Dying will be an awfully big adventure for pioneering primatologist Dr Jane Goodall, who celebrated her 90th birthday in April.
“I’m absolutely sure that death isn’t the end, but heaven knows what happens afterwards,” she says, making a distinction between her own belief and science. “There’s either nothing or there’s something. Can you think of a greater adventure than finding out what that is?”
Not that the woman who forever changed our understanding of chimps is slowing down or getting morbid. On the contrary, Jane is currently circling the globe on a non-stop speaking jaunt that would exhaust most ordinary mortals half her age.
In 2024 alone, her inspiring Reasons for Hope tour will visit more than 25 countries, touching down in New Zealand on June 10 for two shows. On average, this revered scientist and environmental activist spends around 300 days on the road every year, crusading to save our planet and its endangered wildlife before it’s too late.
“I guess I was put on this world with a mission, so I just have to carry on,” she says,
