Primatologist Jane Goodall’s observations of chimpanzee communities changed the way we see animals, our relationship with them, and our own humanity. Her decades-long work in wildlife conservation inspired countless people all around the world. On 1 October, we lost this gentle and curious soul. In this 2007 interview with Andrew Denton on his talk show ‘Enough Rope’, Goodall discusses how Jubilee, her childhood toy chimpanzee, inspired her lifelong love of animals; her early field adventures in

You may recognize this extraordinary moment, when a chimpanzee named Wounda embraced Dr. Jane Goodall. 💚 What the world saw was a brief exchange of trust and gratitude. What came before it was years of care, compassion, and recovery. When Wounda arrived at the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of the Congo, she was gravely ill. She was so weak her name in Lingala means “close to dying.” Like so many orphaned chimpanzees, she was rescued after