Goodall, Jane

Goodall, Jane
Jane Goodall is the world’s foremost expert in chimpanzees. Born April 3, 1934, she spent 45 years studying wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. In addition to being honored as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2002.

She has received many awards including the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of Tanzania, the Kyoto Prize, and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

She was also the founder of the Alligator Society at age eleven, among the criteria for qualification was: "You have to be able to recognize 10 birds, 10 dogs, 10 trees and 5 butterflies OR moths"