National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for ...

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Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and ...

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six decades, she was the ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

The two met while she was conducting her chimpanzee research and he was working for National Geographic, according to her organization’s website. After their 10-year marriage ended, Jane remarried in ...

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...