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It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
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Hampstead Village
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Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
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