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Jane’s Animal Friends

April 01, 2026 — Animals help me survive my days of travel. As I go place to place around the world, I take note and remember well those animals I’ve gotten to meet along the way. Here are a few. A highlight of my visit to Kelowna in Canada was my meeting with Tundra, an 11 year old wolf […]

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Stephen Hawking Was an Indomitable Human Spirit

April 01, 2026 — One of my five reasons for hope is “the indomitable human spirit”. No one exemplifies this more than Stephen Hawking. He was diagnosed with the slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, when he was 21 years old, and told he had only two years to live. At first he […]

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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Thoughts on the Death of Esmond Bradley Martin

April 01, 2026 — I have known Esmond Bradley Martin for many years.  His murder is a real shock.  Esmond’s untiring commitment to fighting the illegal trade in ivory was unrivaled. The conservation community has lost a remarkable ally. His persistence and courage were boundless, and it is certain that his work resulted in the arrest of many illegal […]

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Dr. Jane Goodall’s New Year Message for 2018

April 01, 2026 — Let me now share with you the New Year message that I wrote very early on the last morning of 2017. It summarizes what I am feeling as we enter 2018. On December 23, I finally returned home (to The Birches, the house where I grew up in Bournemouth, UK, where my sister lives with […]

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Dr. Goodall’s Words of Wisdom and Hope 2017

April 01, 2026 — In times of gladness and times of sadness, we often look to the words of the wise for guidance, clarity and invigoration. It is through the written and spoken language of great thinkers and movers that we have been brought to new elevations of thought and movement. Dr. Goodall, regarded as one of the most […]

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Sad loss of Little Mama, One of the Oldest Chimps

April 01, 2026 — On the sad loss of Little Mama, one of the oldest chimpanzees in the world. I am really saddened to hear that Little Mama is no longer with us. She was one of the very first chimpanzees I met in America when I was invited to visit Lion Country Safaris sometime in the 1960s. Immediately […]

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Letter from Dr. Jane Goodall To Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

April 01, 2026 — November 14, 2017 It seems that each day brings ever more dire news about what we humans are doing to harm our planet, the animals that share it with us and, by doing so, harming ourselves also. You have an important opportunity to make a difference both now, and for future generations, by voting to […]

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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Message for Peace

April 01, 2026 — First of all, we must acknowledge that the world, at present, is not a peaceful place. It seems that all around the globe there is armed conflict, modern day slavery, domestic violence, terrorism, racism, sexism, and hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking safety from wars or climate change or poverty. There is even a renewed […]

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Jane Goodall’s Prayer for All of the Creatures on Earth

April 01, 2026 — I have spent many years learning about chimpanzees and been amazed at the many similarities between them and us (biologically we differ in the composition of our DNA by only just over one percent). But in one way there is a profound difference because, although chimpanzees are remarkably intelligent, we can hardly compare even the […]

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Wayne Lotter: Remembering a Wildlife Hero & Friend

April 01, 2026 — I was profoundly shocked when I heard that Wayne Lotter, co-founder of PAMS Foundation, and known for his courageous fight against poaching of wildlife, had been shot and killed earlier this week in the Masaki district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Wayne was a hero of mine, a hero to many, someone who devoted his life to protecting Africa’s […]

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