The world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees Dr. Jane Goodall arrived in the country on Sunday 20th August ahead of the 25th-anniversary celebrations of Ngamba Chimpanzee Sanctuary.
Goodall stepped into the country at around 02: 00 pm and she was welcomed by Priscillar Nyakwera the Operations Manager at Jane Goodall Institute – Uganda, Ivan Amanigaruhanga Executive Director, Uganda Biodiversity Fund, James Byamukama, the Executive Director for Jane Goodall Institute – Uganda, Joshua Rukundo, the Executive Director Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust, Simon Nampindo, the Executive Director Wildlife Conservation Society– Uganda and Peter Apell, the Programs Director, Jane Goodall Institute – Uganda.
The renowned conservationist will on Tuesday 22nd August deliver a public lecture about chimpanzees and conservation at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala.
She is also expected to attend the 25th celebrations of Ngamba chimpanzees sanctuary as well as launch Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots offices at Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre (UWEC) – Entebbe Zoo.
About Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in 1934 in Hampstead, London, to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000) a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.
The family later moved to Bournemouth, and Goodall attended Uplands School, an independent school in nearby Poole.
As a child, Goodall’s father gave her a stuffed toy chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for it sparked her early love of animals, commenting, “My mother’s friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares.” Jubilee still sits on Goodall’s dresser in London.
Dr. Jane Goodall is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years of studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees and she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.
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