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English zoologist (born 1934)

For the Australian author, see Jane R. Goodall.

Dame Jane Morris GoodallDBE (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934),^[3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist.^[4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.

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Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.^[5]

She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project.^[6] In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

Goodall is an honorary member of the World Future Council.

Early life

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hamps