ABOUT THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE
FOUNDED IN 1977, THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE CONTINUES DR. GOODALL’S PIONEERING RESEARCH ON CHIMPANZEE BEHAVIOR—RESEARCH THAT TRANSFORMED SCIENTIFIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS. TODAY, IT IS A GLOBAL LEADER IN THE EFFORT TO PROTECT CHIMPANZEES AND THEIR HABITATS. IT ALSO IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED FOR ESTABLISHING INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY-CENTERED CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN AFRICA, AND JANE GOODALL’S ROOTS & SHOOTS GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANITARIAN YOUTH PROGRAM. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.JANEGOODALL.ORG AND WWW.ROOTSANDSHOOTS.ORG.
Today the Gombe Stream Research Centre is run by a dedicated field staff that includes many native Tanzanians and hosts a regular stream of visiting researchers. Here Jane is photographed in Gombe with several members of her team (left to right): Matendo Msafiri, sample collector, health monitoring; Dr. Anthony Collins, the director of baboon research; Sufi Hamisi, a field assistant for baboon research; Gabo Paulo, head field assistant for chimpanzee research; Issa Salala, the vice-head field assistant for chimpanzee research; Jumanne Kikwale, the manager of the Gombe Stream Research Centre; Dr. Shadrack Kamenya, the director of conservation science at JGI-Tanzania; and Dr. Iddi Lipende, a veterinarian for the health-monitoring program, GSRC.
Offices Worldwide
Something like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, Dr. Goodall sows seeds of change as she travels the world. Many of the people Jane inspires during her talks and lectures go on to offer their time and energy to Jane’s efforts and become integral members of the global Jane Goodall Institute family. There are more than twenty-five JGIs around the world, all committed to supporting Jane’s global activities, especially the growth of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program. Many local offices take on special missions as well. JGI-Italy, for example, has supported the Sanganigwa Children’s Home, an orphanage in Kigoma (near Gombe), for decades; while JGI-Uganda does many school-based environmental-education activities. See below for a complete listing of JGIs around the world. Questions regarding any of the JGI offices without its own website may be directed to the United States office.
JGI-AUSTRALIA
www.janegoodall.org.au
JGI-AUSTRIA
www.janegoodall.at
JGI-BELGIUM
www.janegoodall.be
JGI-CANADA
www.janegoodall.ca
JGI-CHINA:
Roots & Shoots Beijing
www.jgichina.org
Roots & Shoots Chengdu
http://www.cdgyy.org
Roots & Shoots Shanghai
www.jgi-shanghai.org
JGI-REPUBLIC OF CONGO
JGI-FRANCE
www.janegoodall.fr
JGI-GABON
www.janegoodall.fr
JGI-GERMANY
JGI-HONG KONG
www.janegoodall.org.hk
JGI-HUNGARY
www.janegoodall.hu
JGI-ITALY
www.janegoodall-italia.org
JGI-JAPAN
www.jgi-japan.org
JGI-KENYA
ROOTS & SHOOTS LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
web.mac.com/rickasselta/iweb/site/welcome.html
JGI-NETHERLANDS
www.janegoodall.nl
JGI-SINGAPORE
www.janegoodall.org.sg
JGI-SOUTH AFRICA
www.janegoodall.co.za
www.rootsandshoots.org.za
JGI-SPAIN
www.janegoodall.es
JGI-SWEDEN
www.swedenchimp.se/jgi-sweden.html
JGI-SWITZERLAND
www.janegoodall.ch
JGI-TAIWAN
www.goodall.org.tw
JGI-TANZANIA
JGI-UGANDA
www.jgiuganda.org
JGI-UNITED KINGDOM
www.janegoodall.org.uk
JGI-USA
www.janegoodall.org
www.rootsandshoots.org
Milestones (1960–2010)
JULY 14, 1960
Jane Goodall begins her study in Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, accompanied by her mother, Vanne.
OCTOBER 30, 1960
Chimpanzees are first seen eating meat.
NOVEMBER 1960
Jane observes David Greybeard using a grass stem to fish for termites. It is the first scientific documentation of chimpanzee tool use.
JANUARY 31, 1961
Jane first observes the chimpanzees performing a “rain dance.”
MARCH 13, 1961
Jane receives a grant of $1,400 from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. It is the first of twenty-seven grants that she will receive from NGS.
SUMMER 1961
David Greybeard is the first chimp to explore Jane’s camp.
1962
Jane enters the University of Cambridge as a Ph.D. candidate.
1962 & 1964
Jane receives the Franklin Burr Award from the National Geographic Society for her contribution to science.
AUGUST 1963
Jane’s first article, “My Life Among Wild Chimpanzees,” is published in National Geographic magazine.
MARCH 28, 1964
Jane Goodall marries wildlife filmmaker and photographer Hugo van Lawick.
MARCH 1964
Flo gives birth to Flint, whose upbringing provided a chance to observe chimpanzee parenting from its beginning.
SPRING 1964
Mike gains dominance in the community, and defeats Goliath, by charging with noisy kerosene cans and intimidating the other chimps.
SUMMER 1964
Evered is the first chimp seen using chewed leaves as a sponge to soak up water. This is another tool that is frequently used by the chimpanzees in Gombe.
SUMMER 1964
Chimpanzees are first seen using leaves to clean themselves and wipe wounds.
1965
The Gombe Stream Research Centre is founded.
1965
Jane Goodall receives her Ph.D. in ethology, the study of animal behavior, from the University of Cambridge. She is the eighth person at the university to be awarded a Ph.D. without first receiving an undergraduate degree.
DECEMBER 1965
Jane’s second article, “New Discoveries Among Africa’s Chimpanzees,” with photographs by Hugo van Lawick, appears in National Geographic magazine.
DECEMBER 1965
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, an hour-long program produced by the National Geographic Society, appears on national television in the United States.
1966
Fifteen Kasekela chimps are afflicted with polio. In the end, six die from the disease and the survivors have afflictions that leave them disabled for the rest of their lives.
1966
Study on Gombe’s baboons begins.
1967
The Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve becomes Gombe National Park.
MARCH 4, 1967
Jane Goodall’s son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, nicknamed Grub, is born.
1968
Hilali Matama, Jane’s first official field assistant, is hired at the Gombe Stream Research Centre.
1968
David Greybeard dies.
1970
Jane’s first children’s book, Grub, the Bush Baby, is published.
1971
Humphrey defeats Mike and takes over as the alpha male of the Kasekela group.
1971
Jane’s book In the Shadow of Man is published. It became an instant bestseller.
MAY 1971
Fifi, daughter of Flo, gives birth to Freud, the first of seven offspring she raised to adulthood.
1972
Humphrey’s twenty-month reign as alpha male is ended by Figan.
AUGUST 22, 1972
Flo, the fearless and loving mother, dies of old age.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1972
Flint, Flo’s eight-year-old offspring, becomes depressed and dies soon after the death of his mother.
EARLY 1974
The start of the “four-year war” at Gombe, the first record of long-term “warfare” among chimpanzees. The original Kasekela group was divided and members of the new Kahama group were systematically annihilated.
1975
Jane marries her second husband, the Hon. Derek Bryceson, a member of Tanzanian parliament and the director of Tanzanian national parks.
1977
The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation is established in San Francisco by Jane Goodall, Ranieri di San Faustino, and Genevieve di San Faustino.
OCTOBER 21, 1977
Melissa gives birth to twins Gyre and Gimble. Only Gimble survives.
MAY 1979
Jane reports on new discoveries in her article “Life and Death at Gombe,” for National Geographic.
1980
Jane receives the Order of the Golden Ark, the World Wildlife award for conservation, presented to her by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
1982
After a three-year struggle with Figan, Goblin finally gains control as alpha male.
FEBRUARY 10, 1982
Passion dies after falling ill. Passion, along with her daughter Pom, had killed between five and ten newborn chimpanzees for food.
JUNE 1982
Gremlin, daughter of Melissa, gives birth to Getty, only the second birth to be observed in twenty-two years of research.
1984
Jane’s second National Geographic special, Among the Wild Chimpanzees, airs on national television.
SPRING 1984
The ChimpanZoo project is conceived with the goals of recording behavior of captive chimpanzees and promoting stimulating environments for chimpanzees and other primates.
OCTOBER 1986
Melissa, mother of Goblin, Gremlin, and Gimble, dies.
1986
Jane publishes The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior, a comprehensive scholarly analysis of chimpanzee behavior.
NOVEMBER 1986
At a scientific conference in Chicago, Jane is shocked to learn of the widespread habitat destruction across Africa. She leaves the conference knowing she must leave Gombe behind and work to save the chimpanzees.
MARCH 1987
An outbreak of pneumonia afflicts the chimpanzees, killing nine. It is the worst epidemic since the polio outbreak in 1966.
1987
After three-year-old Mel’s mother died of pneumonia, he was “adopted” by an adolescent male, Spindle—the first time that a non-related chimp is observed to adopt an orphaned youngster.
MAY 25, 1988
JGI-UK is established in London.
SPRING 1990
Wilkie defeats Goblin, whose reign lasted nine years, to become alpha male at Gombe.
JULY 1990
JGI-Tanzania is launched in conjunction with Jane Goodall’s Gombe 30 celebration, observing thirty years since she first began her research in Tanzania.
1990
Chimps, So Like Us, an HBO documentary, is produced. The film is nominated for an Academy Award.
1990
Through a Window, Jane’s fifth book, is published.
1990
Jane receives the Kyoto Prize in basic science, the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
FEBRUARY 1991
Jane and sixteen Tanzanian students found Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
1992
The Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center opens. It was initially funded by Conoco Inc.
1993
Freud, eldest son of Fifi, defeats Wilkie to become alpha male of Gombe’s Kasekela group.
FEBRUARY 14, 1993
Videographer Bill Wallauer records the first video footage of a chimpanzee birth in the wild: Gremlin giving birth to her daughter Gaia.
1994
After a Mitumba chimp joined the Kasekela group, Flossi, daughter of Fifi, suddenly begins using the Mitumba technique of catching carpenter ants with twigs. It is the first observation of technology transfer from one community of chimpanzees to another.
1994
JGI founds TACARE.
1995
Jane receives the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research. The award is presented to her by Vice President Al Gore.
FEBRUARY 1995
Rafiki, in Gombe’s Mitumba community, gives birth to twins, whom Jane names Roots and Shoots. They are only the second set of twins observed at Gombe.
AUGUST 1995
The Jane Goodall Institute’s Center for Primate Studies is founded at the University of Minnesota.
1996
Pneumonia strikes the Mitumba group, killing about one-third of the population. Rafiki and her young twins, Roots and Shoots, are three of the victims.
1996
Jane receives the Tanzanian Kilimanjaro Medal, presented by President Mwinyi, for her contributions to wildlife conservation.
SUMMER 1997
Mange, a skin disease, infiltrates the Kasekela community, hitting hardest on the nursing females and their infants. Fifi loses her infant son, Fred. Also affected are Freud, Prof, Goblin, and Beethoven.
OCTOBER 2, 1997
Frodo overthrows his ailing brother Freud as alpha male of the Kasekela group.
JULY 1998
Gremlin gives birth to Gombe’s newest set of twins, Golden and Glitta. Fifi gives birth to her third daughter, Flirt.
1999
Jane’s eighth book, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, is published and instantly becomes a New York Times bestseller.
2001
Jane is awarded the Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence.
APRIL 16, 2002
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appoints Jane to serve as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reappoints Jane in June 2007.
2003
Jane receives the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. She also receives the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science that same year.
2003
JGI begins work with Discovery Communications’ Animal Planet and produces five television movies over the course of six years.
FEBRUARY 20, 2004
Jane is made a Dame of the British Empire.
2004
Fifi disappears with daughter Furaha, born in 2002, and is assumed dead.
2004
Goblin dies after an illness.
2006
Jane receives the French Legion of Honor, presented by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. She also receives the UNESCO Gold Medal that same year.
2009
Jane publishes Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
2010
The film Jane’s Journey opens.
2010
The Jane Goodall Institute commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Jane’s arrival at Gombe with a worldwide celebration.