Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.