I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.