Once Goodall realized, in the 1980s, that deforestation was rapidly putting the habitat and lives of the chimpanzees of Gombe at risk, addressing that issue became her principal mission, and she left Tanzania to travel the world with the goal of protecting them. It was Leakey’s insight that younger women who had not been indoctrinated in the male-dominated norms of anthropology would make the best possible observers, and Goodall became one of the great trinity of primatology research, along with Biruté Galdikas, who studied orangutans and is now a professor in Canada, and Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda until she was murdered by poachers in 1985. She was a dame of the British Empire, a U.N. Messenger of Peace and the author of many books, including the now-classic “In the Shadow of Man” and “My Life With the Chimpanzees.”
Author: Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published at: 2025-10-01 21:05:52
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