Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), is a British primatologist

Primatology

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, ethologist

Ethology

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, anthropologist

Anthropology

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, and UN Messenger of Peace

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. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzee

Chimpanzee

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s, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania

Tanzania

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. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute

Jane Goodall Institute

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 and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.
Jane Goodall was born in London

London

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, England in 1934 to Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall, a businessman, and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph, a novelist who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.