and the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree.'" — Katy Payne

Acoustic Biologist

Born: 1937-01-01

Hometown: Ithaca, NY

Education: BA with honors, Music

Achievements

Discoveries: The infrasonic communication of elephants and the changing songs of humpback whales

Expeditions: Argentina, Revillagigedos Islands, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic

Biography

 Katy Payne is a Research Associate in the Bioacoustics Research Program of Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology. She started her studies of animal communication with a fifteen-year study of the constantly changing songs of humpback whales -- a fascinating example of cultural evolution. Then in 1984, Payne and two associates discovered that elephants make infrasonic calls that lie below the range of human hearing and travel exceptionally well. Since then, she and a shifting array of associates have focused on long-distance communication in African elephants in Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Their studies show that elephants' powerful low-frequency calls function in mate attraction and probably in family coordination over distances whose outer limits vary between four and ten kilometers and are highly dependent on atmospheric conditions. In 1999, Payne started a conservation-oriented initiative called the Elephant Listening Project (ELP), whose purpose is to develop an acoustic monitoring program for forest elephants. Because of the density of trees in their equatorial rainforest habitats, most forest elephant populations cannot be censused visually. Forest elephants belong to a separate species, Loxodonta cyclotis, which is doubly endangered by forest destruction and by current political trends. In two intensive field seasons focused on a unique population that predictably visits a forest clearing in the Central African Republic, the ELP team used video recordings and an acoustic array to document the extent to which calling behavior reflects the elephants' numbers and circumstances. The results of this effort are now nearly ready to be put to use in the service of conservation because of the simultaneous development of new hardware and software for automatic detection and analysis of large sets of animal sounds.

Fun Facts

""As thy days, so shall thy strength be," (Deuteronomy 33:25)" — Jane Goodall

Scientist, environmentalist and conservation education promoter/activist

Born: 1934-01-01

Hometown: Bournemouth, UK

Education: PhD in Ethology

Achievements

Discoveries: That chimpanzees make and use tools. This discovery redefined the relationship between humans and non-humans. Dr. Goodall has radically changed the field of primatology both in terms of how chimps are studied and by observing how similar to human beings they are.

Expeditions: Olduvai Gorge, Bombe National Park, Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees; Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro crater to study hyenas and wild dogs.

Biography

Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment and gaining their confidence. Her observations and discoveries are intemationally heralded. Her research and writing have made, and are making, revolutionary inroads into scientific thinking regarding the evolution of humans. Dr. Goodall received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965. She has been the Scientific Director of the Gombe Stream Research Center since 1967. In 1984, Jane Goodall received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for "helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet." Her other awards and international recognitions fill pages. Her scientific articles have appeared in many issues of National Geographic, as well as multiple additional internationally known scientific journals. Dr. Goodall has also written two books, "Wild Chimpanzees" and "In The Shadow of Man." She pleads to thousands of people throughout the world on behalf of her career-long sponsor, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. Jane Goodall attributes her dedication and insight to her work and her mission in life to her mother, internationally known author Vanne Goodall. In 1985, Jane Goodall's twenty-five years of anthropological and conservation research was published, helping us all to better understand the relationship between all creatures. She has now devoted over thirty years to her mission. Dr. Goodall has expanded her global outreach with the founding of the Jane Goodall Institute based in Ridgefield, CT. She now teaches and encourages young people to appreciate the conversation of chimpanzees and all creatures great and small.

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Paper, pencil and binoculars

Heroes: Prof. Muhammad Yunus, inventor of the conept of microcredit; Dr. Rick Asselta, Wheelchair athlete, cancer survivor and coordinator of JGI's Roots & Shoots university programs; Dr. Fred Mednick, Founder of Teachers Without Borders; and Mr. Percy Schmeiser, Canadian farmer and farmers' rights activist.