Jane+Goodall

media type="google" key="-2753016969227049211&ei=9fEbSrOsJqjuqQKEk6i4Dg&q=jane+goodall&hl=en" width="400" height="326" Jane Goodall By Sarah Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, and is still alive. As a child she liked to climb trees and read a book in them. She lived in London England, but at the age of 12 her parents got divorced. Then she lived in Bournemouth, England. She got married twice. The first time she got married was in 1964 and she was divorced in 1974. The second time she got married was in 1975, but in 1980 her husband died.

Louis Leakey hired her as an assistant and a secretary. Then Louis asked Jane to study chimpanzees in 1960. He asked Jane to go to Africa with him and then Jane was the first scientist to go in the rainforest and study what chimpanzees did. When she went to Africa she surveyed the chimps all day and all night for 30 years. When Jane spent her first Christmas with the chimps she gave the chimps a big bunch of bananas.

When she went back seven years ago, she found out that people were destroying the chimps’ habitat by cutting down the trees in the forest so she started a program called **__Roots & Shoots.__** Without her the chimps might have died out. Now there is land set aside for the chimps.

Jane started Roots & Shoots to save the earth and the chimps. Roots & Shoots is a program to raise money for endangered animals. The reason for the name Roots & Shoots is that roots keep a good foundation and shoots can “break walls” and if you break through the wall you can change the world. Each person can make a difference. There are about 8,000 groups in 100 countries. Now because of Jane Goodall the whole world is following in her foot steps to try to save the forest and the world.

Works Cited Goodall, Jane. __Chimpanzees I Love Saving Their World And Ours (Byron Preiss Book)__. New York: Scholastic P, 2001.

"Jane Goodall -." __Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia__. 21 May 2009 .  __The Jane Goodall Institute __. 21 May 2009 . "Jane Goodall." __Webster__ __University__. 21 May 2009 .

Senn, J. A. __Jane Goodall, naturalist__. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch P, 1993.