After attending the Understanding Chimpanzees conference in Chicago 1986, Goodall was shocked to learn of the reasons behind Chimps’ dwindling population. This has encouraged her to speak up about the issues centering the conservation of Chimpanzees. Today, Goodall is a global force for compassion and a UN Messenger of Peace. From living virtually alone in the forest, studying and observing Chimpanzees during her days in Gombe, she is now a committed activist who is on the road 300 days a year in hopes of educating the public on the importance of conservation.
“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.” – Jane Goodall | 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p.6
Involvement as an Activist
- Former president of Advocates for Animals, an organisation that campaigns against the use of animals in medical research, zoos, farming and sport
- Patron of AUS animal protection group Voiceless, the animal protection institute
- Endorsed the Forests New Declaration
- Patron of population concern charity Population Matters
- Ambassador for Disneynature
- Patron of Australian animal protection institute, Voiceless (2011)
- Challenger for the Engage in Conservation Challenge with the DO School (2012)
- Wrote to Air France executives to critic the airline’s continued transport of monkeys to laboratories (2013)
- Wrote to the National Institutes of Health to critic the conducting of maternal deprivation experiments on baby monkeys in NIH laboratories (2014)
- Signed a letter to the Members of Parliament in 2015 in opposition of Conservative prime minister David Cameron’s plan to amend the Fox Hunting Act 2004 (2015)