The naturalist Jane Goodall has been announced as the 2021 winner of the Templeton prize in recognition of her life’s work on animal intelligence and humanity. The $1.5m (£1.1m) prize money “will make a huge difference to our programmes around the world”, Goodall told the Guardian. She said she was “humbled and overawed” to be awarded the Templeton prize, whose previous recipients have included the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Heather Templeton Dill, president of the John Templeton Foundation, said Goodall’s work exemplified “humility, spiritual curiosity and discovery”. If you’re really poor, you’re going to cut down the last tree in the forest because you’re desperate to get the farmer to grow food for your family, and land is getting scarcer, over-farmed, infertile.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2021 10:52 UTC