When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

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.