![]() ![]() “But, you know, if you work with a company that’s really putting a lot of money into alternative energy and posing the least harm to the environment, then how hypocritical to use their products, pay them money, but not let them pay any money to you. And if I say I refuse to take money from a company that – at that time Conoco was way, way, way, greener than any other oil company, which is why in the end they let DuPont buy them because they couldn’t survive,” Dr. And I thought: I fly out on planes, I drive around in cars, I use electricity. ![]() “I started thinking about it very carefully when Conoco wanted to help. She was told it would "contaminate her image," but she didn't let that affect her decision. Goodall explains why she made the controversial decision to work with the oil company, Conoco, in the late '80s to get a sanctuary built for chimpanzees in the Republic of the Congo. We will become extinct if the globe continues heating up." Jane on Working With the ‘Bad Guys’ “What I’m doing now is my job, trying to wake people up to the fact that if we go on putting economic development over protecting the environment, that’s destroying humans’ future. But it won’t be a longer one, because I know that’s not my job anymore,” Dr. "I’ve been going back twice a year for short visits (to Tanzania) and I will resume doing that. Goodall no longer spends her time studying chimps in the wild, as she says her job now is to help others see the importance of environmental and wildlife conservation. It was just something that happened.”įocusing on her advocacy work over the past four decades, Dr. by then, and I was, you know, thinking I could go to Gombe and study the chimps forever. "So I went to that conference and had my Ph.D. Everywhere in Africa where people were, the forests were going, the chimp numbers were decreasing, and the bushmeat situation was opening up, and foreign logging companies were destroying forests and building roads and mining for gas, oil, and minerals, and with human populations growing, it was a grim picture." Photo Credit: National Geographic Creative/Hugo van Lawick. "But we had a session on conservation that was an absolute shock. And at that meeting, it was mostly to talk about chimp behavior and how it differed from one environment to another," Dr. "When I began it was just me out there, but by '86, there were six other field sites. ![]() Her shift from chimpanzee research to wider conservation efforts came later, following a conference she helped put together at the Academy of Sciences in Chicago in 1986. Goodall is largely known for her studies on chimpanzees in the wild – specifically her research on chimpanzees' ability to create and use tools – which she began in 1960 at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Jane Goodall: From Scientist to Conservationistĭr. ![]()
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