LINCOLN PARK — Before she became a world-renowned ethologist and conservationist, before the books and documentaries, before the lectures, global awards and groundbreaking research, Jane Goodall was a girl in Bournemouth, England, climbing trees and reading stories about the distant, wild wonder of Africa.

As a child, she dreamed of living in the bush among animals. In 1960, at 26 years old, that dream carried her across an ocean and into the forests of Gombe, where she began studying chimpanzees in the wild — the first research of its kind.

“I have always loved the forest, but it was not until I actually lived in the forests of Gombe that I came to realize, in the most vivid way, that the forest is a living, breathing entity of intertwining, interdependent life forms,” Goodall later rec

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