Jane Goodall's friend remembers animal advocate
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Invasive species such as cats, emerald ash borers, pigs, fire ants and hemlock woolly adelgids are causing changes to National Parks. Rangers say the changes are causing problems to ecosystems, leading to trees being wiped out and the spread of dangerous diseases.
The death of Dr. Jane Goodall has prompted tributes from around the world, including messages from Disney CEO Bob Iger and former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde, who led the creation of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Beyond primatology, Goodall’s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says Mayor. In 1961, Goodall was one of the few students accepted into a PhD at Cambridge without an undergraduate degree. She completed her PhD in 1965.
"'Never lose hope. If you really want to do something, go ahead and do it,’" her granddaughter remembers Goodall saying.
Beyond primatology, Goodall’s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says Mayor. In 1961, Goodall was one of the few students accepted into a PhD at Cambridge without an undergraduate degree. She completed her PhD in 1965.
WITH just a tent, binoculars and a case of tinned baked beans, Jane Goodall set up camp in Africa to study chimpanzees – and went on to revolutionise the way we view primates. It was 1960 and with
The pioneering British primatologist died on Wednesday at the age of 91 while on a speaking tour in the United States.