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Hello, today in the opera Queen Frey's show, in my show, yes, we have a conference because she cannot be here with a real hearing, yes, she has dedicated 55 years of her life to study how wild chimpanzees behave in the National Park of Gombe.

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in Tanzania. She is also the founder of Jane Goodall's Institute and the Roots and Soots

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Program. And now a big applause to Jane Goodall! So Jane, we know that all patience has its

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beginning and we want to know yours. What can you tell us about the beginning of

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you, your beginning? What can you tell us? Well, so as you said, every passion has a

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beginning. So mine began when my father bought me this fluffy chimpanzee toy. I

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started getting fond of that stuffed animal although my mother's friend said

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that it was horrible that it would give me nightmares blah blah blah so that's

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where my passion for animals and nature in general came it's a lovely girl and I

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know you've been with chimpanzees almost all your life no so did you feel one of

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of them did you feel of their family yeah you know i have spent more than half of my life

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with those animals and after a while observing them and watching them grow i realized that part

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of their behavior and how they act with their families it's so so so alike human that it was

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like i uh once once i saw once that a baby was trying to go up in a tree and he was like

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and the mother was like laughing at him because he couldn't go up so i think that's why that that's

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the main reason why I felt they were from my family too because I saw them as humans sometimes.

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You just told me that they were part of your family but I suppose it was not that easy. So

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So, how did they react when you went there and started observing them one day and another, not only once?

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So, as you said, it wasn't right. Far from it.

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So, when I first arrived there, they were scared of us and they would run away when you got close.

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But by the time I returned home, they were so used to humans that you could walk meters away from them and they wouldn't go away.

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I mean, they would just behave normally like they would do if they were alone.

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So, it's incredible that they got so used to us and now we can observe them without bothering their families.

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It's amazing that we can stay very close to them.

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And we have also heard that you fought against the tree falling in Gombo.

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Am I wrong?

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No, you are completely right.

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Actually, after a while I realized that trees were being cut down

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and that entire families of chimpanzees had to move to unknown parts of the forest

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and it was dangerous because they didn't know where they were going.

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So I went to the outside world, spoke to them, I convinced them that they were destroying nature, and it wasn't right.

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And after that, the Forest of Gombe became a national park.

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It's amazing how we feel like we are more than other animals but inside us, inside ourselves,

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all the animals are the same.

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The only thing we want and they want is to protect our family and it's very beautiful.

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So now can you talk a bit about your cooperation with National Geographic because I think that

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is a very interesting point.

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So from my point of view I think working with National Geographic really helped me expand

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my project and my objective which was raise awareness of people that by destroying habitats

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They are also destroying animals, entire species, and they are going away.

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Some of them don't exist anymore and it's just because we are destroying their habitats

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and the nature where they live.

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So I think without their help I wouldn't have gone as far as I went with my research and

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I want to thank them for that because I really appreciate it.

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Yes, thanks for all those people that make easier the work of people who want the better for us and for our planet, for our environment.

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Unfortunately, this interview has to end here.

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Thank you very much, James, for your time.

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Thank you for inviting me.

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And thank you all for watching us! See you next program!