Jane Goodall "
OTHER WINDOW EYES / / Miguel Delibes de Castro
* Research Professor of CSIC
I have been fortunate, at the invitation of Caja Canarias, Tenerife coincide with Jane Goodall. It is fragile and delicate as a bird. "Smile sweetly and making a joke of his right arm in plaster," I can sign my books, stamping ink fingerprint, like an illiterate. "The story shows his courage and charisma. Young people, especially the young, broke into applause as they saw it, and after his speech waited in long lines to this tireless woman, nearly eighty years, will sign books or agreed to be photographed with them. They were excited about an ambassador for United Nations peacekeeping transmits serenity and consistency in its actions. Jane Goodall is perhaps the best known scientific world for his research on chimpanzees in the Gombe reserve, near Lake Tanganyika, which continue 50 years after his arrival. Primatologists more grim criticized, it came to making friends of the individuals studied.
retold in Tenerife: it was enough to look into the eyes of chimpanzees to see how similar they were to us, each with its own personality, its branches, their phobias. That seemed far from the expected objectivity of science, but young field naturalists seventies loved it.
evidence of environmental destruction and species extinction Jane became an activist, who now travels 300 days a year giving talks and presenting books and movies. Requested that each day we devoted a moment to analyze the consequences of our actions on others and on Earth. When she did, for example (going by Frabetti), decided he could not eat meat, despite what he liked. Animals suffer in the barn, feeding destroys forests or leaves hunger to others, you need lots of water ... also chose to eat local, you know how far it goes a tomato before being sold in the Chicago market? 2,500 km of gas and pollution!
In his talk had demanded frugality and when the dinner Jane licked his lips in a glass of wine (canary, of course), tried a little cheese and some dried fruit, and retired to rest. However, before the authorities called attention to the Yellow House in Puerto de la Cruz, the first center in the world Primatological created in 1913, now in ruins.
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