Dr. Jane Goodall's Message for World Chimpanzee Day | 2023

World Chimpanzee Day, every year on July 14th, unites people all around the world in celebrating the innate value, complexity, and importance of our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom - chimpanzees. The day honors the anniversary of the moment in 1960 when 26-year-old Jane Goodall first stepped foot onto the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Gombe, Tanzania to study these mysterious and wonderful beings, forever changing our relationship with the animal kingdom and the natural world. For World Chimpanzee Day 2023, Dr. Jane Goodall shares her thoughts as we celebrate our #ChimpanzeeConnection demonstrating the ways in which chimpanzees are so connected to us, other wildlife, and the natural world as a keystone species in the vast intertwined web of life. Together we will grow connection, understanding, protect wild endangered populations, and improve wellbeing for captive chimpanzees.
This year - the fifth anniversary of this powerful celebration - Dr. Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute global chapters are calling on everyone to rediscover their #ChimpanzeeConnection to grow compassion and action for closest living relatives in the animal kingdom!

[@CJR-sq5dw]

Thank you, National Geographic, for the funding. And thank you, Dr. Jane Goodall. ❤❤❤

[@user-bz7hb9vz7m]

Agreed.

[@shaileshp.karandikar173]

Thanks for information.

[@nancyhanson3472]

Sending you the warmest of greetings and love on this 5th World Chimpanzee Day, Dr. Jane Goodall. I hope that you know how much you have influenced my life and the lives of thousands of others all over the world since you first stepped foot on the shores of Gombe back on this date in 1960.
Like so many others have said in past comments here, I grew up wanting to be you.
As a child, watching your National Geographic specials plus the TV specials, "Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior" had a profound influence on my attitude toward the natural world and conservation. Although I never became an ethologist or primatologist, I was able to pursue careers as both an animal keeper at a major zoo, plus as a wildlife biologist with a federal agency.
I imagine that I have probably been to see you at least twenty times through the years, when you have given lectures in my area, and I believe that I have every one of your books.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your tireless efforts to help chimpanzees, and all of the other species on our beloved planet. You are truly an inspiration to me, and to so many others! 🌍 💙

[@OceanArtWildlife]

You often said that you carry the peace of the forest in your heart. I am lucky to have achieved that peace through connecting with nature but I wish that the young generation can find a way to let nature grow again, so that humans find that way, too. Thank you ever so much for all your kindness and helping nature.

[@user-bz7hb9vz7m]

Agreed.

[@LQOTW]

Thank you, Dr. Goodall, for the tremendously important work you have done on behalf of chimpanzees and all primates, in general. Thanks too to National Geo for funding research and preservation efforts for species all over the world.

[@user-bz7hb9vz7m]

Agreed.

[@jimenatroncoso9124]

Thank you my lady. I always learn when I listen to you. My respects from Chile

[@LindaC616]

Thank you, Dr Jane

[@ShawnGmeow]

How does this legend only have 35k subscribers? Kids today jeez.

[@clarak.mallah4137]

Happy WCD.

[@r1133rocco]

Thank you Dr Goodall! ❤

[@rminchrist]

Animals communicate with each other; lets not assume that words that we humans use is the ONLY way to communicate
Good work Daktari

[@parambakshi5856]

❤❤

[@sandrasmith6041]

❤

[@florencearnow279]

I LOVE CHIMPANZEES !! Thank you Jane for all you have done, and how important your work has been. It is important to keep chimpanzees in our sights and in our lives.

[@charliereed9925]

Thank for been there🦍💚🙏🏻🧘🏽‍♂