Jane Goodall

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hampstead, London,"Morris-Goodall, Valerie J" in Register of Births for Hampstead Registration District, volume 1a (1934), p. 748. to businessman {{ill|Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall|de|Mortimer Morris-Goodall}} (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000),England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007. a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire,1911 England Census who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.

The family later moved to Bournemouth, and Goodall attended Uplands School, an independent school in nearby Poole.

As a child, Goodall's father gave her a stuffed toy chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for it sparked her early love of animals, commenting, "My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares." Jubilee still sits on Goodall's dresser in London.{{cite book |last=Goodall |first=Jane |author2=Phillip Berman |title=Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey |publisher=Warner Books |year=2000 |location=New York |page=4 |isbn=978-0-446-67613-7}}

Goodall had always been drawn to animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the Kenya highlands in 1957. From there, she obtained work as a secretary, and acting on her friend's advice, she telephoned Louis Leakey,{{cite web|title= Jane Goodall Biography and Interview |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url= https://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/#interview}} the Kenyan archaeologist and palaeontologist, with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals. Leakey, believing that the study of existing great apes could provide indications of the behaviour of early hominids,{{Cite AV media |date=June 2007 |title=Jane Goodall helps humans and animals live together |url=http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_at_tedglobal_07.html |publisher=TED |location=Arusha, Tanzania |access-date=28 July 2010}} was looking for a chimpanzee researcher, though he kept the idea to himself. Instead, he proposed that Goodall work for him as a secretary. After obtaining approval from his co-researcher and wife, British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, Louis sent Goodall to Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania), where he laid out his plans.

In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London to study primate behaviour with Osman Hill and primate anatomy with John Napier.{{Cite book |last=Morell |first=Virginia |year=1995 |title=Ancestral Passions: the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-684-80192-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ancestralpassion00more/page/242 242] |url=https://archive.org/details/ancestralpassion00more/page/242}} Leakey raised funds, and on 14 July 1960, Goodall went to Gombe Stream National Park, becoming the first of what would come to be called The Trimates.{{Cite book |last1=Goodall |first1=Jane |last2=Peterson |first2=Dale |title=Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kdr0TP7ou0wC&pg=PA1 |access-date=13 July 2011 |date=25 September 2002 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-618-25734-8 |page=1}} She was accompanied by her mother, whose presence was necessary to satisfy the requirements of David Anstey, chief warden, who was concerned for their safety.{{Cite web |title=Early Days |url=http://www.janegoodall.org/janes-story |access-date=28 July 2010 |publisher=Jane Goodall Institute |year=2010}} Goodall credits her mother with encouraging her to pursue a career in primatology, a male-dominated field at the time. Goodall has said that women were not accepted in the field when she started her research in the late 1950s.Morgen, B. (Director). (2017). Jane [Motion Picture]. United States: National Geographic Studios {{as of|2019}}, the field of primatology is made up almost evenly of men and women, in part thanks to the trailblazing of Goodall and her encouragement of young women to join the field.CBC/Radio Canada, [https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/louis-leakey-selected-three-women-to-study-the-great-apes-they-inspire-youn She Walks with Apes], accessed 16 January 2022

Leakey arranged funding, and in 1962 he sent Goodall, who had no degree, to the University of Cambridge.{{cite journal |last1=Richards |first1=Peter |title=Profile: Mirror of Humankind |journal=Cambridge Alumni Magazine |date=2000 |issue=44 |pages=10–13 |quote=When I came up to Cambridge in 1962, I had no degree of any sort.}} She was the eighth person to be allowed to study for a PhD at Cambridge without first having obtained a bachelor's degree.{{cite journal |last1=Latson |first1=Jennifer |title=How Jane Goodall Made a Scientific Breakthrough Without a College Degree |journal=Time Magazine |date=14 July 2015 |url=https://time.com/3949985/jane-goodall-college-history/ |access-date=27 June 2023 |quote=Goodall (who eventually earned a PhD in ethology at Cambridge University, where she was one of the few to do so without first earning a bachelor’s degree, per PBS)}}{{cite news |last1=Anon |title=Nature: Jane Goodall's Story |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/jane-goodalls-wild-chimpanzees-jane-goodalls-story/1911/ |access-date=27 June 2023 |work=PBS |date=3 March 1996 |quote=Goodall’s discoveries were brought to the public’s attention by a 1965 National Geographic television documentary, which vaulted her to international prominence and quieted her doubters. That same year, England’s Cambridge University awarded Goodall an honorary doctorate; she is one of only a handful of people to earn that distinction without having first completed four years of college.}} She attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in natural sciences by 1964. Later that year, she enrolled at the newly established Darwin College, Cambridge, to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in ethology.{{cite web |url=https://newn.cam.ac.uk/about/people/honorary-fellows |title=Newnham College Honorary Fellows – Jane Goodall (2019) |publisher=Newnham College, Cambridge |quote=Dame Jane Goodall DBE (BA Newnham College 1961, Natural Sciences; PhD Darwin College 1964).}}{{Cite book |author=Dale Peterson |title=Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzJIBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA261 |date=11 November 2014 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-52579-2 |page=261}} Her thesis was completed in 1966 under the supervision of Robert Hinde on the Behaviour of free-living chimpanzees,{{Cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Jane |last=Goodall |year=1966 |title=Behaviour of free-living chimpanzees |id={{EThOS |uk.bl.ethos.727585}} |oclc=1063634333 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251039 |website=repository.cam.ac.uk}} detailing her first five years of study at the Gombe Reserve.{{Cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae, Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE |publisher=Jane Goodall Institute |url=http://www.janegoodall.org.hk/downloads/Curriculum%20Vitae.pdf |access-date=28 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005905/http://www.janegoodall.org.hk/downloads/Curriculum%20Vitae.pdf |archive-date=26 April 2012}}

On 19 June 2006, the Open University of Tanzania awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science degree.

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Goodall studied chimpanzee social and family life beginning with the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, in 1960.{{cite web |title=Study Corner – Gombe Timeline |url=http://www.janegoodall.org/study-corner-gombe-timeline |publisher=Jane Goodall Institute |year=2010 |access-date=28 July 2010}} She found that "it isn't only human beings who have personality, who are capable of rational thought [and] emotions like joy and sorrow."{{Cite web |publisher=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/jane-goodalls-wild-chimpanzees/introduction/1908/ |title=Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees |year=1996 |access-date=28 July 2010}} She also observed behaviours such as hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and even tickling, what we consider "human" actions. Goodall insists that these gestures are evidence of "the close, supportive, affectionate bonds that develop between family members and other individuals within a community, which can persist throughout a life span of more than 50 years."

Goodall's research at Gombe Stream challenged two long-standing beliefs of the day: that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians. While observing one chimpanzee feeding at a termite mound, she watched him repeatedly place stalks of grass into termite holes, then remove them from the hole covered with clinging termites, effectively "fishing" for termites.Goodall, Jane. Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey. New York: Warner Books, 1999. The chimpanzees would also take twigs from trees and strip off the leaves to make the twig more effective, a form of object modification that is the rudimentary beginnings of toolmaking. Humans had long distinguished themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom as "Man the Toolmaker". In response to Goodall's revolutionary findings, Louis Leakey wrote, "We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!"{{cite web | url = http://www.janegoodall.org/study-corner-tool-use | work = www.janegoodall.org | title = Tool Use | access-date = 21 September 2009 | archive-date = 8 January 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140108153023/http://www.janegoodall.org/study-corner-tool-use | url-status = dead }}The Jane Goodall Institute: [http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp_central/default.asp "Chimpanzee Central"], 2008.

In contrast to the peaceful and affectionate behaviours she observed, Goodall also found an aggressive side of chimpanzee nature at Gombe Stream. She discovered that chimpanzees will systematically hunt and eat smaller primates such as colobus monkeys. Goodall watched a hunting group isolate a colobus monkey high in a tree and block all possible exits; then one chimpanzee climbed up and captured and killed the colobus. The others then each took parts of the carcass, sharing with other members of the troop in response to begging behaviours. The chimpanzees at Gombe kill and eat as much as one-third of the colobus population in the park each year. This alone was a major scientific find that challenged previous conceptions of chimpanzee diet and behaviour.{{Cite web |title=What chimpanzees do? |url=http://www.chimpanzoo.org/enrichment/Foraging-chimpanzees.pdf |website=www.chimpanzoo.org |last=Tresz |first=Hilda}}

Goodall also observed the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops. Goodall observed dominant females deliberately killing the young of other females in the troop to maintain their dominance, sometimes going as far as cannibalism. She says of this revelation, "During the first ten years of the study I had believed [...] that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings. [...] Then suddenly we found that chimpanzees could be brutal—that they, like us, had a darker side to their nature." She described the 1974–1978 Gombe Chimpanzee War in her 1990 memoir, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Her findings revolutionised contemporary knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour and were further evidence of the social similarities between humans and chimpanzees.{{Cite journal |last=Wilson |first=Michael Lawrence |date=2021 |title=Insights into human evolution from 60 years of research on chimpanzees at Gombe |journal=Evolutionary Human Sciences |language=en |volume=3 |pages=e8 |doi=10.1017/ehs.2021.2 |pmid=33604500 |issn=2513-843X|pmc=7886264 }}

Goodall set herself apart from convention by naming the animals in her studies of primates instead of assigning each a number. Numbering was a nearly universal practice at the time and was thought to be important in avoiding emotional attachment to the subject being studied and thus losing objectivity.{{Cite news |last=Blum |first=Deborah |author-link=Deborah Blum |date=26 November 2006 |title=The Primatologist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/books/Blum.t.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029120123/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/books/Blum.t.html |archive-date=29 October 2018 |access-date=16 October 2020 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=13 November 2017 |title=Jane Goodall |url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/jane-goodall/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819025408/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/jane-goodall/ |archive-date=19 August 2020 |access-date=16 October 2020 |website=National Geographic Society |language=en}} Goodall wrote in 1993: "When, in the early 1960s, I brazenly used such words as 'childhood', 'adolescence', 'motivation', 'excitement', and 'mood' I was much criticised. Even worse was my crime of suggesting that chimpanzees had 'personalities'. I was ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman animals and was thus guilty of that worst of ethological sins—anthropomorphism."{{Cite book |last1=Goodall |first1=Jane |url=http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/goodall01.htm |title=The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity |date=1993 |publisher=Fourth Estate |isbn=978-1-85702-126-4 |editor1-last=Cavalieri |editor1-first=Paola |location=London |page=10}}

Setting herself apart from other researchers also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society. She was the lowest-ranking member of a troop for a period of 22 months.

Among those whom Goodall named during her years in Gombe were:See Kasakela chimpanzee community for a more complete list and details.

• David Greybeard, a grey-chinned male who first warmed up to Goodall;[http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp_central/chimpanzees/gombe/default.asp Gombe National Park], Chimpanzee Central, Janegoodall.org
• Goliath, a friend of David Greybeard, originally the alpha male named for his bold nature;
• Mike, who through his cunning and improvisation displaced Goliath as the alpha male;
• Humphrey, a big, strong, bullysome male;
• Gigi, a large, sterile female who delighted in being the "aunt" of any young chimps or humans;
• Mr. McGregor, a belligerent older male;
• Flo, a motherly, high-ranking female with a bulbous nose and ragged ears, and her children; Figan, Faben, Freud, Fifi, and Flint;[https://web.archive.org/web/20090129072309/http://janegoodall.org/chimp_central/chimpanzees/f_family/flo.asp Flo (approx. 1929–1972)], Chimpanzee Central, Janegoodall.org[https://web.archive.org/web/20090126044252/http://janegoodall.org/chimp_central/chimpanzees/f_family/fifi.asp Fifi (1958–2004)], Chimpanzee Central, Janegoodall.org
• Frodo, Fifi's second-oldest child, an aggressive male who would frequently attack Jane and ultimately forced her to leave the troop when he became alpha male.{{Cite web |title=Frodo, the Alpha Male |author=Fallow, A. |publisher=National Geographic Society |year=2003 |url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature4/online_extra2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228130117/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature4/online_extra2.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 December 2007 |access-date=4 March 2009}}

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In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. With nineteen offices around the world, the JGI is widely recognised for community-centred conservation and development programs in Africa. Its global youth program, Roots & Shoots, began in 1991 when a group of 16 local teenagers met with Goodall on her back porch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. They were eager to discuss a range of problems they knew about from first-hand experience that caused them deep concern. The organisation has over 10,000 groups in over 100 countries {{as of|2010|lc=y}}.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rootsandshoots.org/aboutus/history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720235233/http://www.rootsandshoots.org/aboutus/history |archive-date=20 July 2011 |title=Our History |work=Roots & Shoots |publisher=The Jane Goodall Institute |access-date=14 July 2010}}

In 1992, Goodall founded the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the Republic of Congo to care for chimpanzees orphaned due to bush-meat trade. The rehabilitation houses over a hundred chimps over its three islands.Westoll, Andrew. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/in-an-african-sanctuary-help-and-hope-for-orphaned-chimps/article4200620/ "In an African sanctuary, help and hope for orphaned chimps"] The Globe And Mail

In 1994, Goodall founded the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education (TACARE or "Take Care") pilot project to protect chimpanzees' habitat from deforestation by reforesting hills around Gombe while simultaneously educating neighbouring communities on sustainability and agriculture training. The TACARE project also supports young girls by offering them access to reproductive health education and through scholarships to finance their college tuition.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gpsworld.com/esri-jane-goodall-institute-partner-to-protect-ecosystems/ |title=Esri, Jane Goodall Institute partner to protect ecosystems |last=Barwacz |first=Allison|date=10 July 2019 }}

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Owing to an overflow of handwritten notes, photographs, and data piling up at Jane's home in Dar es Salaam in the mid-1990s, the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies was created at the University of Minnesota to house and organise this data. {{as of|2011}} all of the original Jane Goodall archives reside there and have been digitised, analysed, and placed in an online database.{{Cite web |url=http://www.janegoodall.org/chimpanzees-gsrc |title=JGICPS |publisher=The Jane Goodall Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210215503/http://www.janegoodall.org/chimpanzees-gsrc |archive-date=10 February 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=3 February 2011}} On 17 March 2011, Duke University spokesman Karl Bates announced that the archives will move to Duke, with Anne E. Pusey, Duke's chairman of evolutionary anthropology, overseeing the collection. Pusey, who managed the archives in Minnesota and worked with Goodall in Tanzania, had worked at Duke for a year.{{cite news |url=http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/mar/18/wsmet03-goodall-papers-headed-to-duke-ar-872387/ |title=Goodall papers headed to Duke |work=Winston-Salem Journal |date=18 March 2011 |access-date=18 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126232610/http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/mar/18/wsmet03-goodall-papers-headed-to-duke-ar-872387/ |archive-date=26 January 2013 }}

In 2018 and 2020, Goodall partnered with friend and CEO Michael Cammarata on two natural product lines from Schmidt's Naturals and Neptune Wellness Solutions. Five percent of every sale benefited the Jane Goodall Institute.{{Cite web |title=Schmidt's Naturals, Jane Goodall Institute partner on deodorants |url=https://drugstorenews.com/beauty/schmidts-naturals-jane-goodall-institute-partner-deodorants|access-date=27 July 2021 |website=Drug Store News |language=en}}{{Cite web |title='Wonders of Africa': Dr. Jane Goodall Launches Essential Oil Kit—All Sourced From Africa |url=https://okmagazine.com/news/neptune-wellness-solutions-announces-launch-jane-goodall-product/ |access-date=27 July 2021 |website=OK Magazine |date=18 September 2020 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Jane Goodall Co-Develops Natural Product Line With Neptune Wellness & IFF |url=https://www.beautypackaging.com/contents/view_breaking-news/2020-04-21/jane-goodall-co-develops-natural-product-line-with-neptune-wellness-iff/ |access-date=27 July 2021 |website=Beauty Packaging}}

As of 2004, Goodall devotes virtually all of her time to advocacy on behalf of chimpanzees and the environment, travelling nearly 300 days a year.{{Cite news |last=Bender |first=Kristin |date=2 October 2009 |title=Goodall promotes peace, youth empowerment at talk in Berkeley |newspaper=The Oakland Tribune |url=http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_13473075 |url-status=dead |access-date=10 October 2009 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118070957/http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_13473075?source=rss }}{{Cite news |last=Coward |first=Ros |author-link=Rosalind Coward |title=New mission for chimps' champion |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/10/academicexperts.environment |date=10 October 2004 |access-date=12 January 2016}} Goodall is also on the advisory council for the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary outside of Africa, Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida.{{Cite web|last=chimpadmi|title=Staff Category: Advisory Council|url=https://savethechimps.org/staff_categorys/advisory-council |access-date=17 October 2021 |website=Save the Chimps |language=en-US}}

Jane Goodall is an advisory board member for The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).

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Goodall credits the 1986 Understanding Chimpanzees conference, hosted by the Chicago Academy of Sciences, with shifting her focus from observation of chimpanzees to a broader and more intense concern with animal-human conservation.{{Cite news |title=Goodall Recalls '86 Chicago Lesson |work=Chicago Tribune |date=19 August 2016 |author=Johnson, Steve |at=Section 1; p. 3}} She is the former president of Advocates for Animals,{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Tim |title=Is Jane Goodall about to lose her post? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2011241/Is-Jane-Goodall-about-to-lose-her-post.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2011241/Is-Jane-Goodall-about-to-lose-her-post.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Telegraph |date=23 May 2008 |access-date=3 May 2020}}{{cbignore}} an organisation based in Edinburgh, Scotland, that campaigns against the use of animals in medical research, zoos, farming and sport.{{Cite web |date=3 April 2023 |title=Leading anthropologist and activist Jane Goodall received a Greek gift for her 89th birthday |url=https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/04/03/jane-goodall-greek-gift-birthday/ |access-date=4 June 2024 |website=Greek City Times}}{{Cite web |title=OneKind.Scot campaigns |url=https://www.onekind.scot/campaigns/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325083824/http://onekind.scot/campaigns |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 March 2017 |website=OneKind |access-date=3 May 2020 }}

She is a vegetarian and advocates the diet for ethical, environmental, and health reasons. In The Inner World of Farm Animals (2009), Goodall writes that farm animals are "far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent?"Hatkoff, Amy. 2009. The Inner World of Farm Animals, p. 13. Goodall has also said: "Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated with so little respect and kindness just to make more meat."{{Cite book |author-last1=Baur |author-first1=Gene |author-last2=Stone |author-first2=Gene |title=Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day |publisher=Harmony/Rodale |year=2015 |page=10 |isbn=978-1-62336-489-2}} In 2021, Goodall became a vegan and authored a cookbook titled Eat Meat Less.{{cite web|last=Gwinn |first=Alison |title=Jane Goodall Shares Recipes, and a Mission |website=AARP |date=16 March 2021 |url=https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2021/jane-goodall-meatless-recipes.html |access-date=17 June 2022 |quote=A longtime vegetarian and now vegan, Goodall}}

Goodall is an outspoken environmental advocate, speaking on the effects of climate change on endangered species such as chimpanzees. Goodall, alongside her foundation, collaborated with NASA to use satellite imagery from the Landsat series to remedy the effects of deforestation on chimpanzees and local communities in Western Africa by offering the villagers information on how to reduce activity and preserve their environment.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/satellite-data-changed-chimpanzee-conservation-efforts |title=How Satellite Data Changed Chimpanzee Conservation Efforts |last=Hille |first=Karl |date=24 January 2017 |website=NASA |access-date=29 March 2020}} To ensure the safe and ethical treatment of animals during ethological studies, Goodall, alongside Professor Mark Bekoff, founded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2000.Clayton, Philip, and Jim Schaal, editors. "Jane Goodall." Practicing Science, Living Faith: Interviews with Twelve Leading Scientists, by William Phillips, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, pp. 15–40. {{JSTOR|10.7312/clay13576.6}} Accessed 1 April 2020.

In 2008, Goodall gave a lecture entitled "Reason for Hope" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice,{{Cite web |title=Jane Goodall |url=http://swanmeadschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Jane-Goodall.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801231440/http://swanmeadschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Jane-Goodall.pdf |archive-date=1 August 2020 |work=swanmeadschool.co.uk}} and in the same year demanded the European Union end the use of medical research on animals and ensure more funding for alternative methods of medical research."Dr Jane Goodall appeals to EU to impose ban on animal testing". (28 May 2008). Associated Press. She controversially described Edinburgh Zoo's new primate enclosure as a "wonderful facility" where monkeys "are probably better off [than those] living in the wild in an area like Budongo, where one in six gets caught in a wire snare, and countries like Congo, where chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas are shot for food commercially."Mike Wade, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080906120137/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article3972868.ece "Zoos are best hope, says Jane Goodall".] The Times, 20 May 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008. This was in conflict with Advocates for Animals' position on captive animals.Tim Walker, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080526005435/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2011241/Is-Jane-Goodall-about-to-lose-her-post.html Is Jane Goodall about to lose her post?], The Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008. "She's entitled to her opinion, but our position isn't going to change. We oppose the keeping of animals in captivity for entertainment." In June that year, she resigned the presidency of the organisation which she had held since 1998, citing her busy schedule and explaining, "I just don't have time for them."Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5881/1269a "Defending captivity".] Science, Vol. 320. no. 5881, p. 1269, 6 June 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008. Goodall is a patron of the population concern charity Population Matters{{Cite web |title=Population Matters Patrons |url=http://www.populationmatters.org/about/people/patrons/ |website=www.populationmatters.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625195121/http://populationmatters.org/about/people/patrons/ |archive-date=25 June 2014 }} and {{as of|2017|lc=y}} is an ambassador for Disneynature.{{Cite web |title=Bears: Production Notes |url=http://www.wdsmediafile.com/media/bears/writen-material/bears534831541c35e.pdf |website=The Walt Disney Company |publisher=The Walt Disney Studios |access-date=6 June 2014 |page=20 |archive-date=11 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711031706/http://www.wdsmediafile.com/media/bears/writen-material/bears534831541c35e.pdf |url-status=dead}}

In 2010, Goodall, through JGI, formed a coalition with a number of organizations such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and petitioned to list all chimpanzees, including those that are captive, as endangered.{{Cite web |url=https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/docs/petition-fws-endangered-chimpanzees.pdf |title=Petition Before the Fish and Wildlife Service |website=Humane Society |date=16 March 2010 |access-date=8 April 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803062228/https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/docs/petition-fws-endangered-chimpanzees.pdf |url-status=dead }} In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that they would accept this rule and that all chimpanzees would be classified as endangered.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/science/chimpanzees-endangered-fish-and-wildlife-service.html |title=U.S. Will Call All Chimps 'Endangered' |last=St. Fleur |first=Nicholas |date=12 June 2015 |website=The New York Times}} In 2011, she became a patron of the Australian animal protection group Voiceless. "I have for decades been concerned about factory farming, in part because of the tremendous harm inflicted on the environment, but also because of the shocking ongoing cruelty perpetuated on millions of sentient beings."{{Cite web |title=Voiceless, the animal protection institute |url=https://www.voiceless.org.au/who-we-are/jane-goodall |access-date=4 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032918/https://www.voiceless.org.au/who-we-are/jane-goodall |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=dead}}

In 2012, she took on the role of challenger for the Engage in Conservation Challenge with The DO School, formerly known as the D&F Academy.{{Cite web |title=Internationales Kooperationsprojekt 'Engage in Conservation' |url=http://www.janegoodall.de/internationales-kooperationsprojekt-engage-in-conservation/ |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312211937/http://www.janegoodall.de/internationales-kooperationsprojekt-engage-in-conservation/ |archive-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead}} She worked with a group of aspiring social entrepreneurs to create a workshop to engage young people in conserving biodiversity, and to tackle a perceived global lack of awareness of the issue.{{Cite web |title=Conservation Challenge |url=http://thedoschool.org/challenges/engage-in-conservation-challenge/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815055724/http://thedoschool.org/challenges/engage-in-conservation-challenge/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 August 2013 |access-date=12 March 2014}} In 2014, Goodall wrote to Air France executives, criticizing the airline's continued transport of monkeys to laboratories. Goodall called the practice "cruel" and "traumatic" for the monkeys involved. The same year, Goodall also wrote to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to criticize maternal deprivation experiments on baby monkeys in NIH laboratories.{{Cite news |last1=Meikle |first1=James |title=Jane Goodall and Peter Gabriel urge Air France to stop ferrying lab monkeys |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/20/jane-goodall-peter-gabriel-air-france-stop-monkeys-transport |access-date=28 January 2015 |agency=The Guardian |date=20 May 2014}}{{Cite news |last1=King |first1=Barbara |title=Still Now, Should Lab Monkeys Be Deprived Of Their Mothers? |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/09/11/347656361/still-now-should-lab-monkeys-be-deprived-of-their-mothers |access-date=28 January 2015 |agency=NPR |date=11 September 2014}}

Prior to the 2015 UK general election, she endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party |title=Celebrities sign statement of support for Caroline Lucas – but not the Greens |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Jessica |last=Elgot |date=24 April 2015 |access-date=22 July 2015}} She is a critic of fox hunting and signed a letter to Members of Parliament in 2015 opposing the Conservative prime minister David Cameron's plan to amend the Hunting Act 2004.{{Cite news |url=http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/1324609-snp-to-vote-against-tories-on-fox-hunting-ban-in-england-and-wales/ |title=SNP to vote against Tories on fox hunting ban in England and Wales |work=STV |date=13 July 2015 |access-date=17 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715203740/http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/1324609-snp-to-vote-against-tories-on-fox-hunting-ban-in-england-and-wales/ |archive-date=15 July 2015}}

In August 2019, Goodall was honoured for her contributions to science with a bronze sculpture in Midtown Manhattan alongside nine other women, part of the Statues for Equality project.{{Cite web |url=https://www.6sqft.com/10-bronze-sculptures-of-powerful-women-are-on-view-outside-a-midtown-office-building |title=10 bronze sculptures of powerful women are on view outside a Midtown office building |website=6sqft |language=en-US |access-date=6 March 2020}} In 2020 she advocated for ecocide (mass damage or destruction of nature) to be made an international crime, stating “The concept of Ecocide is long overdue. It could lead to an important change in the way people perceive – and respond to – the current environmental crisis.”{{Cite web |title=Supporters of Ecocide Law |url=https://www.stopecocide.earth/supporters |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=Stop Ecocide International |language=en-US |archive-date=6 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606045438/https://www.stopecocide.earth/supporters |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |date=26 October 2021 |title=Ecocide as an international crime |url=https://una.org.uk/magazine/2021-1/ecocide-international-crime |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=UNA_UK |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Ecocide Law: The Use of Hard Law to Complement Soft Law |url=https://harvardilj.org/2021/05/ecocide-law-the-use-of-hard-law-to-complement-soft-law/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |language=en-US |archive-date=8 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608141749/https://harvardilj.org/2021/05/ecocide-law-the-use-of-hard-law-to-complement-soft-law/ |url-status=dead }} That same year, Goodall vowed to plant 5 million trees, part of the 1 trillion tree initiative founded by the World Economic Forum.{{Cite web |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/jane-goodall-name-a-tree-deforestation-davos/ |title=To save the planet's trees, we should treat them like people |website=World Economic Forum |date=22 January 2020 |access-date=26 March 2020}} In 2021, Goodall called on the EU Commission to abolish caging of farm animals.[https://www.ciwf.eu/news/2021/02/legendary-jane-goodall-140plus-scientists-call-on-eu-to-end-cages-in-farming Legendary Jane Goodall & 140+ scientists call on EU to end cages in farming] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204113019/https://www.ciwf.eu/news/2021/02/legendary-jane-goodall-140plus-scientists-call-on-eu-to-end-cages-in-farming |date=4 December 2022 }} from 23. February 2021 in Ciwf.eu.

In 2021, Goodall joined the Rewriting Extinction campaign to fight the climate and biodiversity crisis through comics. She is listed as a contributor to the book The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World{{Cite book |title=The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World |publisher=DK |year=2021 |isbn=978-0241513514}} which was released on 28 October 2021 by DK.{{Cite web |title=DK signs Most Important Comic Book on Earth with Gervais, Delevingne and Dench |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/dk-snares-most-important-comic-book-earth-1266452 |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=The Bookseller |language=}}

Goodall is known to support the possibility that undiscovered species of primates may still exist today, including cryptids such as Sasquatch, Yeren and other types of Bigfoot. She has talked about this possibility in various interviews and debates.{{cite news |last1=Gerlach |first1=David |date=28 March 2015 |title=Why Jane Goodall Believes in Bigfoot (Video) |url=https://www.livescience.com/50295-video-why-jane-goodall-believes-in-bigfoot.html |publisher=Live Science |agency=Future plc}}{{cite web |title=Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6469070?storyId=6469070 |website=NPR}}{{cite web |author=Flatow, Ira |author-link=Ira Flatow |date=27 September 2002 |title=Transcript of Dr. Jane Goodall's Comments on NPR Regarding Sasquatch |url=http://www.bfro.net/news/GoodallTranscript.asp |access-date=14 October 2016 |publisher=Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization |via=National Public Radio's Science Friday}} In 2012, when the Huffington Post asked her about it, Goodall replied: "I'm fascinated and would actually love them to exist," adding, "Of course, it's strange that there has never been a single authentic hide or hair of the Bigfoot, but I've read all the accounts."{{cite news |last=Moye |first=David |date=1 October 2012 |title=Jane Goodall 'Fascinated' By Bigfoot (VIDEO) |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/jane-goodall-bigfoot_n_1927876.html |access-date=7 August 2013 |newspaper=The Huffington Post}}

Goodall was raised in a Christian congregationalist family. As a young woman, she took night classes in Theosophy. Her family were occasional churchgoers, but Goodall began attending more regularly as a teenager when the church appointed a new minister, Trevor Davies. "He was highly intelligent and his sermons were powerful and thought-provoking... I could have listened to his voice for hours... I fell madly in love with him... Suddenly, no one had to encourage me to go to church. Indeed, there were never enough services for my liking." Of her later discovery of the atheism and agnosticism of many of her scientific colleagues, Goodall wrote that "[f]ortunately, by the time I got to Cambridge I was twenty-seven years old and my beliefs had already moulded so that I was not influenced by these opinions."{{Cite book |last1=Goodall |first1=Jane |title=Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey |date=1999 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=0-446-93042-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2q6cOl-zY5wC&q=reason+for+hope+congregational+church+jane+goodall&pg=PT29}}

In her 1999 book Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Goodall describes the implications of a mystical experience she had at Notre Dame Cathedral in 1977: "Since I cannot believe that this was the result of chance, I have to admit anti-chance. And so I must believe in a guiding power in the universe – in other words, I must believe in God."{{Cite web |last1=Goodall |first1=Jane |title=Dr. Goodall's thoughts on the fire of Notre Dame |url=https://news.janegoodall.org/2019/04/15/dr-goodalls-thoughts-on-the-fire-of-notre-dame/ |website=Jane Goodall Institute |date=15 April 2019 |access-date=29 April 2021}} When asked if she believes in God, Goodall said in September 2010: "I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me."Jane Goodall's Questions & Answers, Reader's Digest, p. 128, September 2010 When asked in the same year if she still considers herself a Christian, Goodall told the Guardian "I suppose so; I was raised as a Christian." and stated that she saw no contradiction between evolution and belief in God.{{cite news |last1=Moss |first1=Stephen |title=Jane Goodall: 'My job is to give people hope' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/jan/13/jane-goodall |access-date=30 April 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=13 January 2010}}

In her foreword to the 2017 book The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo, a philosopher of science who advocates quantum consciousness theory, Goodall wrote: "we must accept that there is an Intelligence driving the process [of evolution], that the Universe and life on Earth are inspired and in-formed by an unknown and unknowable Creator, a Supreme Being, a Great Spiritual Power."{{Cite book |last1=Laszlo |first1=Ervin |author-link1=Ervin László |title=The Intelligence of the Cosmos |date=2017 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=Foreword |isbn=978-1-62055-732-7 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S3goDwAAQBAJ&q=Jane+Goodall+forward+ervin+laszlo}}

Goodall has married twice. On 28 March 1964, she married a Dutch nobleman, wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick, at Chelsea Old Church, London, and became known during their marriage as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall.{{Cite web |last=Simone |first=Morgan |date=10 December 2019 |title=Interesting facts about Jane Goodall |url=https://www.geekycamel.com/interesting-facts-jane-goodall/ |access-date=18 July 2020 |website=Geeky Camel |language=en |archive-date=19 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719034645/https://www.geekycamel.com/interesting-facts-jane-goodall/ |url-status=dead }} The couple had a son, Hugo Eric Louis (born 1967); they divorced in 1974. The following year, she married Derek Bryceson, a member of Tanzania's parliament and the director of that country's national parks. Bryceson died of cancer in October 1980.{{Cite book |title=Walking With the Great Apes |last=Montgomery |first=Sy |author-link=Sy Montgomery |year=1991 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-0-395-51597-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/walkingwithgreat00mont/page/125 125–126] |url=https://archive.org/details/walkingwithgreat00mont/page/125}} Owing to his position in the Tanzanian government as head of the country's national park system, Bryceson could protect Goodall's research project and implement an embargo on tourism at Gombe.

Goodall has stated that dogs are her favourite animal.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/jane-goodall-my-favourite-animal-is-a-dog/article575777/ |title=Jane Goodall: 'My favourite animal is a dog's |work=The Globe and Mail |first=Zosia |last=Bielski |date=7 April 2011 |access-date=26 March 2020}}

Goodall has prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces.{{Cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/23/health/gallery/notable-prosopagnosia/index.html |title=Photos: The faces of those who don't recognize faces |publisher=CNN |date=23 May 2013}}

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Many standard methods aim to avoid interference by observers, and in particular some believe that the use of feeding stations to attract Gombe chimpanzees has altered normal foraging and feeding patterns and social relationships. This argument is the focus of a book published by Margaret Power in 1991.Power, Margaret (1991). The Egalitarians – Human and Chimpanzee An Anthropological: View of Social Organization. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-40016-3}}.{{page needed|date=March 2017}} It has been suggested that higher levels of aggression and conflict with other chimpanzee groups in the area were due to the feeding, which could have created the "wars" between chimpanzee social groups described by Goodall, aspects of which she did not witness in the years before artificial feeding began at Gombe. Thus, some regard Goodall's observations as distortions of normal chimpanzee behaviour.{{Cite journal |doi=10.1038/nature03999 |pmid=16136128 |title=A century of getting to know the chimpanzee |journal=Nature |volume=437 |issue=7055 |pages=56–59 |year=2005 |last1=De Waal |first1=Frans B. M. |bibcode=2005Natur.437...56D |s2cid=4363065 |quote=skeptics attributed chimpanzee 'warfare' to competition over the food that researchers provided}}

Goodall herself acknowledged that feeding contributed to aggression within and between groups, but maintained that the effect was limited to alteration of the intensity and not the nature of chimpanzee conflict, and further suggested that feeding was necessary for the study to be effective at all. Craig Stanford of the Jane Goodall Research Institute at the University of Southern California states that researchers conducting studies with no artificial provisioning have a difficult time viewing any social behaviour of chimpanzees, especially those related to inter-group conflict.{{Cite news |last=Stanford |first=Craig |title=The Egalitarians – Human and Chimpanzee |publisher=International Journal of Primatology |date=Winter 1993}}

Some studies, such as those by Crickette Sanz in the Goualougo Triangle (Congo) and Christophe Boesch in the Taï National Park (Ivory Coast), have not shown the aggression observed in the Gombe studies.Washington University Record, Vol 28 No 28, April 2004. However, other primatologists disagree that the studies are flawed; for example, Jim Moore provides a critique of Margaret Powers' assertionsJIM MOORE, Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego [https://web.archive.org/web/20071014215932/http://cogprints.org/738/0/Power.html The Egalitarians – Human and Chimpanzee (book review).]. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 88: 259–262. and some studies of other chimpanzee groups have shown aggression similar to that in Gombe even in the absence of feeding.American Journal of Primatology 58:175–180 (2002), Noboyuki Kutsukake and Takahisa Matsusaka.

On 22 March 2013, Hachette Book Group announced that Goodall's and co-author Gail Hudson's new book, Seeds of Hope, would not be released on 2 April as planned due to the discovery of plagiarised portions.Italie, Hillel (Associated Press). "[http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0323/Jane-Goodall-apologizes-for-plagiarizing-in-new-book Jane Goodall apologizes for plagiarizing in new book]." Christian Science Monitor 23 March 2013. Accessed 24 June 2013. A reviewer for The Washington Post found unattributed sections that were copied from websites about organic tea and tobacco and an "amateurish astrology site", as well as from Wikipedia.Swaine, Jon. "[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/9944189/Dame-Jane-Goodall-admits-parts-of-book-were-lifted-from-online.html Dame Jane Goodall admits parts of book were lifted from online]" The Telegraph, 20 March 2013. Accessed 4 May 2016. Goodall apologised and stated, "It is important to me that the proper sources are credited, and I will be working diligently with my team to address all areas of concern. My goal is to ensure that when this book is released it is not only up to the highest of standards, but also that the focus be on the crucial messages it conveys."Flood, Alison. "[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/25/jane-goodall-book-accused-plagiarising-wikipedia Jane Goodall book held back after accusations of plagiarism]." The Guardian, 25 March 2013. Accessed 24 June 2013. The book was released on 1 April 2014, after review and the addition of 57 pages of endnotes.{{Cite news |last=Levingston |first=Steven |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/04/02/jane-goodalls-seeds-of-hope-reissued-a-year-after-being-pulled-from-shelves-2/ |title=Jane Goodall's 'Seeds of Hope' reissued a year after being pulled from shelves |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2 April 2014 |access-date=21 April 2018}}

One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"{{Cite news |url=http://comicsalliance.com/tribute-gary-larson-far-side/ |title=The Strange Legacy of Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' |work=ComicsAlliance |date=14 August 2015 |access-date=20 August 2016 |author=Chris Sims}} Goodall herself was in Africa at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the cartoon amusing.Larson, Gary. The Prehistory of the Far Side: a 10th-anniversary exhibit. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeel, 1989. {{ISBN|0-8362-1851-5}}.

Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection.Larson, Gary. The Far Side Gallery 5. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeel, 1995. ({{ISBN|0-8362-0425-5}}). She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.

On 3 March 2022, in celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, The Lego Group issued set number 40530, A Jane Goodall Tribute, depicting a Jane Goodall minifigure and three chimpanzees in an African forest scene.{{Cite web |date=26 February 2022 |title=LEGO 40530 Jane Goodall Tribute GWP revealed for International Women's Day 2022! |url=https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-40530-jane-goodall-tribute-gwp-revealed-for-international-womens-day-2022/ |access-date=26 February 2022 |website=Jay's Brick Blog |language=en-US}}

{{Further|Awards received by Jane Goodall}}File:Jane Goodall sharing the magical wonders of water and wetlands with children on Martha's Vineyard.jpg, US, 2006]]

Goodall has received many honours for her environmental and humanitarian work, as well as others. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in an Investiture held at Buckingham Palace in 2004.[http://www.janegoodall.org/media/news/dame-jane-goodall Dame Jane Goodall Receives Appointment in Buckingham Palace Ceremony]. Jane Goodall Institute, 20 February 2004. Retrieved 7 November 2011. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Her other honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the French Legion of Honour, Medal of Tanzania, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish Prince of Asturias Awards.

Goodall is also a member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine and a patron of Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust).

Goodall has received many tributes, honours, and awards from local governments, schools, institutions, and charities around the world. Goodall is honoured by The Walt Disney Company with a plaque on the Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, alongside a carving of her beloved David Greybeard, the original chimpanzee that approached Goodall during her first year at Gombe.{{Cite web |url=http://adisney.go.com/disneyhand/environmentality/environment/pdfs/wcfdoc.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327000457/http://adisney.go.com/disneyhand/environmentality/environment/pdfs/wcfdoc.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2009 |title=Disney's Commitment to Conservation |publisher=Disney |year=2005 |access-date=1 September 2010}} She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web |title=Valerie Jane Goodall |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/valerie-jane-goodall |access-date=28 April 2022 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Jane+Goodall&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=28 April 2022 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}

In 2010, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds held a benefit concert at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC to commemorate "Gombe 50: a global celebration of Jane Goodall's pioneering chimpanzee research and inspiring vision for our future".{{cite web |url=http://www.janegoodall.org/an-evening-with-Jane-Goodall-Dave-Matthews-and-Tim-Reynolds |title=Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Benefit Concert |publisher=The Jane Goodall Institute |access-date=20 July 2010}} Time magazine named Goodall as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.{{Cite news |url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567774/jane-goodall/ |title=Jane Goodall |first=Leonardo |last=DiCaprio |author-link=Leonardo DiCaprio |magazine=Time |date=17 April 2019 |access-date=18 April 2019}} In 2021, she received the Templeton Prize.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/20/naturalist-jane-goodall-wins-2021-templeton-prize-for-lifes-work |title=Naturalist Jane Goodall wins 2021 Templeton prize for life's work|first1=Harriet |last1=Sherwood |work=The Guardian |date=20 May 2021}}

On 31 December 2021, Goodall was the guest editor of the BBC Radio Four Today programme.{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio and BBC Sounds deliver listening delights and superlative soundtracks this Christmas |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/christmas-radio-2021/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-12-31 |title=BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Dr Jane Goodall's Today Programme |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bdrxby |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} She chose Francis Collins to be presenter of Thought for the Day.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-31 |title=BBC Radio 4 - Thought for the Day, Francis Collins |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bdrbhs |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}

In 2022, Dr. Goodall received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication for her long-term study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.[https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1091782/ STARMUS VI: World's foremost expert on chimpanzees awarded with Stephen Hawking Medal], 5 September 2022, Armenpress

In April 2023, Goodall was made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau in a ceremony in The Hague, the Netherlands.{{cite web | title=Koninklijke onderscheiding voor bioloog Jane Goodall | website=Trouw | date=29 April 2023 | url=https://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/4713032/staande-ovatie-en-koninklijke-onderscheiding-voor-beroemde-biologe-jane-goodall | language=nl | access-date=February 12, 2024}}{{cite web | title=Lintje voor Jane Goodall, die al 60 jaar strijdt voor apen en natuur | website=NOS.nl | date=April 29, 2023 | url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2473295-lintje-voor-jane-goodall-die-al-60-jaar-strijdt-voor-apen-en-natuur | language=nl | access-date=February 12, 2024}}

In October 2024, Dr. Goodall gave "A Speech for History" at UNESCO.{{cite web | title=Dr Jane Goodall gives "A Speech for History" at UNESCO | website=UNESCO | date=22 October 2024 | url=https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/dr-jane-goodall-gives-speech-history-unesco | language=en | access-date=October 22, 2024}} She delivered an optimistic message on conservation and the role that everyone can play in preserving our planet by educating youth and communities to protect and respect the natural world.

In January 2025, Dr. Goodall was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.{{Cite news |last=Lavelle |first=Daniel |date=2025-01-04 |title=Bono, Anna Wintour and Jane Goodall receive Presidential Medals of Freedom |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/04/bono-anna-wintour-jane-goodall-receive-biden-presidential-medals-of-freedom |access-date=2025-01-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

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• 1969 My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees Washington, DC: National Geographic Society
• 1971 Innocent Killers (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins
• 1971 In the Shadow of Man Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins. Published in 48 languages
• 1986 The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior Boston: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. Published also in Japanese and Russian. R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Technical, Scientific or Medical book of 1986, to Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, Boston. The Wildlife Society (USA) Award for "Outstanding Publication in Wildlife Ecology and Management"
• 1990 Through a Window: 30 years observing the Gombe chimpanzees London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Translated into more than 15 languages. 1991 Penguin edition, UK. American Library Association "Best" list among Nine Notable Books (Nonfiction) for 1991
• 1991 Visions of Caliban (co-authored with Dale Peterson, PhD). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. New York Times "Notable Book" for 1993. Library Journal "Best Sci-Tech Book" for 1993
• 1999 Brutal Kinship (with Michael Nichols). New York: Aperture Foundation
• 1999 Reason For Hope; A Spiritual Journey (with Phillip Berman). New York: Warner Books, Inc. Translated into Japanese and Portuguese
• 2000 40 Years At Gombe New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang
• 2000 Africa In My Blood (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company
• 2001 Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters, the later years (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company {{ISBN|0-618-12520-5}}
• 2002 The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do To Care for the Animals We Love (with Marc Bekoff). San Francisco: Harper San Francisco
• 2005 Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating New York: Warner Books, Inc. {{ISBN|0-446-53362-9}}
• 2009 Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Grand Central Publishing {{ISBN|0-446-58177-1}}
• 2013 Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants (with Gail Hudson) Grand Central Publishing {{ISBN|1-4555-1322-9}}
• 2021 The Book of Hope, with Douglas Abrams and Gail Hudson, VikingThe New Statesman, 15–21 October 2021, p. 40, review by Philippa Nuttall

• 1972 Grub: The Bush Baby (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin
• 1988 My Life with the Chimpanzees New York: Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Translated into French, Japanese and Chinese. Parenting's Reading-Magic Award for "Outstanding Book for Children," 1989
• 1989 The Chimpanzee Family Book Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio; Munich: Neugebauer Press; London: Picture Book Studio. Translated into more than 15 languages, including Japanese and Swahili. The UNICEF Award for the best children's book of 1989. Austrian state prize for best children's book of 1990.
• 1989 Jane Goodall's Animal World: Chimps New York: Macmillan
• 1989 Animal Family Series: Chimpanzee Family; Lion Family; Elephant Family; Zebra Family; Giraffe Family; Baboon Family; Hyena Family; Wildebeest Family Toronto: Madison Marketing Ltd
• 1994 With Love, New York / London: North-South Books. Translated into German, French, Italian, and Japanese
• 1999 Dr. White (illustrated by Julie Litty). New York: North-South Books
• 2000 The Eagle & the Wren (illustrated by Alexander Reichstein). New York: North-South Books
• 2001: Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours New York: Scholastic Press
• 2002 (Foreword) "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth by Eric Carle. Philomel Books
• 2004 Rickie and Henri: A True Story (with Alan Marks) Penguin Young Readers Group

Goodall is the subject of more than 40 films:{{cite news|author=I.M.|title=Not just another film about Jane Goodall|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/10/human-touch|newspaper=The Economist|date=19 October 2017}}

• 1965 Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees National Geographic Society
• 1973 Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa with Hugo van Lawick
• 1975 Miss Goodall: The Hyena Story The World of Animal Behavior Series 16mm [http://www.blam1.com/DiscoVision/Informational/51-003.htm 1979 version] for DiscoVision, not released for LaserDisc
• 1976 Lions of the Serengeti an episode of The World About Us on BBC2
• 1984: Among the Wild Chimpanzees National Geographic Special
• 1988 People of the Forest with Hugo van Lawick
• 1990 Chimpanzee Alert in the Nature Watch Series, Central Television
• 1990 The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall National Geographic Society.
• 1990 The Gombe Chimpanzees Bavarian Television
• 1995 Fifi's Boys for the Natural World series for the BBC
• 1996 Chimpanzee Diary for BBC2 Animal Zone
• 1997 Animal Minds for BBC
• Goodall voiced herself in the animated TV series The Wild Thornberrys.
• 2000 Jane Goodall: Reason For Hope PBS special produced by KTCA
• 2001 {{Scientific American Frontiers |11|8|Chimps R Us}}
• 2002 Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (IMAX format), in collaboration with Science North
• 2005 Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe for Animal Planet
• 2006 Chimps, So Like Us HBO film nominated for 1990 Academy Award
• 2007 When Animals Talk, We Should Listen theatrical documentary feature co-produced by Animal Planet
• 2010 Jane's Journey theatrical documentary feature co-produced by Animal Planet
• 2012 Chimpanzee theatrical nature documentary feature co-produced by Disneynature
• 2017 Jane biographical documentary film National Geographic Studios, in association with Public Road Productions. The film is directed and written by Brett Morgen, music by Philip Glass
• Zayed's 2018 Antarctic Lights, Dr Jane featured in the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi film that screened on National Geographic-Abu Dhabi and won a World Medal at the New York Film and TV Awards.{{Cite web|title=Zayed's Antarctic Lights|url=https://www.natgeotv.com/me/zayeds-antarctic-lights|access-date=19 June 2020|website=National Geographic – Videos, TV Shows & Photos – Middle East – English|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Winners Gallery – New York Festivals|url=https://tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/WinnerDetails/543073|access-date=19 June 2020|website=tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com}}
• 2019 Exploring Hans Hass Dr Jane Goodall featured in the biographical documentary film about the legendary diving pioneer and filmmaker Hans Hass{{cite web|url=https://www.diagonale.at/en/filmarchiv/?fid=9315|title=Exploring Hans Hass Documentary Film, AT 2019, Farbe+SW, 100 min., 20.03. dOF / 23.03. OmeU Diagonale 2019}}
• 2020 Jane Goodall: The Hope, biographical documentary film, National Geographic Studios, produced by Lucky 8{{Cite web|url=https://news.janegoodall.org/2019/07/25/new-doc-special-the-hope-tells-story-of-janes-living-legacy/|title=New Doc Special The Hope Tells Story Of Jane's Living Legacy|date=25 July 2019}}
• 2023 Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope is an IMAX format documentary about successful projects to restore earth's wildlife habitat, animals, birds and environment.{{cite web|url= https://www.phoenixmag.com/2023/06/03/renowned-conservationist-jane-goodall-visits-arizona-science-center-for-documentary-debut/|title= Renowned Conservationist Jane Goodall Visits Arizona Science Center for Documentary Debut|last= Moorehead|first=M.V.|date= 3 June 2023|website= Phoenix Magazine|access-date= 8 June 2023}}

• Animal Faith
• USC Jane Goodall Research Center
• Nonhuman Rights Project
• Dian Fossey, the trimate who studied gorillas until her murder
• Birutė Galdikas, the trimate who dedicated herself to orangutan study
• Steven M. Wise
• Washoe
• List of animal rights advocates
• Timeline of women in science

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• [http://discovermagazine.com/2007/mar/the-discover-interview-jane-goodall#.UxOJsRa6Fdg Jane Goodall] at Discover Magazine
• [http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2010/07/interview-tanzania-science Jane Goodall] interviewed by Alyssa McDonald in July 2010 for the New Statesman
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6JLvIxdbjQ Jane Goodall – Overpopulation in the Developing World] at Fora TV
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130430182557/http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/institutes/ipj/programs/distinguished_lecture_series/biographies/Jane_Goodall.php Lecture transcript and video of Goodall's speech] at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego, April 2008
• [https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/jane-goodall/ Jane Goodall extended film interview with transcripts for the 'Why Are We Here?' documentary series].
• [https://think.kera.org/2016/03/31/jane-goodall-on-a-life-of-animal-advocacy/ A Conversation with Jane Goodall] (audio interview)
• [https://onbeing.org/programs/jane-goodall-on-what-it-means-to-be-human/ "On Being" radio interview] with Krista Tippett, broadcast August 2020

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