As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

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.