WESTCOAST NEWS
Chimps' champion adds Vancouver to tour that aids kermode bears

Vancouver Sun

Friday, October 01, 2004

VANCOUVER - Dr. Jane Goodall, champion of the world's chimpanzees, is coming to Vancouver to promote the salvation of another endangered animal species.

Goodall has garnered international fame for the decades she spent studying chimpanzees in East Africa.

On Oct. 21, she'll speak at a fundraising event to support B.C.'s rare kermode bears, also known as the spirit bear.

The white-haired bears are found only on the coast of B.C., and their available habitat continues shrinking through development and logging.

Goodall is on a world tour promoting her Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, and agreed to a request from the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition to add Vancouver to her itinerary.

The institute began in 1977 primarily to support Goodall's work with chimpanzees, but has since been expanded "to improve the environment for all living things," her website says.

She will lecture at the Orpheum Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Tickets, from $25 to $30, are available through Ticketmaster.
© The Vancouver Sun 2004