Jane Goodall: The Plight of the Chimpanzee

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Famed biologist Jane Goodall recalls the gradual destruction of the chimpanzee's natural habitat and their rapidly declining numbers. She presents the plight of the chimpanzee as just one example of a species that has been pushed to "the brink of extinction" by human factors.

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Famed biologist Jane Goodall recalls the gradual destruction of the chimpanzee's natural habitat and their rapidly declining numbers. She presents the plight of the chimpanzee as just one example of a species that has been pushed to "the brink of extinction" by human factors. - Georgetown University

Dame Jane Goodall, DBE, is an English UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist.

She is best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Stream National Park for 45 years, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute.

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