![]() For forests provide clean air, clean water, and help to prevent erosion and control temperature and rainfall.īut should we only be concerned to save the environment and the amazing species of plants, trees and animals that make up the complex web of life only because we humans depend on mother nature for our own survival? Should we not wish to save it for its own sake? We have been so arrogant. The villagers realize that saving the environment is not only to benefit animals but also to safeguard their own future. This program now includes 104 villages throughout the chimpanzees’ range in Tanzania, and is growing in six other countries around chimpanzee habitat. ![]() In this way, we could improve the lives of people whilst helping wildlife. So the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) launched Tacare (Ta(ke)care), our holistic method of community-based conservation. And it was then that it hit me – we cannot save the chimpanzees and their forests unless we help the people find ways of living that do not involve destroying their environment. In 1990 I flew over the tiny Gombe national park and, looking down, I realized that the village communities around Gombe were struggling to survive, too many people for the land to support, overused infertile farmland, no money for buying food from elsewhere, cutting down the last trees in their desperation to grow more food, or make charcoal as a means of livelihood. We are part of and not separate from the natural world on which we rely for food, water, clothing and air. I agreed, but cried a bit apparently! To those who may feel that animal protection/rights is a trivial or fringe issue when there are so many “human problems” in the world, what would you say to the question, why do animals matter?įirst of all, I want to point out that we humans are animals too. She said I was watching them so intently – she thought perhaps I wondered how they moved without legs! Her support of my love for animals was really important – she did not get angry, but simply said they would die if we did not return them to the garden. My mother came to my room to say goodnight once when I was 1 ½ years old and found my bed full of earth and earthworms. Quite honestly, I was born with a fascination for animals. ![]() What was your “a-ha” moment or moments in forming your thinking that animals are important and worthy of our ethical and moral consideration? Jane Goodall DBE shares her inspiring story about how she became a driving force for positive change for animals around the world. In this exclusive interview, world-renowned animal advocate and Voiceless patron Dr. ![]()
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