My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

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.