Jane Goodall

Jane arrives to Gombe

1960

Jane Goodall and her mother Vanne arrives to shores of Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in western Tanzania.

Jane Discovers that chimpanzees eat meat

1960

Jane observed a group of chimpanzees eating bush pig. before this discovery, chimpanzees had been assumed to be vegetarian. Jane also observed how the chimpanzees hunt, a group of chimpanzees attacked, killed, and ate a red colobus monkey that had climbed high into a tree.

Jane discover that chimpanzees make and use tools

1960

Jane observed two chimpanzees, David Greybeard and Goliath making tools to catch termites from their mounds, a discovery that science to reconsider its definition of homo sapiens: “Man the Toolmaker.”

Jane Goodall institute

1977

Jane Goodall creates an organization to continue her research on the chimpanzees, to expand the efforts of protecting the chimpanzees and environmental education.

Jane becomes an activist

1986

Dr. Jane Goodall appears to the first ‘Understanding Chimpanzees’ conference in Chicago. This changes her focus from observation and research, to a broader holistic animal-human conservation approach.

Roots and stoots

1991

Jane is working with a group of kids in Tanzania to think of a way the kids can do something to make the world better. Roots & Shoots started to place the power and resources for creating practical solutions to big challenges in the hands of young people.