2023-12-16 08:00:00
PORTRAIT- Ethologist and anthropologist, she revolutionized our vision of chimpanzees in the 1960s. Since then, the scientist has continued to fight to impose the defense of the environment in the upper echelons of this world, and to educate new generations who will take over.
The world has changed a lot since Jane Goodall first set foot in July 1960 on the soil of what would become Tanzania four years later, after the union of Zanzibar and Tanganyika. She is 26 years old and begins a program in Gombe to study chimpanzees under the leadership of the eminent paleontologist Louis Leakey, whom she met earlier during a trip to Kenya.
The British authorities initially refused to let such a young national leave alone for so long. So his mother accompanies him. In 1963, when Goodall published his very first 38-page article in the American magazine National Geographic lThe discoveries that she reports at the end of several months of research on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, opposite the current Democratic Republic of Congo, will radically change the way in which great apes are perceived.
“She was not satisfied, like many others, with studying chimpanzees in the restricted environment of a laboratory or…
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