Goodall told an audience who was overwhelmed seeing her in person: “Without tears in your eyes, there’ll be no rainbow in your heart”
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/10/26
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Jane Goodall (Photo by Taiwan News)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – World-class primatologist and ethologist Jane Goodall delivered an address in Taipei on Oct. 26 before a packed auditorium of several hundred, who appeared profoundly inspired and sometimes driven to tears by her heartfelt speech and witty remarks.
Born in 1934, Goodall embarked on the study of chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960, a passion that has been developed into care for a broader spectrum of species, and the environment as a whole, that spans more than half a century.
“I came as a scientist, and left as an activist,” she recounted, describing how she was determined to fight for chimpanzees after attending a conference in 1986, where she learned the miserable life of the often abused and misunderstood, with some being lifelong encaged animals, in Africa, who are as intelligent as human beings.
A girl from a poor family who had undergone adversity when the Second World War broke out, Goodall shared with the audience how she never gave up, respecting the full support given by her mother in the quest of her lifelong passion – the love towards animals staring with chimpanzees in Gombe of Tanzania. [FULL STORY]