Jane Goodall: “We Don’t Have Unlimited Time' to Save the Planet

Jane Goodall has been at the forefront of the conservation movement for decades, helping to illuminate human understanding of wildlife and the need to protect it. But never has the challenge been as urgent as now, she told TIME.

Jane Goodall speaks onstage during Global Citizen
 Festival 2017 on Sept. 23 in New York City. 

"When I began there wasn’t any particular need for conservation the way there is now," Goodall said. "If we carry on with business as usual, it will be too late."

Goodall listed a wide range of concerns, including poaching and deforestation, as key issues affecting wildlife, but highlighted climate change as the threat with the potential to do the most damage in the long term. Still, Goodall remains cautiously optimistic, citing the passionate people she has met who are working to tackle the issue and noting that there is still a small amount of time to act before some of the worst impacts of climate change become irreversible.

Read the Time Magazine story - “Jane Goodall: “We Don’t Have Unlimited Time' to Save the Planet.”

Corporations destroying world's rainforests - Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is one of the world’s leading voices on climate change and environmental conservation.

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! had the chance to catch up with Goodall at the Paris climate summit last month

Read Cole Mellino’s piece on EcoWatch - “Jane Goodall: Power of Corporations Is Destroying World’s Rainforests.”

Collective individual efforts make the difference - Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, the British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace, who is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, said:

“One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference—all the difference in the world.”