V.O. Complete. Life lessons of an indomitable spirit. Jane Goodall, primatologist

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well hello good morning everybody and let me start by giving you a good old chimpanzee greeting and that means this is me this is Jane so I'm Jane Goodall and I think I started wanting to learn about animals when I was very very young and my first real experience of observing animal behavior and how to do it and how not to do it happened when I was four and a half years old and we went to stay on a farm in the country my mother and me a proper farm not one of these intensive industrial farms where animals are crowded into these terrible conditions but a proper farm where animals are out in the fields and it was so exciting cows pigs horses face to face and I was given a job of helping to collect the hens eggs and they were pecking around in the farmyard but to lay their eggs they went into these little hen houses where they also slept at night probably about so big and so I was collecting the eggs but then apparently I was asking everybody but here's the egg where's the hole on the head big enough for the egg to come out I couldn't see a hole like that and so what I remember vividly is seeing a hen she was brown and she went up into one of these hen houses and I suppose I thought she's going to lay an egg now I can find out for myself so I crawled after her and that was a big mistake and she flew out with I suppose squawks of fear and in my little four-year-old mind I must have decided now I'm going to find out this is the hens a dangerous place no hen will lay an egg here and there were about six of these little hen houses and I went into an empty one and waited and waited waited and finally I was rewarded and the hen came in I can close my eyes and see her now she raised up a little on her legs and flop out came the egg onto the straw and I don't know who is it more excited me or the hen so I'm really excited my poor mother had no idea where I was I been gone for four hours and she'd even called the police but nevertheless when she saw this excited it'll go rushing towards the house instead of getting angry at me how dare you go off without telling us which would have killed the excitement she sat down to listen to the wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg so I tell that story for a reason because there you have the making of a little scientist curiosity asking questions not getting the right answer deciding to find out for yourself making a mistake but not giving up and learning patience it was all there and a different kind of mother might have crushed that early curiosity and I might not have done what I've done I might not be sitting here now milady ensalada is the encantado de poder compartir este momento con usted no gustaría plun-darr a common peso thirst for more por la natural a face of repose for more protein Panthers so I was actually born loving animals I don't know where it came from and from the earliest childhood I just wanted to be with animals to watch them to be outside and I have this wonderful mother who supported my my love of animals so when I was growing up in England all those years ago because I'm nearly 85 years old now when I was growing up there was no television there were no laptops you couldn't Google anything and so I was learning from a being out in nature which is the best way to learn but also from books and I was absolutely passionate about books my family had very little money World War two was raging and we couldn't afford new books so books either came from the library but I found a little secondhand bookshop and I would spend hours in it and I would save up my few pennies of pocket money and on this occasion ten years old I found this little book which I still have and I just had enough money to buy it and it was called Tarzan of the Apes so of course I fell passionately in love with this glorious Lord of the jungle and / what did he do he married the wrong Jane and so I was very jealous well of course I knew there wasn't a Tarzan but that's when my dream began I would grow up go to Africa live with wild animals and write books about them everybody laughed at me you don't have money there's a war Africa's far away how on earth do you think you're going to do that anyway you're just a girl girls don't do that sort of thing dream about something you can achieve but not my mother again we come back to my wonderful mother and she said if you really want to do something like this you're going to have to work awfully hard and take advantage of all opportunities but don't give up and so as you know I did eventually get to Africa and have this amazing opportunity it wasn't me who chose to study chimpanzees I would have studied anything it was when I met dr. Lewis Leakey the famous paleontologists anthropologist that he asked me I think he was impressed by how much I knew from reading books even though I just come from England and so he gave me this amazing chance of going to live with and learn from not any animal but the one most liked us and my you know when I first got there the chimps took one look and ran away but eventually I was able to get closer to them and when did my ended by passion to work with chimps and saved them conserve them where did it begin I think it began the day when the first chimpanzee to lose his fear of me and I'd named him David Greybeard because he had a beautiful white beard and I was following him through the forest it was about after almost a year and I thought I'd lost him but I found him sitting looking back almost as though he was waiting for me maybe he was and I sat down near him and there was a ripe red palm not lying on the ground and I picked it up and held it out to him on my palm and he turned his face away and I put my hand closer and he turned around he looked directly into my eyes he reached out he took the nut and dropped it because he obviously didn't want it and very gently squeezed my fingers which is how chimpanzees reassure each other and so in that one moment we communicated in a way that must have preceded human language and we each understood each other perfectly I knew that he didn't want the nut but that he understood my motive was good and so it was that moment was incredibly special and I think that's when I decided I just have to carry on and learn all I can against me Lena simplify review chart a meet ok Marco Nantes in despues de acción de los hermanos anomalies for cuando usted servo chimpanzee manohar una Rama bharata Elemento for e explicar gnosis a momento I guess Indio cuando uno de los miles de schooling enters paraphilia Martin so the day when I saw David Greybeard again David Greybeard I was walking through the forest and I still couldn't approach him it was earlier but I could watch through my binoculars he was sitting on top of a termite mound and I saw his hand reach out and pick a grass stem and push it down into the termite mound leave it for a moment pull it slowly and carefully out and eat the termites off that were clinging on the soldier termites protecting their nest and then I saw him do this several times and then I saw him pick a leafy twig and before he could use bat as a tool he had to take off the leaves and strip the side branches so that was modifying a natural object and that's the beginning of tool-making and so quite honestly I wasn't particularly surprised because I've read things about a colony of captive chimps which told me clearly they were highly intelligent but at the same time I knew enough from all that I'd read and talking with Leakey that science believed humans and only humans could use and make tools and it was incredibly exciting because I don't think I ever thought I would see something like this especially so early in the study and you know I could hardly believe it in fact I didn't really believe what I'd seen until I had seen other chimpanzees doing the same thing it was the beginning of the termite fishing season and so then I sent a telegram to Louis Leakey and he sent a telegram back saying well as where to find us man the toolmaker we must now redefine man redefine tool or accept chimpanzees as humans and this was a magic moment not only because of the effect on science although many scientists at the time refused to believe that I'd seen it they said well she hasn't been to college she doesn't have a degree she's come straight out from from England and so why should we believe her but because of that observation Leakey was able to approach the National Geographic Society in America and they agreed to continue funding the research because initially we only had money for six months and they also sent out a photographer and filmmaker hugo van Hoek and it was his early photographs and the and the film but scientists had to believe what I was saying was true because there it was in front of their eyes and even so believe it or not there were a few scientists who said well she must have taught them I think I would have been very clever since they were still running away from me at the time but anyhow it was very special and it changed the course of my host ID siento Encantada in Reseda de poder hablar con usted de este muy pequeña siento una more muy especial por por los animales actually dad compart o mi vida con una Purita ya muy Maggiore Sierra Casey ama Cuba por la que siento especial de veau she owned Kop na stedy cerca de los animales siente nemo Sione's muchas gracias well that's a very good question and it was when I'd been at Gumby working studying learning about the chimpanzees for about two years that dr. Leakey told me he wouldn't always be around to get money for me I would have to get money for myself and for that I needed a degree and of course I hadn't even been to college but he said we haven't got time to mess about with a BA and so I've got you a place at Cambridge University to go straight to a PhD in ethology I didn't even know what he thought she meant and of course it just means studying behavior but I think scientists always like to make new words so makes them feel important perhaps at any rate I was very nervous when I got to Cambridge particularly of the professor's so you can imagine what I felt like when they told me I'd done everything wrong I shouldn't have given the chimpanzees names that wasn't scientific they should have had numbers I couldn't talk about them having personalities I couldn't talk about them having my minds capable of solving problems I certainly couldn't talk about them having emotions that the height of anthropomorphism attributing human-like qualities to non-human animals well okay here they were these wise professors but when I was a child I had a wonderful teacher and he had taught me that for all their knowledge in this respect those professors were wrong and that teacher was my dog rusty and you honestly cannot spend your life in a meaningful way with any animal whether it's a dog a cat a pig a bird a cow a rabbit and not know that of course animals have personalities you know that from your dog of course animals can think some obviously have bigger brains than others but of course they have emotions and they have feelings and they can they can know fear and pain and despair and so it was quite a while but today if you're working for a PhD you can actually study and more emotions and you know it's so clear when you're working with animals that they have emotions people often say well surely they don't have a sense of humor the best example I have of a sense of humor is the gorilla coco who was taught American sign language that deaf people use and on this occasion she'd been taught all the different colors reds and greens and blues and yellows and gold and so this young woman new to the study was told occupy cocoa while we get her supper ready so she thought well I'll ask cocoa and she picked up different objects you know what color is this it's it's golden brown what color is this it's black what color is you know different colors and cocoa made correct responses and then she picked up a white cloth and what color is this Oh Coco says science read Coco you know better than that red and then she says Coco if you don't tell me what color this is you won't get apple juice for supper so Coco reaches out she takes the white cloth she very carefully picks up a minut speck of red fluff and she goes that's just one example of many but it's a good one ole again me llamo Maria toda be a gente que consider a que los únicos eres intelligent a sell a tiara somos los seres humanos quería preguntar lay open Edisto aquaria preguntar a también se considera que podemos hablar de intelligencia de la natural Aoife intelligentsia de los animales laughs yes well it became very obvious to me that chimpanzees are very intelligent they don't only use twigs to fish for termites they use long smooth sticks they have to peel the bark to catch these vicious fighting army ants or driving ants and they push the stick down into the hole and then very quickly there's a great mass of biting ants they put it in their mouth they can only be there about one minute before they rush away and in some parts of Africa they use rocks to hammer open nuts so the in the wild they use many different tools and it's very clear how intelligent they are we know from captive studies chimpanzees and all the great apes can be taught sign language but it's not only the great apes and some other primates like the Capuchin in South America also can crack open nuts with rocks but we now know so much about animal intelligence and we know elephants are highly intelligent and lions and all the social animals really intelligent but it doesn't stop at that for a long time the scientists said well we don't believe the parrot owners who say they're parrots understand some of the words they say because the verb brain is structured differently and so they can't possibly have these kind of this kind of intelligence so in fact the first birds that really broke this belief were crows two crows that were being studied in Oxford and they automatically when they had to poke a stick with a hook on the end down into a tube and hook out a peanut and it was easy for them but then by a mistake one day the hook broke off and so there was a lot of frustrated stabbing and then one of the birds with beacon claw bent a hook in the wire and pulled out the peanut and this happened several times and the scientists said oh well it was just it was obviously just an accident but then it happened again well the scientists still didn't want to believe it some of them and so they said well there's only one of the two birds doing it so clearly it's just a peculiar bird but so why was the only one doing it the one doing it was the female and every time she pulled out the nut the male took it from her so the moral is if you have a wife why bother to make a tool but then you know I I heard about this parrot called and Kesey and we should not have parrots as pets but this woman and got PC when he was about three months old he was captive bred and she'd always wanted to work with the parents she was a jeweler not a scientist and she said well when you have a baby you don't pick up a glass and say glass and then when the baby finally it says glass give it a reward you just talk to it and so she just talked to and he's he and he's now 10 years old he has 1,700 words in his vocabulary and a word isn't counted as part of his vocabulary until he said it at least twice in the right context spontaneously so to give you one example of GC I first met him I walked into this little apartment she has most of filled up with a huge cage but he doesn't spend much time in the cage he likes to be on top of it and he can fly and so I look up this little African gray up on top of the cage and I must say I was feeling a bit silly and I look up at him and said oh hello kisi I've heard so much about you and he looked down at me and of course his his owner his partner Amy had been telling him about me and showing him pictures so he looked down at me and said that's Jane got a chimp and so that was amazing but my favorite story about in Kesey Amy rescued one of these iguanas big lizards from a pet shop and it died anyway and Amy is very emotional and very spiritual so this dead lizard is laid out on the ground with the box and she's going to give it a burial and she's lit candles and she has sweet grass burning and she's crying so Casey comes along to have a look well when Casey was young he had a lot of electronic toys used to love chasing lorries across the cars across the floor and that sort of thing so he takes a look at what's going on and he says try a new battery so we now know that birds are highly intelligent but then I carry these people with me and cows well they're crammed into these terrible factory farms but actually if you get to know a cow that's free living there they're just absolutely they're certainly very emotional they have very long-term bonds with their with their carbs pigs some pigs are more intelligent than some dogs and yet they're treated as though they're mere things but I'm going to ask all of you after this to Google not Picasso the artist but big castle and see what you find but then also there's now a whole lot of interest in studying the intelligence of the octopus which doesn't even have a normal brain it just has a sort of central nervous system and if you google that octopus intelligent you see amazing things they've now even taught bumblebees to roll a little bead and if they drop it down a hole they get a nectar reward so that's amazing enough but other bumblebees who have not been taught can learn to do the same thing just by watching the trained bumble bees so it's very clear that we're not the only intelligent beings on the planet but are we so intelligent the main difference I think between us and the other animals is this explosive development of our intellect our brain and I mean you know we've designed a rocket that goes up to Mars and off creeps a little robot which crawls around the surface of the Red Planet and takes photographs and we look at those photographs and although at one time it was thought there might be life as we know it on this planet that's not so and if you've seen the photographs you don't want to go and live there so how bizarre that the most intellectual creature that's ever walked on planet Earth it's destroying it's only home so we're intellectual but we're not really so intelligent and we seem to have lost wisdom and we're making decisions based on how will this help me now my family now the next shareholder meeting my next political campaign and we're not thinking about how will this decision affect future generations so this seems to me to have been a disconnect between this clever brain and love and compassion the human heart and I truly believe only when head and heart work in harmony can we attain our true human potential miyamura Figueiredo choice EcoLogo yes to MU implicado en tomas luka TiVo's yes por eso que most Ariana preguntar lay koalas la vision que usted tiene sobre el education actual Y como la Lucas healing for you stay and for magnifica Carrera whichever yes when I was a child I loved learning but it was learning through experience that was the most you know what I love best however I enjoyed learning from books I didn't enjoy school per se because I wanted to be out in nature but at the same time I was really fascinated to learn about biology to learn about I loved history and I loved English I always loved writing but I think I learned most on my own so when I was very young I was given by my grandmother a book called the miracle of life it's actually being reprinted now and it just goes through all the different kinds of animals and there's a it's not for children and there's sections on different tongues for different purposes you know the long Wiggly tongue of the anteater and different limbs for different purposes how arms can become wings in fact just this morning I was thinking how interesting to design Anatomy for an angel who has arms and wings which of course we couldn't do but anyway I I loved learning from this book and I would make the drawings and so education was very very important in my life education both from seeing observing and learning for myself but reading books I always loved books there's another important aspect to education in my life and that's when I got to university and as I said earlier the professor's told me I done everything all wrong and that animals didn't have emotions and minds and things like that but I was lucky in having a wonderful supervisor and at first he was well he was professor Robert hind that one of the top pathologists in Europe and at first he was my stunners critic but then he came to Gombe and he saw the chimpanzees and he realized I was right so I was so lucky to have him because he taught me how to express my brother revolutionary ideas about animal behavior in such a way that I couldn't be torn apart by scientific colleagues and for example I handed him a piece that I'd written for my thesis about the family of Flo and Fifi and their new baby Flint had been born and Fifi was always staying close to her mother and if any other youngster came near she would chase them away and I had said Fifi was jealous Robert hind said well you can't say she was jealous because you can't prove it and I said no I can't but I'm sure she was so what shall I say and he said I suggest you say Fifi behaved in such a way that if she'd been a human child we would say she was jealous now you cannot be faulted on that and I've shared this with many students but what I loved about this was learning how to think and write in a scientific way logically what I did not agree with right from the start is that to be a good scientist you have to be objective and you cannot have empathy with your subject and that that's so untrue and I believe the fact that science was made so cold and we were supposed to be you know without empathy I think that's why so many girls were put off science and of course it's absolutely not true there's a tape where I'm watching one of the chimpanzees we're her new baby had broken an arm and she didn't understand why the child was screaming and she kept cradling it which made it scream louder and it was the saddest saddest thing especially as that little baby had been called Jane and she died anyway but if you listened to the tape that I made at the time this tears pouring down my cheeks but every minute is an objective observation of what was going on and that's a really good proof that you do not an effect I think that empathy is very important when you're studying animals because you get empathy and you think I think she's behaving like this because she feels angry or sad or whatever and that gives you a platform from which you can then use scientific testing to see am I right or not I you know imagine camorrista me honest Devi face is yo por por mucho que la veo me Co emotion endow me gustaría que no se la se la chimpanzee Linda getting choked on Ella Bravo so thank you for the question and before I answer it let's have a look at the video this is a really exciting moment for me the Jane Goodall Institute's Jim Pongo chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo has for years been caring for infants whose mothers were killed mostly for the illegal bushmeat trade many of them are now fully grown recently we acquired three large forested Islands on the beautiful Quiller River where we can release many of the chimpanzees from our overcrowded center in here--if window and she nearly died but thanks to Rebecca she came back from the dead and here she is about to come out into this paradise she's the 15th chimpanzee to get her food and we hope ultimately they have about 60 on the island today is the first time I've met Wonder I talked to her on the boat trying to reassure her she must have wondered what was happening none of us could predict exactly what she would do once the cage door opened [Music] it was a very very touching moment one of the most amazing things that's ever happened to me the warmth of her embrace is something I shall never forget [Music] for wound de and all the other chimpanzees were working to bring here gin Zula island will provide a wonderful forest home where they will be cared for and safe [Music] [Applause] [Music] so now that you've seen the video I suspect that you can have some feeling of how it was for me in fact looking around because I know the video very well and I only need to listen to have the feeling I had but I saw many tears and that happens with every showing of that video we were all crying at the time and one of the Africans caregivers she said I wonder how she knew that you were responsible for giving her her freedom of course she didn't know but it was something I still can't understand it should have been Rebecca who saved her life twice she should have got the hug and yet although she went and Rebecca hugged her she came to me and it was I don't know if you noticed but in the video she's kind of looking around and she looks back and then she comes over and this it's much longer embrace than normal and you probably didn't notice but there's a little kiss on my arm you did notice and so it was just it was or inspiring and it was one of those moments that give me the inspiration to carry on aged almost 85 traveling the world 300 days a year and 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podium container saloon ultra story of the alien agenda yeah cambiado la vida well you know that question that statement that you just made it's just another reason why I know that what I'm doing is the right thing to do and it's very inspiring to me to hear what you just said there are so many young people like you around the world this program that the that I began in 1991 called roots and shoots that I think you know about in your part of it began with twelve high school students in Tanzania and it's now got young people from preschool not too many preschool lots of kindergarten very strong in university and everything in between and it's in almost 80 countries and there's about a hundred and fifty thousand active groups and there's also all the people who've been through routes and trude's in school in college and taken it into their adult lives so I know that this program which is the Jane Goodall Institute's humanitarian and educational program is changing lives and as you know we tackle three kinds of project to help people to help animals and to help the environment and for example now I meet people all over the world who come up to me and say that being in Roots & Shoots was a very very important part of their life and it changed the way they thought I was recently in China and I met several people who came up to me and said but of course I love animals because I was in your Roots & Shoots program in primary school so of course I loved the environment and care about the environment because I was in your roots Intuit's program in secondary school and this is happening all around the world and after almost every lecture somebody comes up to me and says you've changed the way I think so just two days ago in Spain somebody came up to me after a lecture and said well you've convinced me I'm not going to eat meat anymore and the reason that she said that many people have is because I was talking about the fact that because so many people around the world are eating so much meat all of these animals are crowded into these horrible factory farms and not only is it terribly cruel but to grow the grain to feed them environment is destroyed lots of fossil fuel is used to take the the grain to the animals the animals to the slaughterhouses and the meat to the tables and then water is wasted changing vegetable protein to animal protein and the when you food goes in here and gas comes out the other end and cows also burp and that gas is methane and that's next to carbon dioxide the most frequent of the greenhouse gases that are blanketing the globe and trapping the heat of the Sun that's leading to all this change in weather patterns all around the world so that storms are getting worse and more frequent and floods and droughts and I've seen the ice melting in the in the Arctic ice melting at a time when it should have been totally frozen and I've met people who've had to leave their Island homes because of the sea level rising so climate change is very real and this animal agriculture is contributing hugely to climate change and as a final little note the animals have to be fed antibiotics to keep them alive and bacteria are building up resistance and you can die from a scratch finger so for me becoming a vegetarian was because of the cruelty effuse I I don't want you to go and look in a in a one of these factory farms because I couldn't sleep for weeks and you wouldn't either because you love animals just like me so when I learned about it because I didn't know until I got back from Africa those factory farms didn't exist when I was 20 and next time I looked at a piece of meat on my plate I thought this symbolizes fear pain death I don't want to eat that and I'm sure you feel the same and once we understand animals so what you're doing with the cats it's just one example of how young people when they're encouraged by their parents and like my mother encouraged my love of animals in me then we're going to have a new way of thinking about these amazing beings with whom we share the planet and we're learning so much about them I'm sure you've learned a lot about cats and rats turn out to be extremely intelligent and these giant forest rats have been taught to detect landmines they scratch at the ground because of their smell and then the anteater the team's defusing landmines come and and defuse the landmine so you're just one of the examples of a young person who not only loves animals but does something about it and you're very lucky to have supportive parents like I did but it's one of yours is one of the stories that helps me to carry on so would you like to come and give me a hug you inspire others to imitate copy your love of animals and luckily children love different animals so as we have thousands of roots and shoots around the world they're helping so many different kinds of animals in different ways Paula Deen estoy muy emocionado encantado a squid Salus Astoria's que que no está con tantos una maravillosa Contador a deist aureus e10 dia las preguntas tangia muchas pero it important allows the cantar be know my story ax e que consejo de rio los ninos los inocentes predict y encantar grandes historias gracias well i think you can tell that i love telling stories and perhaps it's partly because i grew up with no television and reading books you could use your imagination in a way that's not possible if you see the story out on television and also because perhaps I've got Welsh blood in me and the Welsh are great storytellers and in my family we love telling stories and I think to tell a good story you've got to really feel it it's got to come from your heart it's no good just reading a story out of a book and remembering it and repeating it it's got to be a story that you have a personal relationship with and then it becomes very real and people often ask me if you meet somebody who thinks very differently from you how do you how do you get them to change their mind well of course you can't always get people to change your change their minds but I don't think if you're trying to change somebody's mind about some attitude towards animals for example it's no good arguing with them because if you argue with somebody after a bit they stop listening and all the time you're talking they're thinking how can i how can I refute this argument but so you've got to get into the heart and the only way I know how to get into the heart is to tell stories and I've seen that effect that it has on people and I'll give one example because it's not always immediately apparent that you have reached somebody's heart but I had to go from London out to Heathrow Airport I was really tired and it was 5:00 in the morning and I was going to snooze in the cab but the taxi driver apparently somebody told him that you know what I did and he said oh you people loving animals and not caring about humans you're like my sister and she keeps volunteering in an animal shelter and I haven't got any time for this and I'm you know going round to the pub in the evening and we all say well this loving of animals is just silly when there's so many people needing help and so I thought oh gosh I can't just let him say that so I moved on to the jump seat in the cab and talked to him through the window all the way to the airport and I told him about the chimpanzees I told him stories I told him about rusty and the dogs that I knew I told him how you know dogs can help people who were troubled and the relationship that we can build with different animals and when we got to the airport I mean it doesn't seem to make any impact on him we got to the airport and he didn't have change so I think I was owed about 10 pounds and I said well give it to your sister for the volunteer work she does in there in the animal shelter and I thought well he probably won't but anyway three weeks after I got back I got a letter from his sister saying I want to thank you for the contribution the donation you made but most importantly what did you do to my brother and she said he's been three times to help me in the sanctuary so if that isn't the power of storytelling and reaching the heart I couldn't have argued with him it wouldn't have done any good at all and when I was fighting to get chimpanzees out of medical research in these five foot by five foot cages it was no point arguing with the scientists who were doing the research but what I did was to talk to them about the Gumby chimpanzees and the lives they led and the the the family bonds between them and the peaceful hours that they spent grooming each other and the softly he beds they made up in the trees and showed them some film and gradually we got better conditions so that they weren't any longer in five foot by five foot cages they had to be enlarged and finally finally or of the more than 400 chimpanzees that were in medical research in the United States have been freed in two sanctuaries so sometimes it takes time you don't always get an immediate reward for changing somebody's mind but it's always worth taking that trouble not arguing aggressively but telling stories how do you tell the stories you've got to feel it in your heart you've got to live it you've got to be there in the moment like genuine llamo Christina es ningún dies mysteric ikana 30 por que vienen de hacer tatra who assisted to pero obviamente no puedo pero a negatory feast a ma su trabajo stava como pensado's tava stepantseva Kyra para ser la promised no por mujeres does this come up en sus to K equals Colcrys to kiss Eldred las mujeres en el mundo é que lo que tu ladarius una Nina guess at the end if you compress employer well first of all when I began working with the chimpanzees nobody done it before it wasn't something mended it was something nobody did and I was really lucky because Louis Leakey the one who asked me if I would go and study the chimpanzees he believed that women made better observers and maybe you know if we think about the role of a woman as in evolution what was the woman's job the woman's job was to look after the children and really to look after the men who went out hunting and came back tired and they cooked their food so because the woman was responsible for the child and perhaps keeping harmony in the family she had to have qualities of patience she had to be able to understand the wants of a little creature before it can speak that's our own children and she had to be very aware of the mood of people in the family because if the grandfather is in a bad mood then you must keep your child away until he's in a better mood to avoid arguments and so maybe we did have a built in an advantage from an evolutionary perspective I'm not sure but at any rate I think science is changing and now women are moving into scientific fields where they didn't before and I you know I just know I sometimes it sounds like boasting but hundreds literally hundreds of young women have written to me or said to me I'm doing science because of you and of course it's mostly in the fields of conservation animal behavior but I met one the other day who was a chemist and she said well it was because you moved out into a scientific world that was mainly dominated by men that I felt that I could do it too and so if I meet young women who really want to go into science but maybe their family doesn't want them to I just repeat what my mother told to me and I say you know if you really want to do this you're going to have to work really hard maybe harder than your male counterpart I don't know get good results in your exams and by and large women are doing really really well in in these fields and don't give up and you know I wish my mother was alive to know how many people have come up to me and say Jane I want to thank you because you did it I can do it too and so my my favorite story about the the man-woman thing in science or any other field it's a tribe in Latin America somewhere and I'm not quite sure which country I think it's Guatemala but I'm not sure and tribe of indigenous people and they told me how or the chief told me he said we think about tribus like an eagle and one wing is male and the other wing is female and only when the two wings are equal will our tribe fly through and I love that story that's what we have to aim for we have to aim for equality and we're moving a long way towards that at least in the Western world still a long way to go but we'll get there by working hard taking advantage of opportunity and not giving up hola mi nombre es Rose I assume trigger parameter aqui escuchando lo que esta la mano de los líderes mas poderosas del mundo creaky I Tobias parantha para cambiar la convinced ecological Armani de y por otro lado equality assume n surface over la naturally cyril on Telemundo well yes I have shaken hands with people around the world in high up places sometimes I shaken hands with people I would really prefer not to shaken hands with but it's important at the time but there are many scientists today who say that we've gone so far in the destruction of the planet was destroying the rainforest destroying the ocean the two great lungs of the world that absorb carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen and you know they the rather scientists fortunately who believe as I do that we have a window of time left when if we all get together we can start healing some of the harm we've inflicted I don't think it's a very big window of time and it's closing all the time we're recklessly using up the natural resources of the planet in some places faster than Mother Nature can restore them and it's because we've got tied up in this this materialistic world and we're worshiping the God of money and we're just buying and wasting and buying and wasting well on the other hand there are people living in abject poverty they have to destroy the environment in order to live we're destroying the environment in order to have more than we need and at the same time the human population is growing so how does it make sense that we could have unlimited economic development in a world with finite natural resources it doesn't make sense we have to have a new way of thinking about things we have to realize and people are beginning to realize more and more people around the world understand the harm that we're inflicting and so the message that I always give to the young people is just don't forget that every day you live you make an impact on the planet what I found is that so many people who understand what we're doing feel helpless and hopeless there's nothing I can do and so they do nothing and if everybody goes on doing nothing then there will be total ecological collapse but and particularly the youth understanding every day we live we make some kind of difference and we can choose what kind of difference we make so they may seem small choices what do you buy what do you wear what do you eat ask yourself where does it come from did it harm the environment did it involve cruelty to animals like in the factory farms is it cheap because of child slave labor somewhere and if you make ethical choices if it's just you it wouldn't make any difference but it's not just you there are hundreds then thousands and millions and if I'd been chilly hopefully billions of people around the world who understand that the cumulative effect of small choices can make start making this a better world and there are some people CEOs of big corporations or people high up in the government and their choice can affect hundreds or thousands of people with one stroke of a pen and fortunately these people these these powerful people up in government and business they often have children and children are changing the attitudes of parents all around the world I know you because I meet parents who say well of course I recycle my kids you know I have to they make me and of course I try and check that the produce I'm buying doesn't have palm oil in it these kinds of things and more and more people are becoming vegetarian because of the impact they understand it makes on the planet and so you know gradually I think the world is beginning to change do we have time I'm not sure if we have time but I live in the hope that we do and it's the reason that I'm traveling 300 days a year around the world I feel I was put on this planet with a mission and you know again it sounds like boasting but I give a lecture and I know that it changes people because they come and tell me and I'd much rather somebody else was sitting here telling you the impact that dr. Jain makes in her lectures but it's me and I have to say this because this is why I do it so my reasons for hope first of all it's the young people because you've heard from one young person over here and his help to the he's just one of now hundreds of thousands of young people and it's not that they can change the world they are changing the world they're doing projects to help the environment they're doing projects to help people to help the migrants to go into old people's homes they're volunteering in hospitals to take joy into the lives of camp children cancer patients for example and then my next reason for hope is this amazing intellect of ours and we are beginning to use it to to find ways of living in harmony with nature through our technological inventions I mean I met a young Dutchman the other day it was part of a company and they built a machine that they they built it in Beijing which is one of the most polluted cities in the world affecting not only the environment but human health horribly like our pollution does everywhere and this machine can suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and then you get a black sludge of carbon what do you do with that and they thought well diamonds came from compressed carbon so they've made a machine to compress this black sludge and they're making jewelry out of it so these are the kind of things we can do and then also we can use our brain to make choices in our own life it's only next reason for hope the resilience of nature there was a time when I flew over the little Gandhi National Park in 1990 and when I began studying the chimps there in 1960 Gumby was part of the what we called the equatorial forest belt stretching from East Africa to the West African coast across the center of Africa when I flew over in 1990 I was shocked to look down on a little island a forest surrounded by completely bare hills more people living there than the land could support too poor to buy food from elsewhere and that's when it hit me if we don't help the people to lead better lives to find ways of living without destroying the environment we can't even try to save the forests and the chimpanzees so that began the Jane Goodall Institute's take care or takari program improving the lives of the villages and that became so successful that it's now in all 72 villages throughout the chimps range in Tanzania and if you fly over today you won't see bare hills because now that the villagers are working with us as partners and understanding we're not saving the environment only for the chimpanzees and other wildlife but for the future of the people we cannot go on destroying the environment and not realize that it's going to destroy us as well but I've known so many places that we destroyed and give it a chance and nature can still come back animals on the brink of extinction can be given another chance and finally the indomitable human spirit which is why I carry mr. H mr. H was given to me 28 years ago for my birthday by a man who lost his eyesight when he was 21 in the US Marines and this man for some odd reason decided he wanted to become a magician it was told it can't be a magician if you can't see but if he was standing here nobody would realize he was blind he arranges his things before hands and afterwards healed he works with kids until the children something may go wrong in your life because we never know but if it does don't give up there's always a way forward and he does scuba diving and cross-country skiing and in fact we started a program in Tanzania for young people with disabilities and races with with wheelchairs and races on crutches and it changed the way disabled people were seen across ten yeah so the man's name is Gary horn and that's why he's mr. age and he thought he was giving me a stuffed chimpanzee and I made him hold the tail he said never mind take him where you go and you know I'm with you in spirit so he's been with me for 64 countries but the most amazing thing Gary Horn has done I think he's taught himself to paint and she's never seen mr. age he's only felt him and the little book that he's self-produced you can get it on Amazon it's called blind artists and by Gary Horne and in it is a portrait of mr. age and you'll be completely amazed so the indomitable human spirit I believe you have one of those indomitable spirits and the thing is each one of us has that same indomitable spirit but some people don't realize they don't understand that they make a difference that they matter as individuals that the world is open for them and so you know it's it's so desperately important to realize that every single day we live we make some impact even if it's smiling at somebody who looks sad or stopping to pet a little dog or to rescue cats and feed them and make sure they're okay or water a little plant that looks as though it's dying and give it chance to live so that's so important that every day we live we make some impact and I think all of us here want to make an impact on the world and make a better future for animals and for our own species Bernadine gracias por ayudarnos este momento tan especially gracias por compartir super Sione compromise Ocala Naturalizer yokore hasta bear como le gustaría state record ah de well I think I'd like to be remembered for tooth and the first one is to help science come out of the reductionist way of thinking that animals are just things that we are separated from them by a barrier and we just have this supreme position on the planet and in fact thanks to the chimpanzees my dog rusty science is now accepting that we are part of and not separated from the animal kingdom and secondly I'd like to be remembered for starting the Roots & Shoots program and bringing hope actually not only to the young people but to everyone I think giving people hope is so important all my books have hope in them and without hope we give up and if we give up and especially if I have children give up well that's the end when I look back over my life I realize how very lucky I was to have this supportive mother when I was a young child and I think we underestimate sometimes the importance of those early years of life and that real need there is in a small child to have a supportive family around you know it doesn't have to be the biological mother some some women simply aren't that they're just not suited to raising children but as long as there's one two three people in that child's life who will offer support and are consistently there for the child and encourage the child to learn by asking questions answering their questions by going out and exploring and I think in education today there's a big problem in that children are they're driven along narrow paths and they've got to take tests all the time and they're losing the freedom to use their imagination and to follow their passion and you know how important it is for parents and teachers to nurture the the difference in different individuals who can excel in this but a hopeless in that I was hopeless in a lot of subjects at school but I was lucky enough to have a mother who even if the teachers didn't care she did and she supported my love of writing which really has been so good for me and the fascinating thing is that when I got to Gumby I'm looking back over the years now we find there are good mothers are not so good mothers and the good mothers they're protective but not overprotective they above all are supportive and so a very low ranking female whose infant gets into a fight with the offspring of a higher ranking female if her infant begins to scream she'll run in to protect that child even though she probably knows that she's going to get beaten up by the dominant female and so we look back and we realized that by and large over the years the offspring of the supportive mothers do better the females are better mothers and raise youngsters who will become good mothers themselves and the male the male offspring they tend to rise to a higher position in the male hierarchy and they're therefore liable to sire more offspring so I think you know this is this is a really important part of educationists is early childhood learning and exploring and being free to develop your own personality in your own passion and I think people are beginning to realize as I go around the world it's unfortunate that children are spending so long now on their little mechanical gadgets rather than talking to each other it's killing the ability for storytelling so hopefully parents and teachers and the children can get together and I think in some countries and some types of school were beginning to move away it gives the children that freedom to developed their own passion and like my mother she got books from me about animals knowing that that I would learn to read more quickly if I was reading about something I was passionate about it and I'm sure she was right and so just as we need to change attitudes towards the way we treat animals towards the way we destroy the environment so we need to change attitudes and give children the very best possible start in life so that they can become a critical mass of young people who understand that the future of the world is in their hands and they have the freedom to make a difference every single day in the way that feels best to them that's our hope for the future [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] you

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