TORONTO – Jane Goodall’s friend Dax Dasilva says one of the most remarkable things about the conservationist was an ability to draw animals towards her.

Dasilva, a Vancouver-born entrepreneur and environmentalist, came to know Goodall in 2023 when they travelled to the Brazilian Amazon together to start a new branch of a youth conservation program.

They developed a friendship that saw the duo spend time in eastern Africa on Goodall’s last trip to Tanzania, in celebration of the 65th anniversary of the beginning of her groundbreaking field research on chimpanzees.

Dasilva recalled one instance when visiting an area called Saadani, where one of her proteges took up conservation work protecting elephants.

“We were driving through the bush in Saadani and a massive, massive herd of wild ele

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