INTERVIEW WITH DR JANE

By Tashi Dolma B298 and Wangchuk Tenzin M280

Wangchuk: What made you to come to Nepal?

Dr Jane: Peter Dalglish. (laughs) He has been inviting me after the last three years and I knew him before and I knew with his work with street children, we talked about Roots and Shoots. There were Roots and Shoots group already in Nepal and I put Peter in touch with them and then he kept saying Jane you have to come these kids are doing wonderful job. ( Note: Peter has been teaching a Leadership Class on global issues and critical thinking every Wednesday night for the last three years.)

T. Dolma: How did you become interested in chimpanzees?

Dr Jane: Because Louis Leakey sent me to study them, and once I got to know them I found they were perhaps, next to human beings, the most fascinating animals on this planet because they are so like us.

Wangchuk: Could you share some of your secrets behind your success?

Dr Jane: I think all my success I could lay at the door of my mother. She was so amazing, she always gave this wise advice and she was very, very special and she gave me the most important gift, she gave me the ablity to have confidence in myself and to have an open mind. So if you have those two things, if you have an opinion and then you hear a different opinion and you open your mind to hear that opinion properly and you still think that you are right, then you can have the courage of that conviction and I think that that is one of the marks of success. Those two things.

I would also like to share Determination, Obstinacy, Never give up, Never give up, Just hang on to something, Yes, that’s very important too.

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