More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she’s been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, has been honoured with countless awards, was appointed “Dame of the British Empire” and was even admitted to the “Légion d’Honneur”, the highest decoration of France.

In “Jane’s Journey”, we accompany her on her travels across several continents, with unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to ‘Gombe National Park’ on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. This is where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and where to this day she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected.

“Jane’s Journey” is an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon – an exceptional woman, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time, whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be among the most important of the past 100 years.

Click here for information about Jane's Journey screening in Australia.

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Dr. Jane's latest book, Me....Jane

Me......Jane
Video: Jane Goodall, Illustrated, The New York Times                          
Top of the Shelf: Me…Jane, Shop Talk                                  
ME ... JANE, Reading Radar

As they become available, we will post the Press Releases for each of Dr. Jane Goodall's upcoming events and Australian tour here:

Sydney Town Hall Public Lecture, 20th June 2011
Jane Goodall Chimp Exhibit, Adelaide, 12th June 2011
Music for Trees Concert, 5th June 2011
Polli Jewelry Design for JGI, 5th June 2011
Music For Trees World Environment Day, 5th June 2011

For full listing of events, visit our Lectures & Events page

For more information on our institute and it's programs, please download our factsheets

Internationally renowned primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall, has called on Australians to recycle their mobile phones to help save Africa’s last remaining gorillas.

The plea, which coincides with the United Nation’s International Year of the Gorilla, is aimed at ending the illegal mining of coltan in gorilla habitats. Coltan is a mineral that is found in mobile phones and dozens of everyday electronic devices.

“The sad fact is that the illegal mining of coltan is threatening the gorillas of Africa”, said Dr. Goodall.

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The illegal mining of coltan in West Africa is threatening the survival of gorillas and other primates through habitat destruction and violent unrest.

Distinguished primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall launched the campaign at Melbourne Zoo in October, and today the campaign went national with Australian Fur Seal Spud at Sea World becoming the first mobile recycler of the new Australia-wide program.

Sea World is pleased to be joining with other zoos across Australia to help alleviate this pressure and play a role in primate conservation.

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The Year of the Gorilla (YoG) is a joint initiative of UNEP Convention of Migrator Species (CMS), the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership (GRASP) and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA). The objectives are to raise awareness, focus on education and to fund field conservation projects in Africa.

The gorilla is found only in the forests of Africa - all 4 sub species are endangered. Numbers continue to fall due to deforestation, mining, bushmeat and war.

The Jane Goodall Institute in Australia is committed to raising awareness of another great ape, the gorilla and raise funds to assist in the conservation of this majestic creature.

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