“It’s good to be back and see all of the improvements that have been made,” Goodall said.ĭuring the talk, Goodall paid tribute to her mother, Margaret Myfanwe Joseph, as having the most influence on her life than anyone else.
She last visited 15 years ago for the unveiling of a progressively designed gibbon habitat. It wasn’t Goodall’s first time at the Oakland Zoo. I like her determination and her love and compassion for the animals,” said Kamsi Okeke, 13, a Northern Lights School student whose family is from Nigeria. Goodall, the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) & UN Messenger of Peace, spoke to 100 Oakland Unified School District students, the Zoo’s Teen Wild Guides and JGI’s Roots & Shoots youth activism program students about her life’s work and stories of hope for people, animals and the environment. Roots & Shoots encourages young people to make positive changes in their communities. Goodall, 88, is the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 06: Northern Lights School student Kamsi Okeke, 13, left, whose family is from Nigeria, and other students and adults listen to Jane Goodall speak during her “Roots & Shoots” program at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. “Right from the beginning I was fascinated with animals,” Goodall told the students, who were captivated by the soft-spoken yet self-assured woman. She still has the toy at her home in London today. She had always been drawn to animals, and to Africa, after her father, Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall, gave her a lifelike toy chimpanzee named Jubilee when she was just over a year old.
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