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Before Her Death, Jane Goodall Declared the ‘One Thing’ To Do To Save the Planet

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As people everywhere mourn the loss of Dr. Jane Goodall after her death at the age of 91, many are looking back on her wise words shared over the years, especially when it comes to how we can help the planet.

While Goodall had plenty of great advice, she made a bold declaration in 2021 about the “one thing” people can do to help the planet, and it’s quite simple.Ad

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A few years ago, when Goodall sat down for an interview with Parade to talk about all things primatology and conservation efforts, we asked her the question, “What one thing can we all do (or do better) to protect the Earth and the environment?”

In response, Goodall had a succinct and reasonable answer, and it’s something people should remember when talking about Goodall’s legacy.

“It will significantly help the environment if we stop eating so much meat. Or become vegetarian. Or even vegan,” she declared to Parade. “Why? Today, billions of domestic animals are raised in the horrific and very cruel conditions of industrial animal agriculture—factory farms. And it is not only the suffering of the animals that is of concern.”

Goodall went on, sharing other reasons why eating meat can be harmful to the environment, noting that industrial animal agriculture requires an abundance of land, water, fossil fuels, pesticides and herbicides, and more to bring meat to the table.Related video: World Mourns Jane Goodall: Details Emerge About Her Passing (The Hearty Soul)

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“During digestion, these billions of animals, especially cattle, produce methane gas—a very virulent greenhouse gas,” she added, highlighting a particularly dangerous issue with this process. “And the greenhouse gases are responsible for trapping the heat of the sun, leading to warming of the Earth and changed weather patterns.”

Earlier in the interview, Goodall gave another good reason to stop eating meat, explaining how she learned that animals are sentient and experience pain and fear, proclaiming, “Knowing that cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, geese, fish are all sentient beings is influencing many people to turn to a plant-based diet—or at least eat only meat from animals that have been raised and slaughtered in humane conditions.”

So, for anyone looking for a simple way to help the planet in their everyday life, consider following Goodall’s advice and remove meat from your diet.

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Only days before her death, Goodall was working hard to spread the word

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Appeals court to decide whether chimps in zoo deserve civil rights hearing

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MPRN | By Rick Pluta

Published October 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM EDT

Chimpanzee Jambo is introduced to the rest of the members of the troop at Zoo Knoxville. The process takes time as members are introduced one or two at a time, over weeks and sometimes months.
Chimpanzee Jambo is introduced to the rest of the members of the troop at Zoo Knoxville. The process takes time as members are introduced one or two at a time, over weeks and sometimes months.

An animal rights group is asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to order an unlawful imprisonment hearing for seven chimpanzees at a private zoo in the Upper Peninsula. A three-judge panel heard Tuesday from the plaintiff, the Washington-based Nonhuman Rights Project, in the first-of-its-kind case in Michigan.

The organization, which seeks to expand legal protections for animals to more closely mirror civil rights for human beings, wants the appeals court to order a lower court to determine whether the habeas corpus rights of seven chimpanzees at the DeYoung Family Zoo are being violated.

In this instance, the Nonhuman Rights Project is challenging the dismissal of its claim by the Menominee County Circuit Court. The group says the apes deserve constitutional habeas corpus protections because they behave similarly to humans when subjected to captivity.

The appeals judges questioned how a court decision would be applied if the Nonhuman Rights Project prevails.

“What standard do we apply that would keep out, I think, what we would all obviously think are not subject to habeas relief: viruses, bacteria, insects, snakes — I hate snakes,” said Judge Brock Swartzle. “… Where do we draw the line?”

Nonhuman Rights Project attorney Jake Davis said thfat question is premature because all the groups is seeking is for the lower court to hear its arguments.

“All we are asking you is for an opportunity to see if these chimpanzees can potentially achieve their liberty, and I think that’s well within the purview of this court,” said Davis.

The group wants the chimpanzees moved from the Upper Peninsula to a nature preserve with conditions more like their natural habitat. The DeYoung Family Zoo did not present arguments at the appeals court or respond to a message seeking comment.

Senate vote imminent: Act now to stop the owl killings

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 It’s the Moment of Truth for Barred Owls in the U.S. SenateThe fate of these raptors hangs not just on the actions of 100 U.S. senators, but the constituents who make their voices heard
By Wayne Pacelle

If Congress does not put the kibosh on the scheme to kill nearly half a million North American barred owls — purportedly to ease competition between them and spotted owls, who are look-alike cousins — it will set a cancerous precedent.

The deadly idea will spread. Our U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will start down the path of targeting and killing native species because they compete with threatened and endangered species.

This will turn the very essence of the Endangered Species Act on its head. The law, enacted in 1973, was designed to limit “taking” of rare species by humans. It is unlawful for people to “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct” targeting a threatened or endangered species.

The law was not designed to stop animals from competing with other animals, or even from chasing or harming other animals. It was not designed to stop competition for food or nesting sites, or impede other normal behaviors between dozens of native species in complex ecosystems. Competition is precisely the point of natural systems.

If the barred owl plan is allowed to proceed, the next step for the FWS might be to start killing great horned owls, since — unlike barred owls — they actually predate on spotted owls.

Perhaps next, the agency will start targeting sandhill cranes because they compete with highly endangered whooping cranes.

And maybe it won’t be limited to birds. If a mountain lion encroaches on the habitat of an endangered wolf, will the agency start killing mountain lions in an attempt to control such natural behavior?

Make no mistake, what the FWS is proposing to do with this barred owl kill is a novel misuse of the Endangered Species Act. And its proposal to kill barred owls, in this instance, is 1,000 times bigger than any prior effort by any government in the world to kill birds of prey.

The Plan Is Unprecedented in Other Ways

The “Barred Owl Management Strategy,” in the text of its plan, describes opening 14 units of the National Park Service for people to shoot North American barred owls. Crater Lake National Park, Olympic National Park, Yosemite National Park, and 11 other iconic sites will be turned into nighttime shooting galleries to hunt down the nocturnal owls.

The plan is a prescription for the accidental shooting of spotted owls. Why and how? Because barred owls and spotted owls are just about the same size, they have the same silhouette, and they have very similar coloring. Heather King, an extraordinary owl photographer and videographer, told me in an interview recently that she’s been “studying owls for 15 years, and owl lovers as well as nature enthusiasts constantly tell me of an owl they saw, and when I question them, they almost always misidentify the species.”

This Kill Plan Is Patently Unworkable

In a letter to Congress, Kent Livezey, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and author of 14 peer-reviewed papers on owls, wrote that he does not believe that “spending more than 1 billion dollars to kill almost one-half million barred owls is worth the carnage, expense, precedents, and distraction from what is the more-important issue: protection of biodiverse old-growth forests.” Livezey calls the plan a “never-ending, bloody game of Whack-a-Mole.”

Dr. Bill Lynn of Clark University, an ethicist hired by the FWS to design the Barred Owl Stakeholder Group, noted that “[b]arred owls will experience tremendous loss of life indefinitely, but this will do nothing to stop the decline of the spotted owl.”

Prof. Daniel Blumstein, from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, observed that “[i]t is likely impossible to eliminate competition across a wide swath of spotted owl range by killing barred owls. The area is too vast, and there are no barriers to entry to dispersing barred owls.”

And Dr. Mark Davis, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Biology at Macalester College, said “[i]t is impossible to exterminate all the barred owls in a region, and even if it were possible, they would be rapidly replaced by owls immigrating from the eastern and northern populations.”

Dr. Eric Forsman, who Livezey notes is the dean of forest owl biologists, told the Seattle Times: “Control across a large region would be incredibly expensive, and you’d have to keep doing it forever, because if you ever stopped, they would begin to come back.”

Unconscionable Cruelty, Unscalable Economics

Livezey observes that “a $4.5 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to the Hoopa Valley Tribe to kill 1,500 barred owls places the cost at $3,000 per owl,” translating into an overall project cost of $1.35 billion to kill the 450,000 owls as proposed. And that figure assumes costs don’t rise as owls become warier over time. “Costs would increase due to artificial selection because some barred owls may witness the shooting of their mate, escape, learn to stay away, and teach their young to do so,” he notes.

“Virtually all occupied spotted owl territories include and are surrounded by many pairs of barred owls,” he adds. “If barred owls were shot in one area, other barred owls would move in and replace them.”

Owls Need Your Help Right Now. Today.

Killing owls to save owls makes no sense. It is not progress. It is a diversion, cooked up by a small set of players within the timber industry to distract from the more serious threat to spotted owl habitats posed by some timber harvesting practices. It’s a bait and switch.

I pose a simple question to anyone at the FWS, whether the one run by the Biden team last year or the Trump team now: what bird species in the world have ever been put at risk by a different native bird species?

The answer is none. Nada. It just doesn’t happen.

The designs of nature are seamless. In the industrial age, it’s only the hand of man that has put species on the precipice of extinction or pushed them over the edge.

Any day now, the U.S. Senate is expected to take up S.J. Res. 69, a resolution that would nullify the FWS’s costly, unworkable, and inhumane plan to kill barred owls.

More than ever, we need you as a citizen advocate. Please write to your two U.S. senators and urge them to vote “YES” on S.J. Res. 69 to stop the barred owl massacre. And please forward my letter and this exhortation to 10 friends and ask them to reach their lawmakers, too.TAKE ACTION
S.J. Res. 69 is about so much more than protecting North American barred owls. It’s about halting a gross misuse of the Endangered Species Act, with the FWS turning it from a shield to protect native wildlife into a sword to kill native wildlife.

That was never the purpose of the Endangered Species Act. The FWS is morphing before our eyes into a wildlife-killing agency resembling the dastardly work of USDA’s so-called Wildlife Services’ program, which kills upwards of four million animals a year, mostly birds, mainly as a subsidy to different private industries.

And given the urgency of this policy issue, let me make one more ask of you: Please also call your senators and tell the receptionist that you want your U.S. Senator “to vote YES on S.J. Res. 69 and you do not want the government to wage war against North American owls.” Here’s the phone number: (202) 224-3121.

Send a group email. Ride through the town center. Shout from the rooftop. So much is at stake.


Wayne Pacelle is president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy and a two-time New York Times best-selling author.