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Goodall, Jane and Phillip Berman. 1999. Reason for Hope. Soko Publications Limited. 

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This text follows Jane's journey with chimpanzees, and touches on acts of heroism and acts of self-sacrifice, how her researches and students returned again and again to that way of treating others and the natural world. Jane writes about how while technology has helped her research since the beginning, it also - if used in a different way - can create weapons of mass destruction. Tech creates machinery that even while it serves human needs, also destroys and pollutes the natural world. I chose this text because along with what I mentioned she also writes about hope and what it means to her.

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Goodall, Jane. 1990. Through a Window. Soko Publications Limited

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From the reading I learned that Jane Goodall's research center trained Tanzanian field staff because they knew the land better than anyone else. While many stories of what happened, there was one Jane heard about her friend. They were beaten over the head by a man trying to find the petrol store. In stark contrast, Jane writes on how Chimpanzees, while they can be aggressive, don’t do harm with the intent of hurting others. She goes on to say that only humans are capable of deliberate cruelty, only humans act with the intention of causing another human pain.

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Peterson, Dale. 2006. The Woman Who Redefined Man. Dale Peterson. 

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This book was written by someone other than Jane Goodall so the perspective changed from first person to looking at her life through more of a window. The text opens by saying that when Jane is around animals she has a soft, musical voice, she studies how they speak, interact, and behave. She is patient beyond what anyone could imagine, and will sit in silence, barely moving a muscle for hours and hours. Jane creates a sense of deep relaxation, a natural almost hypnotic connection with both animals and humans.

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The global webpage covers everything from facts, to information about the life of Jane Goodall and her research. The website has links to where you can donate money, and support young children in Africa and around the globe. My favorite thing about the website is the interactive map, you can click on a location and are given a link to that country's website of the institute. Most of the information surrounds Jane's message of hope, and ways that we can continue her work of empowering young people and communities to help humans, animals and the environment. This source helped me understand more about how the institute functions well while having so many fields of interest.

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After listening to parts of a few episodes, and doing research about Jane Goodall's podcast, I learned that it focuses mostly on her achievements and goals. She meets with change-making guests and discusses hope and inspiring topics during hard times. Jane started the podcast in 2020, and is meant to be similar to a “fire-side chat” and the groups of guests she hosts are called the “conservation chorus”. While she does focus on her work she also covers the topics of the importance of hope to fuel action, the shared emotional lives of humans, and the power of a single person to make a positive impact.

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In the interview with One Tree Planted Jane speaks on how she believes in empowering young people to change things. She started Roots and Shoots with a few teenagers because she saw how young people were beginning to have a disconnection with nature. She also spoke about how she felt some responsibility to help, as her generation somewhat “stole young people's future” and this is how she wanted to give young people hope in hard times. This stood out to me just because as a young person, Roots and Shoots means a lot to me, even as someone who was never involved directly.

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Every day you live, you impact the planet

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Every day you live, you impact the planet

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Jane Goodall's interview with Ted Talk starts with Jane commenting on how everything that is affecting humans on this planet is connected to the destruction of the environment, which includes the loss of animals, habitat, etc. She says that we are disrespecting animals, and that it can be seen in how we kill, hunt and trap animals. In fact she has rescued many chimps that had been in captivity in harsh and cruel conditions. Later on in the interview she touches on how chimps are very much like humans, however the main difference is seen in how they express anger or frustration. Humans can decide if they will go out and kill or hurt people (for the most part), whereas chimps express emotions in the moment.

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This short interview asks Jane Goodall simple questions about her life, dreams, and work. Jane said that her biggest fear was not being able to gather a group of young people who “understand that, whereas we need money to live, we should not be living for money.” Connected to that when she sees young people with shining eyes wanting to tell what they have been starting to try making the world a better place for animals, humans and the environment she is filled with hope.

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This was the last interview of Jane Goodall before she passed away on October 1st, 2025. The interviewer asks “who would you say you are?”

“I was somebody sent to this world to try to give people hope in dark times because without hope we fall into apathy and do nothing. And in the dark times that we are living in now if people don’t have hope we are doomed. And how can bring little children into this dark world we’ve created and let them be surrounded by people who have given up. So even if this is the end of humanity as we know it, let’s fight until the very end, let the children know that there is hope if they get together and even if it becomes impossible for everybody, it’s better to go on fighting till the end, than to just give up.”

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In this text Jane introduces one of her many ways of empowering young people. The program is called Roots and Shoots, a youth-driven worldwide network of more than 10,000 different groups in more than 100 countries. An example the text gave of what these young people do is how a group of young people volunteered 131,000 hours collecting recyclables to buy water filters for villages in Africa. Another group of young people in California planted 1,000 trees in areas of Cali burned by forest fires. She says that as the effects of climate change are growing more intense and affecting more and more people worldwide she wants to empower young people now more than ever. She went on to say that she even started roots and shoots with young people, and that has changed how the program is different from most other programs built for youth empowerment, as it's fully made by and for those people who benefit from it.

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Research and Conservation in the Greater Gombe Ecosystem:

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Research and Conservation in the Greater Gombe Ecosystem:

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This text focuses more on Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees, but it also touches on the conservation aspects of the institute as well. She became focused on conservation after seeing how deforestation on village lands around Gombe reduced the capacity of safe forest for chimps and other wildlife. But for conservation to succeed a critical mass of people must think that conservation will have benefits for them. So Jane decided that engagement with the local communities was essential, both to educate people about what they might gain from the conservation/protection of chimp habitat around their villages, but also to find mutually beneficial solutions.

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“Imagine being shut up in such a cell, with bars all around; bars on every side, bars above, bars below, and with nothing to do. Nothing while the monotony of the long, long days. No physical contact, ever, with another of your kind.”  p. 227

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“To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins” - Jane p. 225

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“life is beautiful, with the crystal clear blue lake, the sparkling ice cold mountain stream, the palm nut trees, the comical baboons.” p. 179.

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“Why do we need yet another shopping mall”

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Jane says we should live by this motto, “Everyday we live, we make some [good] impact on the planet”.

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“were we going to go on destroying gods creation, fighting each other, hurting other creatures of this planet? Or were we to find ways to live in greater harmony with each other and with the natural world?”.

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“I mean I never liked the fact that lions kill - I mean they have to, that’s what they do.”