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« ISO: Electricity supplies should be enough for summer | Today | Station fire lawyers want to question Derderians » April 24, 2008Jane Goodall to cut ribbon on Hopkinton parrot sanctuaryHOPKINTON -- She did internationally known study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. She founded an institute, was named a dame of the British Empire and got the French Legion of Honor. Next stop for Jane Goodall: Hopkinton. On May 7, Goodall, the well-known primatologist, and a Massachusett state senator will do the official ribbon cutting ceremony to open the Foster Parrots Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary in Hopkinton, which a news release today says is New England’s first non-profit permanent care center for parrots and other exotic wildlife. Foster Parrots Ltd. recently moved to Rhode Island, and is now located in a building on the former Chickadee Farms on Woodville-Alton Road.
Goodall started studying of chimpanzees in 1960 at what was then called the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with her mentor, the anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. In 1977, she set up the Jane Goodall Institute, which the news release called "a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats." The institute also sets up conservation and development programs in Africa, and the Roots & Shoots education program involving tens of thousands of young people in almost 100 countries. Then-United National Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2002 named Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. She was reappointed in 2007. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsPost a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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