Dr. Jane Goodall's Impact on Wildlife Rehabilitation & Conservation

A tribute to the legacy of Dr. Jane Goodall

Our Executive Director, Morgan, had the priveldge of sharing a dinner with Dr. Goodall in 2018 when the Carolina Wildlife Conservation Center was just getting started. The biggest takeaway from Dr. Jane Goodall was that she didn’t expect any one person to save the world. She believed that the world could be changed by tiny acts of kindness and environmentalism as a collective unit.

Thomas Mangelsen, Dr. Jane Goodall & Morgan Rafael

Some words from our Director, Morgan on her experience meeting Dr. Jane Goodall:

Hours before I met Dr. Jane Goodall, I stood in front of the Grand Teton mountains and cried my heart out. It was 2018 and CWCC and was just becoming a reality. How was I going to change the world like her? How could I even make a slight difference? Saving individual wild animals is nothing compared to saving an entire species and inspiring and entire planet of youth to preserve our earth. Would it even matter in the grand scheme of things?I felt small and insignificant questioning if my contributions to conservation through wildlife rehabilitation weren’t going to make any sort of difference.

Then I sat and spoke with Dr. Jane Goodall. I heard her speak “every single little tiny step matters” then I knew my small wildlife rehabilitation center (that has now saved 11,000 wild lives) would make a difference. I realized that I didn’t need to save all of Africa or speak to large crowds; saving animals individually one at a time matters and is important work. It matters to look the finder of an animal and their children in the eye and plant the seed of conservation. To say "thank you" for saving this little wild animal that so desperately needs you; to let them know how a forest is also a home and the purpose of protecting the land - all connecting it to that little tiny animal they found in the road.

And that’s how we make a difference TOGETHER. Dr. Jane Goodall was just one person with a grand idea and she started a movement- that animals have feelings and emotions and are individuals. We would like to think we build on this idea- they all matter.

Dr. Jane Goodall Inspired the work of CWCC

Thank you for bring a voice to the animals and the planet. You will always be remembered in the hearts of many animals, trees and people alike, Dr. Goodall.