Jane Goodall named a UN Messenger of Peace
Date: 17-Apr-02
Country: UNITED NATIONS
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will honor Goodall, 68, at a ceremony at U.N. headquarters yesterday
Born in Britain, Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika to study chimpanzees in 1960, at the age of 26. She won worldwide attention by observing the chimps for long periods of time alone in their isolated forest habitat.
She went on to found the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania in 1964 and the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation in 1977 to support her studies.
The mission of the institute (http://www.janegoodall.org) is to improve the environment of all living things.
Annan previously named Goodall to an advisory panel on the World Summit on Sustainable Development opening in Johannesburg in August. The summit's goal is to draft a plan of action for battling global poverty and disease through environmentally friendly development.
Other celebrities Annan has named Messengers of Peace include tenor Luciano Pavarotti, three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, actor Michael Douglas, French-Algerian singer Enrico Macias and author Elie Wiesel.