Jane Goodall

By GBPacker03

  • Jane Arrives In Gombe

    Jane arrives, with her mother (Vanne), on the shores of the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve.

  • Jane Discovers Chimpanzees Eat Meat

    Jane learned that chimpanzees were not herbivores, but omnivores. They eat large mammals, for example, the chimps see observed hunted and ate a red colobus monkey.

  • Jane Discovers Chimpanzees Make And Use Tools

    Jane discovers that the chimpanzees are able to use tools they make for different uses. An example would be extracting termites from their mounds for food, which they used grass and twigs (twisted together) to do.

  • The Beginning Of The Four Year War

    Like humans, Jane discovers that the chimps start to wage war on each other between two different groups. These conflicts last on for about four years, hence the name.

  • Cannibalism Is First Observed

    Jane observes a mother and daughter chimpanzee stealing and killing baby chimpanzees in their community for food, which shows the idea of cannibalism.

  • The Jane Goodall Institute Is Founded

    Jane creates an Institute to continue her research on chimpanzees as well as expand on the idea of how chimpanzees are endangered. To help this, the Institue as well expands efforts on protection, conservation, and environmental education.

  • Jane Becomes An Activist

    Jane attends the first conference for 'Understanding Chimpanzees' in Chicago. This takes her away from her observations and research and takes her to an animal-human conservationist approach.

  • Roots And Shoots Founded

    Students work with Jane to discuss how the youth can make our world better. Roots and Shoots is started to place resources for making solutions to challenges in the works of young people.

  • Jane Goodall Institute Tchimpounga Sanctuary Founded

    The Institue creates a sanctuary for chimpanzees who have been orphaned because of the illegal acts of commercial bushmeat and pet trades (Now cares for more than 150 chimpanzees).

  • Jane Starts Community-Conservation Work In Western Tanzania

    Known as the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education (TACARE), this program was made as a project to help notice poverty and support livelihoods in villages around the area, while noticing the loss of natural resources.

  • JGI Begins Leveraging Science Through Conservation Work

    JGI's conservation program makes is possible to generate information to help conservation decision making, as well as inform the authority of chimpanzee populations. It also helps create human land uses that promote the protection of chimpanzees as well as their habitats.

  • Jane Is Named A UN Messenger Of Peace

    Bestowed upon Jane is the highest honor of the United Nations for global citizens. This is for her work to make a more peaceful world through her Roots and Shoots program.

  • JGI Forms First Formal Conservation Action Plan

    This plan intends to bring local communities together to protect the ecosystem of which the chimpanzees live in and remake destroyed habitats while also improving the lives of people in the area.