Claire was fortunate to attend Dr Jane Goodall’s presentation in Wellington as part of her 80th celebrations.
Dr Jane Goodall started with a series of hoots, highlights of her childhood and of her dreams of working in Africa. Finally after meeting and work with Louis Leakey, Jane started her now famous research of the Chimpanzees of the Gombe, Tanzania. Only 26 when she started her research she has spent a lifetime working with and for these amazing animals.
Now you may wonder what Chimps have to do with diving and the answer is of course nothing – they don’t even like swimming!
Jane’s research has taken her well beyond studying the behavior of her original chimpanzee families and into conservation. She is spreading her message of hope for the future of Earth as she travels 300 days a year and giving similar inspiring messages to 1000’s of people around the world.
Jane Goodall has asked all of us to use our amazing brain’s and our humanity to think about the choices we make each day and make a difference.
Where does our food come from? What is in it? How is it packaged? How do we treat others? How do we treat the animals we share our planet with?
Questions we should all be asking ourselves and making small changes to our lives to make a positive difference for our planet.
THINK GLOBALLY – ACT LOCALLY
Find out more at the Jane Goodall Institute
Don’t forget to help out at our monthly beach and underwater clean up events.
The next one is at Evans Bay at 1pm on the 5th of July.
