{"id":1319503,"date":"2020-04-16T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/jane-goodall-shares-reasons-for-hope-in-new-nat-geo-documentary\/"},"modified":"2020-04-16T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:40:00","slug":"jane-goodall-shares-reasons-for-hope-in-new-nat-geo-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/jane-goodall-shares-reasons-for-hope-in-new-nat-geo-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Goodall shares reasons for hope in new Nat Geo documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/AEGoodall-gpi-041720-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/AEGoodall-gpi-041720-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/AEGoodall-gpi-041720-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/AEGoodall-gpi-041720-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/AEGoodall-gpi-041720.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>National Geographic\u2019s new documentary, &#8220;Jane Goodall: The Hope,&#8221; follows the current exploits of animal expert and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall.<\/strong><br \/><em>NTVB Media<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">National Geographic\u2019s new documentary, Jane Goodall: The Hope, airing Wednesday, April 22, follows the current exploits of one of the world\u2019s most beloved figures, the animal expert and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall. Made famous through her studies of chimpanzees, Goodall now spearheads programs for children across the world to learn about and better understand the world around them. We caught up with Goodall at home in the U.K. to ask about her illustrious life and what she hopes she will be remembered for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Q: Where did your love of animals come from?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A: I was born with it. It didn\u2019t come from anywhere; it came in my package. There was no passionate animal lover in my family at all. It was just me and a very supportive mother who didn\u2019t get angry when she found worms in my bed when I was 1 and a half [years old]. That sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Q: Your mother had to accompany you when you first began your studies. What was that like?<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/pi-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A: Well, Louis Leakey managed to get the money for me to do six months, but then the second problem was the British authorities in Tanzania \u2014 which was Tanganyika back then, part of the crumbling British empire \u2014 absolutely refused for me to go alone, so the person who volunteered to come was Mum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She organized the clinic, which really started my super relationship with all of the local people from miles around. She wasn\u2019t a doctor or a nurse, but she had simple aspirins and bandages and Epsom salts and things like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Q: When you first started studying the chimps in the \u201860s, technology was a lot different. How would you communicate your findings from the field?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A: Pen and ink written on sheet. That\u2019s all I had, a pair of old binoculars and the tiny notebooks I took in the field, and I transcribed them with a hurricane lamp in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Q: What\u2019s a time you remember when you were the most scared?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A: Well, it wasn\u2019t very nice when I got a message from one of my helpers. He came up to find me in the mountains, and he said that 20 young men from the nearby village had come and cut down all the trees all around my tent \u2014 they wanted me to go away. They felt that I was taking land away from them, which wasn\u2019t true; it was already a game reserve. They expected to find me in the camp because it was 6 in the morning, but I used to leave at 5:30 to be up there when it was light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\"> Q: What do you most want to be remembered for?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A: When I got to Cambridge in 1961, I was told by the professors that I shouldn\u2019t have given the chimps names. They should have had numbers that were scientific, and I couldn\u2019t talk about personality, mind or emotions because those were unique to [humans]. But I\u2019d already learned as a child, [when] I had a wonderful teacher who taught me that that absolutely wasn\u2019t true, and that was my dog. Of course, you can\u2019t share your life with an animal and not know that we\u2019re not the only being on the planet with personality, mind and emotion. \u2026 Gradually science was forced to think in a less reductionist way. And today students can study personality, mind and emotion. So I think that was a major accomplishment, and the fact that I\u2019m obstinate and wouldn\u2019t give in to the accepted norm. And the other [accomplishment] has been starting our youth program, Roots &amp; Shoots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Q: Can you explain a little more about Roots &amp; Shoots?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A: It began in 1991 because I was finding, as I traveled around the world, [that] there were so many young people who didn\u2019t seem to have much hope for the future, and all around the world they told me that we\u2019d compromised their future and there was nothing they could do about it. We\u2019re still stealing it today, the way we\u2019re damaging the environment, climate change and all the rest of it. But I didn\u2019t agree there was nothing they could do. So Roots &amp; Shoots began with 12 secondary school students in Tanzania and the main message [is] every single one of us makes some impact on the planet every single day. So that program is now in 65 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There will always be some who want to help animals, some who want to help people, some who want to help the environment. And they get together, they discuss it, they work out what they can do, then they roll up their sleeves and go and take action. It\u2019s all about taking action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/entertainment\/jane-goodall-shares-reasons-for-hope-in-new-nat-geo-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic\u2019s new documentary, &#8220;Jane Goodall: The Hope,&#8221; follows the current exploits of animal expert and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall.NTVB Media National Geographic\u2019s new documentary, Jane Goodall: The Hope, airing Wednesday, April 22, follows the current exploits of one of the world\u2019s most beloved figures, the animal expert and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall. 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