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Jane Goodall travels to Kenya by boat. She had a wonderful time seeing and meeting new people in Africa. She also meats famous anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey.
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Tool making became one of Jane's greatest discoveries. Until that time, only humans were known to making tools.
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Jane and Vanne arrive on the shores of Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in western Tanzania
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Jane observes meat-eating for the first time. Later, she sees chimpanzees hunt for meat. These observations disprove the belief that chimpanzees are vegetarian
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Jane observes David Greybeard and Goliath making tools to extract termites from their mounds. They would select a thin branch from a tree, strip the leaves and push the branch into the termite mound. After a few seconds they would take it out and eat the termites
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National Geographic decides to sponsor Jane's work and sends photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick to document Jane's life in Gombe.
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Jane Goodall earns her Ph.D in ehtology. Also in 1965, Jane Goodall is provided funds for the construction for aluminum buildings in Gombe
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In 1974, Jane Goodall divorces with Hugo van Lanwick and marries Derek Bryceson in 1975
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Jane founds the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation
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Jane begins groundwork for Chimpanzoo, an international research program of the Jane Goodall Institution dedicated to study captive chimpanzees.
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During the scientific conference in Chicago organized around Jane's scholary work, Jane and the fellow attendees are stunned as consecutive speakers make it clear that there is habitat destruction affecting chimpanzees across Africa. She leaves the conference knowing she needs to go work with the chimpanzees and leave Gombe behind.
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Jane and 16 Tanzanian students found Roots and Shoots, Jane Goodall's global environmental and humanitarian education program for youth.
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The Lake Tanganyika Reforestation and Education project is founded. This program helps communities near the Lake Tanganyika start sustainable agriculture, micro-finance initiatives and conservation education so that local habitats and animal species are protected
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appoints Jane to serve as a United Nations Messenger of Peace
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Jane is made Dame of the British Empire during a ceremony at the Buckingham Palace in London
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2015 marked the 55th Aniversary of the Gombe National Park. Because of Jane and her dedicated researchers, the lives of chimpanzees have been documented, photographed and filmed more than any other wild animal
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Nowadays, Jane continues travelling around 300 days per year speaking in auditoriums and schools about the threats that chimpanzees are facing, other environmental problems, and her reasons for hope that we will solve these problems.