Jane Goodall Timeline

By pedro.m

  • Birth of Jane Goodall

  • Jane Goodal travels to Kenya

    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.

  • Jane sees chimpanzees making tools

    Tool making became one of Jane's greatest discoveries. Until that time, only humans were known to making tools.

  • Jane and Vanne arrive in Tanzania

    Jane and Vanne arrive on the shores of Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in western Tanzania

  • Jane Goodall observes meat eating for the first time

    Jane observes meat-eating for the first time. Later, she sees chimpanzees hunt for meat. These observations disprove the belief that chimpanzees are vegetarian

  • Jane observed chimpanzees make tools to extract termites

    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

  • National Geographic sponsor Jane

    National Geographic decides to sponsor Jane's work and sends photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick to document Jane's life in Gombe.

  • Jane Goodall and Hugo Van Lawick marry

  • Jane Goodall earns her Ph.D

    Jane Goodall earns her Ph.D in ehtology. Also in 1965, Jane Goodall is provided funds for the construction for aluminum buildings in Gombe

  • Jane marries Derek Bryceson

    In 1974, Jane Goodall divorces with Hugo van Lanwick and marries Derek Bryceson in 1975

  • Jane founds her institution

    Jane founds the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation

  • Jane begins groundwork for Chipanzoo

    Jane begins groundwork for Chimpanzoo, an international research program of the Jane Goodall Institution dedicated to study captive chimpanzees.

  • Jane and her Colleagues are stunned

    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.

  • Jane found Roots and Shoots

    Jane and 16 Tanzanian students found Roots and Shoots, Jane Goodall's global environmental and humanitarian education program for youth.

  • The Lake Tanganyika Reforestation and Education project is founded

    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

  • Jane Goodall appointed as United Nations Messenger of Peace

    United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appoints Jane to serve as a United Nations Messenger of Peace

  • Jane is made Dame

    Jane is made Dame of the British Empire during a ceremony at the Buckingham Palace in London

  • 55th Aniversary of the Gombe National Park

    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

  • Jane Goodall continues her work

    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.