I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

1991 Visions of Caliban (co-authored with Dale Peterson Ph. R. Awards
1980: Order of the Golden Ark World Wildlife Award for Conservation
1984: J.

She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934) is a British primatologist ethologist anthropologist and UN Messenger of Peace.