Being an activist: Jane Goodall

What was Tanzania like when you first arrived?

When I first arrived in Tanzania in 1957 it was very undeveloped. There were not many roads, and there were animals everywhere. It was a wild place, the Africa of my dreams.

Today, there are many more people. There are roads all over the place. Wilderness areas around the world are vanishing as human developments take over. Animals are confined more and more to national parks. Species that are highly endangered - elephants and rhinos - are still disappearing at a horrifying rate due to the international ivory trade. And my little paradise of Gombe - it used to be part of a forest that stretched along the western part of Tanzania, known as the equatorial forest belt - by 1990, when I got a chance to fly over the place in a small plane, there was a little island of forest that was Gombe and it was totally surrounded by bare hills in the Tanzanian part