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| Happy 80th Birthday, Dr. Jane Goodall (sign her birthday card) |
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| Credit: Why Not Girl! Even as a young girl, she organized a nature club for her friends. |
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| Photo Credit: Hugo Van Lawick For decades, she courageously observed chimps in their natural African habitat, being the first to show that they were not vegetarians and that they used tools. |
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| Photo Credit: Ron Henggleler She founded "Roots and Shoots", an organization that supports youth conservation initiatives and has impacted 150,000 young people in 130 countries. |
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| Awareness Helps Ⓥ AnimalsEarthHealth She has fearlessly advocated for animals her entire life. |
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| Photo Credit: Stuart Clarke And she has never despaired of the ability of people to positively change our world. |
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| Photo Credit: The Jane Goodall Institute "It is easy to be overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness as we look around the world. We are losing species at a terrible rate, the balance of nature is disturbed, and we are destroying our beautiful planet. We have fear about water supplies, where future energy will come from – and most recently the developed world has been mired in an economic crisis. But in spite of all this I do have hope. And my hope is based on four factors. Click here to see Dr. Goodall's four reasons.
You can watch a 3-minute biography here (unfortunately no embed code is provided):
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