Nederland heeft 8000 goede doelen: salarissen van directeuren zijn schrikbarend hoog: Voor dierenwelzijns lezers een link naar dierenorganisaties

105.250 euro !! is het gemiddelde jaarsalaris van een directeur van een goed doel op fulltime basis. Het salaris varieert van gemiddeld 85.286 euro bij kleine organisaties tot gemiddeld 127.779 euro bij grote organisaties. Dit meldt Goede Doelen Nederland op haar website. In dit stuk een overzicht van de salarissen van de directeuren van goede doelen in Nederland

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Lijst in salarissen directeuren goede doelen 

• 100Weeks: salaris directeur (twee in dienst) €49.949

• 3xM: salaris directeur €95.888

• 75 InQ: salaris directeur €90.705

• AAP: salaris directeur €109.074

• ActionAid: salaris directeur 1( looptijd 2 maanden)€18.260. Salaris directeur €101.428

• Adra Nederland: salaris directeur €73.776

• Aidsfonds: salaris directeur €124.530

• ALS: salaris directeur €105.319, Salaris directeur €75.922

• Alzheimer Nederland: salaris directeur €148.796

• Amnesty International: salaris directeur €150.313

• Amref Flying Doctors: salaris directeur €126.980

• Artsen zonder Grenzen: salaris general director €123.346, salaris general director (7 maanden, beëindigd) €75.774. Salaris general director (1 maand) €17.141

• Autismefonds: salaris directeur €114.461. Ad interim: salaris directeur €36.076 (8 maanden)

• Bartiméus Fonds: salaris directeur €127.179

• Bears in Mind: salaris directeur €52.987

• Bijbelgenootschap, Nederlands/Vlaams: salaris directeur €133.412

• Bio Vakantieoord: salaris directeur: €144.193

• Bont voor Dieren: salaris directeur €46.979

• Nederlandse Brandwonden Stichting: salaris directeur €135.717

• Brooke Hospital for Animals: salaris directeur €90.653 (gebroken boekjaar april 2021/ maart 2022)

• CARE Nederland: salaris directeur €125.887 (boekjaar juli 2020 / juni 2021)

• Care4BrittleBones, St.: salaris directeur €71.051

• Choice for Youth and Sexuality: salaris directeur: €18.789 (4 maanden), salaris directeur: €43.068 (9 maanden)

• Christenen voor Israel: salaris directeur: €94.711

• Cliniclowns: salaris directeur €155.757

• COC: salaris directeur €93.297, salaris directeur: €56.996

• Cordaid: salaris ceo €152.009, salaris cfo: €132.177(12 maanden), salaris coo: €36.168 (3 maanden)

• Nederlandse Cystic Fibrosis Stichting: salaris directeur €138.927

• Diabetes Fonds: salaris oud directeur €134.990

• Dierenambulance Amsterdam: salaris directeur: €101.388

• Dierenbescherming: salaris directeur €153.000

• Dierenlot: salaris directeur €98.340, salaris directeur €98.340 (beide 89% aanstelling)

• DOA: salaris directeur €99.651

• Dokters van de Wereld: salaris oud directeur: €91.398

• Dream4Kids salaris directeur: €51.426

• Edukans: salaris directeur €70.544 (60 procent aanstelling, 10 maanden), salaris directeur €33.194 (3 maanden)

• Epilepsiefonds: salaris directeur €120.576

• European Cultural Foundation: salaris directeur €164.314

• Erasmus MC Foundation: salaris directeur €84.342

• Esther Vergeer Foundation: salaris directeur €102.469

• Evangelische Hogeschool Amersfoort: salaris directeur €102.581 (gebroken boekjaar, juli 2020 tot juni 2021)

• Eye Care Foundation: salaris directeur €103.172

• Exodus Nederland: salaris directeur €129.622

• Fietsersbond: salaris directeur €110.753

• Foodwatch Nederland: salaris directeur €76.706

• Nederlandse Stichting voor het Gehandicapte Kind: salaris directeur €109.591

• Gehandicaptensport: salaris directeur €119.663

• Gelderse Landschap en Kasteelen: salaris directeur €151.577

• Greenpeace Nederland: salaris directeur €100.000, salaris directeur €84.000 (90 procent aanstelling)

• GZB: salaris directeur €91.895

• Habitat for Humanity Nederland: salaris directeur €100.686

• Handicap NL: salaris directeur €136.193

• Hartstichting: salaris directeur €194.775

• Hervormd-Gereformeerde Jeugdbond: salaris directeur €90.372

• Heifer Nederland: salaris directeur €78.644 (gebroken boekjaar van 1 juli 2020 tot 30 juni 2021)

• Hersenstichting: salaris directeur €130.959

• Hoge Veluwe Fonds: salaris directeur €82.550

• De Hollandsche Molen: salaris directeur €82.597

• HomePlan: salaris directeur €63.676

• Koninklijke Hondenbescherming: salaris directeur €73.585

• Hulphond Nederland: salaris directeur €134.191 , directeur marketing en commercie €141.179

• Humanistisch Verbond: salaris directeur €29.280 (3 maanden), salaris oud-directeur €51.373 (3 maanden), salaris interim-directeur €108.356 (7 maanden)

• Vereniging Humanitas: salaris directeur €151.203

• IMC Weekendschool salaris directeur operationele zaken: €79.027 (80 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur strategie: €91.149

• International Campaign for Tibet: salaris directeur €92.831 (10 maanden), salaris directeur €20.282 (3 maanden)

• International Justice Mission: salaris directeur €80.707

• It4Kids: salaris directeur €70.346

• IZB: salaris directeur €109.328

• Jane Goodall Instituut: salaris directeur €52.738 (90 procent aanstelling)

• Jantje Beton: salaris directeur €148.248

• JDRF: salaris directeur €95.873 (gebroken boekjaar van 1 juli 2020 tot 31 juni 2021)

• Join for Joy: salaris directeur €39.690 (70 procent aanstelling)

• Kansfonds: salaris directeur € 150.122

• Kerk in Actie: salaris directeur €155.000

• Kinderfonds MAMAS: salaris directeur €109.903

• Nationaal Fonds Kinderhulp: salaris directeur €131.162

• Kinderpostzegels Nederland: salaris directeur €102.268

• KNCV Tuberculosefonds: salaris directeur €181.162

• KNGF Geleidehonden: salaris directeur €136.874

• KNRM: salaris directeur €185.000

• KWF Kankerbestrijding: salaris directeur €170.997, salaris directeur €53.621 (63 procent aanstelling, 7 maanden)

• Landschap Noord-Holland: salaris directeur €135.178

• Lawyers for Lawyers: salaris directeur €43.700 (80 procent aanstelling)

• Leger des Heils: salaris directeur €137.914, salaris directeur operationeel €125.487

• Leprastichting: salaris directeur €136.453

• Leprazending Nederland: salaris directeur €96.492

• Stichting De Liedjesfabriek: salaris directeur €11.500 (20 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur €11.500 (20 procent aanstelling)

• Liliane Fonds: salaris directeur €138.290, salaris interim-directeur €23.157 (60 procent aanstelling, 2 maanden)

• Living Memories: salaris directeur €46.933

• Longfonds: salaris directeur €192.594

• Look Good Feel Better: salaris directeur €63.339

• Maag Lever Darm Stichting: salaris directeur €114.752

• Make-A-Wish: salaris directeur €154.746

• MAF: salaris directeur €81.403 (74 procent aanstelling)

• Mama Cash: salaris directeur €124.977

• Medair: salaris directeur €25.021

• Met je Hart: salaris directeur €49.918

• Milieudefensie: salaris directeur €103.093

• MIND: salaris directeur €81.180

• Mission Possible: salaris directeur €24.101

• MIVA: salaris directeur €138.290, salaris directeur: €23.157 (60 procent aanstelling, 2 maanden)

• Nationaal MS Fonds: salaris directeur €96.317

• MS Research: salaris directeur €125.943 (incl. 47.641 euro ziekte geld), interim-directeur €17.945

• Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds: salaris directeur €93.489

• Natuur en Milieu: salaris directeur €143.211

• Natuurmonumenten: salaris directeur €99.000 (6 maanden), salaris directeur €41.000 (3 maanden), salaris directeur financiën en bedrijfsvoering €115.000 (8 maanden), interim-directeur financiën en bedrijfsvoering €81.600 (6 maanden, 80 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur natuurbeheer €166.000

• Nierstichting: salaris oud directeur €162.878

• Oogfonds Nederland: salaris directeur: €106.570

• Open Doors: salaris directeur €94.945

• Operatie Mobilisatie: salaris directeur €46.778 (80 procent aanstelling)

• Oranje Fonds salaris directeur: €175.607

• Nationaal Ouderenfonds: salaris directeur €141.617

• Overleven met Alvleesklierkanker: salaris directeur €79.301

• Oxfam Novib: salaris directeur €152.019, salaris director programs and campaigns €132.444, salaris finance and operations €120.760

• Parkinson Fonds: salaris directeur €89.596, : salaris directeur 2 €27.120 (6 maanden, 60 procent aanstelling)

• PAX Nederland: salaris algemeen directeur €111.252 (95 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur €101.465 (95 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur €93.313 (84 procent aanstelling, 11 maanden), salaris interim-directeur €41.323 (78 procent aanstelling, 6 maanden), salaris interim-directeur €32.175 (68 procent, 2,5 maand)

• Plan International Nederland: salaris directeur €139.000

• Plastic Soup Foundation: salaris directeur €77.866

• Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds: salaris directeur €188.188

• Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds: salaris directeur €190.846

• Proefdiervrij AVS: salaris directeur €62.673

• Red een Kind: salaris directeur €99.266 (89 procent aanstelling)

• De Regenboog Groep: salaris directeur €121.840

• Reuma Nederland: salaris directeur €155.275

• Het Rode Kruis: salaris directeur €162.000, salaris directeur €149.000

• Ronald McDonald Kinderfonds: salaris directeur €139.963 (89 procent aanstelling)

• Roparun: salaris directeur €91.218 (9 maanden),  salaris directeur €32.875 (50 procent aanstelling, 4 maanden)

• Save the Children Nederland: salaris directeur €164.644, salaris directeur €125.109

• Simavi: salaris directeur €121.965

• Fonds Slachtofferhulp: salaris directeur €146.630

• Solidaridad: salaris directeur €134.583

• Koningin Sophia-vereeniging tot Bescherming van Dieren: salaris directeur: €53.215

• SOS Kinderdorpen: salaris directeur €150.971

• Spieren voor Spieren: salaris directeur €90.980

• Stichting Steun Emma Kinderziekenhuis AMC: salaris directeur €91.911

• Stichting van het Kind: salaris directeur €72.000

• Stop Pesten Nu: salaris directeur €15.000 (20 procent aanstelling)

• Tearfund: salaris directeur €84.922

• Tekenen voor Kinderen: salaris directeur €24.435 (80 procent aanstelling)

• Terre des Hommes: salaris directeur €75.019 (5 maanden, beëindigd), salaris directeur €78.256 (7 maanden), salaris interim-directeur €10.522. salaris interim-directeur €13.721

• Trees for All: salaris directeur €79.765 (95 procent aanstelling)

• Trombose stichting: salaris directeur €89.849 (89 procent aanstelling)

• UNICEF: salaris directeur €162.000

• UN Women Nederland: salaris directeur €3.025 (70 procent aanstelling)

• Vereniging Rembrandt: salaris directeur €142.422

• VBOK: salaris directeur €4.676 (3 maanden), salaris directeur €27.132 (9 maanden)

• Het Vergeten Kind: salaris directeur €130.146

• Vfonds: salaris directeur €133.391

• Vier het Leven: salaris directeur €71.891 (88 procent aanstelling)

• Vier Voeters: salaris directeur €92.911

• Villa Pardoes: salaris directeur €61.080 (5 maanden), salaris directeur €72.249 (7,5 maanden)

• Villa Pinedo: salaris oud-directeur €72.530 (9 maanden, 105 procent), salaris directeur €32.789 (4 maanden, 95 procent)

• Stichting Vluchteling: salaris directeur €147.174

• Stichting voor Vluchteling-Studenten: salaris directeur €136.859

• VluchtelingenWerk Nederland: salaris directeur €27.158 (2 maanden), salaris directeur €92.078 (66 procent aanstelling)

• Vogelbescherming Nederland: salaris directeur €120.218 (10 maanden),salaris directeur €25.949 (2 maanden)

• voordekunst: salaris directeur €78.097

• Vrienden van de Hoop: salaris directeur €104.047 (111 procent aanstelling)

• Vrienden van het Sophia Kinderziekenhuis: salaris directeur €77.646, salaris directeur €55.839 (89 procent aanstelling)

• VSO Nederland: salaris directeur €111.766(gebroken boekjaar april 2021, maart 2022)

• Wakibi: salaris directeur €42.625(50 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur €28.658 (50 procent aanstelling)

• Wakker Dier: salaris directeur €54.073 (78 procent aanstelling),  salaris directeur €51.973 (89 procent aanstelling), salaris directeur €56.074 (89 procent aanstelling)

• War Child: salaris directeur €65.285(5 maanden), salaris directeur €89.156 (7,5 maanden)

• Wereld Natuur Fonds: salaris directeur €142.087

• WereldOuders: salaris directeur €92.054

• Wilde Ganzen/IKON: salaris directeur €122.907 (94 procent aanstelling)

• Woord en Daad: salaris directeur €129.228

• World Animal Protection afdeling Nederland: salaris directeur €93.485, salaris directeur €72.480 (80 procent aanstelling)

• World Vision: salaris directeur €112.651 (10 maanden)

• Young Afrika International: salaris directeur €62.723

• Stichting ZOA: salaris directeur €135.254, salaris directeur €114.652

• De Zonnebloem: salaris directeur €158.213

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Video France must act now: 2 orcas and 12 dolphins are left behind in chlorinated water in the closed Marineland Antibes: read why location has stalled

A wild orca can cruise some 40 miles of coastline in a single day an aquatic marathon that knits together hunting grounds, family calls, and deep-water dives. But on the French Riviera, Wikie and her calf Keijo trace a weary oval of chlorinated water no longer than a sprinting track, the paint flaking off the concrete like dried salt on skin. Their world shrank overnight when Marineland Antibes shut its gates on 5 January 2025, forced closed by France’s ban on dolphin and whale shows. Now the country’s last two captive orcas circle a tank gone green with spring algae spectators gone, music off, future uncertain.

 

For decades, Marineland Antibes was a fixture of the French Riviera an ocean-themed amusement park promising close-up encounters with marine life. At its peak, the park drew hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, most of them coming to see the orcas and dolphins perform in tightly choreographed shows. But beneath the surface appeal, criticism was mounting. Growing awareness of marine mammal intelligence, stress-related behaviors in captivity, and shifting public ethics eventually crystallized into political action.

12 dolphins and 2 orcas are left behind in this small basin

Twelve dolphins and two orcas Wikie, a 23-year-old female, and her 11-year-old son Keijo remained behind. Rehoming plans, initially promised as part of the transition, stalled almost immediately. Despite legal and ethical responsibility falling to the park’s owner, Parque Reunidos, no clear exit strategy materialized. A small maintenance crew stayed behind to provide basic care, but the orcas’ environment began to deteriorate. Footage released by the advocacy group TideBreakers showed tanks lined with green algae, installations in disrepair, and the orcas swimming aimlessly. and that roughly 50 employees continue to care for the animals’ basic needs. Still, what was once a choreographed marine show has become a haunting daily loop two apex predators pacing the perimeter of a life they can’t escape.

Why Relocation Has Stalled

Initially, Marineland proposed relocating the two orcas and twelve dolphins to facilities in Japan and Spain. Both efforts were blocked. French authorities rejected the transfer to Japan, citing welfare standards that didn’t meet European expectations. Meanwhile, the proposed move to Loro Parque in Tenerife one of the few marine parks in Europe equipped to house orcas was vetoed by a scientific panel in Spain. Their reasoning: the facility already housed four orcas, including a newborn, and could not ensure optimal conditions for additional animals.

At the heart of this movement is Tide Breakers, a Canada-based NGO whose drone footage of the algae-lined tanks brought global attention back to the closed park. Their co-founder, Marketa Schusterova, has described the situation as an “emergency,” arguing that leaving the orcas in a crumbling facility risks illness, psychological deterioration, or even premature death. “After entertaining the public for years, we should still provide them with a clean and safe environment to live out their remaining years,” she said in a public plea. Their advocacy has galvanized a growing online campaign, bolstered by a petition and social media traction that spans countries and languages.

Honestly, there’s no single villain to blame for this situation. It’s something much more frustrating: a system that has ground to a halt. It’s a mess of red tape, buck-passing, and official inertia, where everyone seems to be waiting for someone else to make the first move. And this isn’t just happening in France. All over the world, we’re looking at concrete tanks and asking ourselves some hard questions about whether this is right, especially for animals this intelligent and social. We’re finally challenging the very idea of it.

So, what happens now? It all comes down to a simple shift in how we see them. We have to stop looking at Wikie and Keijo as property to be managed or a problem to be solved. They are individuals, with memories and relationships, who have spent their entire lives in our service. We can’t give them back the wild ocean, but we can—and should—give them something better than this. Surely, after all this time, the very least we owe them is a final chapter with some dignity, space, and peace.

Thousands of orcas and dolphins worldwide are suffering as tourist attraction. Stolen from the oceans.

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2 Orcas Trapped in Abandoned Marine Park Months After Closure

Rest in Heaven, Dr.Jane Goodall, a true guardian of creation and a legendary voice for the voiceless: ( who was this amazing woman?)

 

Photo:  Jane Goodall

It is with profound sadness that the Jane Goodall Institute confirms the passing of its beloved founder, Dr. Jane Goodall, at the age of 91. She passed away peacefully in her sleep in Los Angeles, California, while on a speaking tour across the United States.

A true warrior and guiding light for all animals, Dr. Goodall devoted her life to understanding, protecting, and giving a voice to the natural world. From her groundbreaking research with chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, to her tireless advocacy around the globe, she forever transformed the way we see animals and our responsibility to care for God’s precious creatures.

We were deeply honored to meet her in 2019 when she spoke at Los Angeles City Hall, an experience that left a lasting impression on us all. Dr. Goodall inspired generations to fight for wildlife, protect nature, and understand that even the smallest actions can make a lasting impact in this world. Her message was always one of hope, compassion, and unwavering commitment to all animals and God’s precious Earth.

As we mourn her passing, let us also come together to continue her fight to protect God’s beautiful creatures and the world she loved so deeply. May we carry her legacy forward with courage, kindness, and faith.

Rest in Heaven, Dr. Jane Goodall, a true guardian of creation and a legendary voice for the voiceless.

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Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who was seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park, has died. She was 91.

According to a statement on Wednesday, Oct. 1, from her eponymous institute, she died in Los Angeles of natural causes while on a speaking tour.

She is survived by her son, Hugo, and three grandchildren.

"Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” her institute said.

In a lengthy tribute, the institute added that her "life and work not only made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, but also of humankind and the environments we all share. She inspired curiosity, hope and compassion in countless people around the world, and paved the way for many others."

Dr. Jane Goodall in Gombe National Park in Tanzania, where her life's work was based, with a male chimpanzee named Figan.The Jane Goodall Institute/Derek Bryceson

It was Goodall's trailblazing research on the personalities and social interactions of the chimpanzees she so closely studied that changed how the public viewed its connection to the animal kingdom.

Along the way, thanks in part to her tireless public events, she achieved a rare kind of celebrity for her profession.

"We have learned so much," she told PEOPLE in 2020. "We've learned how alike chimpanzees are to us, which has changed science perception. In the early 1960s, I was told that the difference between people and animals was one of kind. We were on a pinnacle, and there was an unbridgeable chasm between us and the rest of the animal kingdom."

But based on her observations to the contrary, "that reductionist way of thinking began to crumble and now we have a different way of thinking about our relationship with all the other animals," she said.

From left: Jane Goodall and Leonardo DiCaprio in 2016.United Nations

"Hopefully, we can begin a new era of our relationship with other animals," she said. "But we're not there yet."

As one of the world's most outspoken protectors of the planet, Goodall spent years urging immediate action in the face of the worsening climate crisis.

Named as a United Nations messenger of peace in 2002, also worked for decades to protect chimpanzees from extinction.

Her fanbase included many in Hollywood and philanthropy, including celebrities such as fellow environmentalists and activists Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie.

From left: Prince Harry and Jane Goodall in 2019.
Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/Shutterstock

Animal Lover from the Start

Born in England to Mortimer Morris-Goodall, an engineer, and Margaret Joseph, a novelist who wrote under the pen name Vanne Morris-Goodall, Goodall grew up "loving animals" for as long as she could remember, she told PEOPLE in 2017.

She also had big plans for the future even as a girl. "My dream of Africa started when I was 10," she told PEOPLE in 2020.

Her mother encouraged her curiosity and quest for answers and a future unlike other young women at the time, telling her, "'If you really want this … you'll find a way,'" Goodall said. "And I did."

"I decided I would have to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them," she said.

In 1957, she moved to Kenya where she sought out a famed anthropologist and paleontologist, Louis Leakey, who hired her as his secretary.

Seeing so much promise in her intelligence and drive, he sent her to London to study primate behavior with renowned primatologists.

In 1960, she began what would become her life's work when Leakey sent her to Tanzania in East Africa to study chimpanzees in the wild.

Even though her father had given her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee as a child, which she kept and cherished until her death, she didn't necessarily want to study them.

Jane Goodall: My Life in Pictures

"I was in love with elephants," she told PEOPLE. "It was just that [Leakey] offered me chimps, which fit into what I see as the mission of my life."

In July 1960, at age 26, she traveled to Gombe with her mother because authorities at the time "wouldn't allow a girl on her own" into the area of conflict that had broken out in nearby Congo, she told PEOPLE in 2020.

"So my mom volunteered" to come along, she said.

Her parents were divorced by then, but her father fully supported the trip.

Major Breakthroughs in Gombe

Living in Africa wasn't easy at first.

When they first arrived, "I was off up the slopes hoping to find some chimpanzees," Goodall previously told PEOPLE. "Mom was left behind with our slightly inebriated cook to let air into our tent. In came air, but also spiders and big snakes and baboons."

"So there was poor Mom with these male baboons with their big teeth trying to get our food. People say, 'Oh, you were brave, Jane.' No. I was doing what I'd always wanted to do," Goodall said. "She was the brave one."

Her first breakthrough came four months later, when she was observing the gentle David Greybeard, one of many chimps she named, including Flo, Fifi and Frodo.

Watching David through binoculars, she saw him "using a piece of grass as a tool to fish for termites, then picking leafy twigs and stripping the leaves."

Sitting there in the quiet forest, she was thunderstruck.

"Up until that time, it was thought by Western science that humans were the only creatures who could use and make tools," she later said.

For the first time ever, her research also documented how chimps exhibited emotions and even personalities: "They are highly intelligent, like so many other animals, and they have emotions similar to happiness, sadness, fear, despair, grief. And a sense of humor."

Like humans, "They can be nasty, mean, brutal," she said. "But they can be loving, kind, and altruistic just like us."

She also saw how they were interacting in a complex social structure — comforting each other, kissing, hugging and building and using tools, all behaviors that until that point scientists believed only humans were able to do.

"They are so like us," she said.

In 1962, Goodall left Tanzania to study at Cambridge University, even though she hadn't earned a bachelor's degree.

She earned a Ph.D. in ethology, the study of animal behavior, becoming the eighth person to be allowed to study for a doctorate without a college degree.

That was just one of the barriers she crossed. She also became one of the most well-regarded ethologists in a field dominated by men.

She defied the beliefs of the scientific community at the time when she documented her findings about how chimps have personalities.

"Now we have a different way of thinking about our relationship with all the other animals," she said in 2020.

Two Marriages Were Enough

Goodall never wed again after her second husband left her a widow in 1980.

"Well, I didn't want to," she told PEOPLE in 2020. "I didn't meet the right person, I suppose, or potentially the right person."

Goodall first wed Dutch photographer and filmmaker Baron Hugo van Lawick in 1964.

She met him when National Geographic sent van Lawick to document her life in the forest with the chimps.

"I eventually I married him," she said.

They had a son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, but she and the elder van Lawick divorced after 10 years of marriage.

Jane Goodall with first husband Baron Hugo van Lawick and son Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick.
Walt Disney Television/Getty

In 1975, a year after her divorce, Goodall married Tanzanian parks director Derek Bryceson, who died in 1980 when she was just 46.

After his death, she was so busy with her work and her many friends that she stayed happily single.

"My life was complete," she told PEOPLE in 2020. "I didn't need a husband."

Leaving Tanzania

For two decades, Goodall raised her son and focused on the work she loved in Gombe

But in the 1980s, when she learned that chimps were being taken from the wild to be trained for the circus — or worse, to be used in medical research laboratories — she decided she had to use her clout as one of the world's leading experts on chimpanzees to help them.

In 1986, she made the difficult decision to leave Gombe.

First, she later said, she had to go see the chimps for herself in the labs.

"One of the most awful things I've ever had to do is go into the labs," she told PEOPLE.

"I don't know why they let me in actually but they did. And then the way I approached it, wasn't to reprimand them, it wasn't to tell them they were bad people," she said.

Seeing the animals "in 5 foot-by-5 foot cages with steel bars all around just alone" and dealing with "people those in white coats coming to inject them or do something nasty to them," she said, "just shattered me."

With the help of other groups and Francis Collins, then the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the chimps in NIH studies were moved to sanctuaries.

In 2013, Collins and the NIH retired more than 300 of the chimps it was using for research, keeping 50 in reserve.

Two years later, Collins and the NIH announced that it was ending its chimpanzee research program and would retire the 50 chimps that had been held in reserve.

"This decision was made after a special task force investigated all research protocols and found none of the research was beneficial to human health," Goodall said at the time.

But, she told PEOPLE, "It makes me sad that it took so long. There was so much suffering involved. But very grateful to Francis Collins for making that decision."

Furthering Her Legacy

In 1977, Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute and, in 1991, started a Roots & Shoots program to encourage young people to protect the environment.

"They are the hope for the future," she said in 2022.

For decades Goodall was one of the world's most outspoken protectors of the planet, urging immediate action in the face of the worsening climate crisis.

She also wrote more than a dozen books, including The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times in 2021.

"I’m not afraid of death. Just the dying part; it depends what you die of," she told Maria Shriver a decade ago. "I don’t now what happens when we die. I just feel there’s something else. To me, death is kind of an adventure

She remained, until the end, resolute. Until she died she "traveled the world nearly 300 days a year," according to her institute.

"Around the world, people are waking up, and they're ready for change," told PEOPLE in 2020. "I have hope, but only if we [work] together. We still have a window of time."

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A victory for animal welfare: Canadian government has officially denied Marineland Vancouver a request to export 30 Beluga whales to a theme park in China

 

UPDATE: In a significant victory for animal welfare, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has officially denied Marineland’s request to export 30 beluga whales to Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, a large aquarium and theme park in China.

https://www.chimelong.com/zh/ Theme park in China

DFO Minister Joanne Thompson confirmed the decision, stating she could not “in good conscience” approve the export. She emphasized that allowing the transfer would have meant condemning these whales to continued captivity and public entertainment, a direct contradiction of Canada’s values and marine mammal protection laws.

Under the 2019 Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, it is illegal to breed or use whales, dolphins, and porpoises for entertainment in Canada. Exporting these animals now requires a special federal permit, which was rightfully denied.

We are relieved that these intelligent, social animals will not be sent overseas to suffer further exploitation. But the fight is not over. Canada must now take the next step by supporting the creation of sea sanctuaries where these whales can live out the rest of their lives in a more natural and peaceful environment.

This decision marks a hopeful milestone, but true progress will come when these animals are granted the retirement they deserve.

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September 9th: In a deeply disturbing move, Marineland Canada has applied for permits to export its remaining 30 beluga whales to a theme park in China. These whales are sentient, intelligent beings who have already endured years of confinement, and are now facing the terrifying possibility of being shipped halfway across the world to spend the rest of their lives in tanks, far from the cold North Atlantic waters where they belong.

Animal welfare organizations are justifiably outraged. This is not merely a relocation, but a violation of public trust, a rejection of scientific knowledge, and a betrayal of these beluga whales.

Beluga whales are highly intelligent creatures, capable of forming deep familial bonds, navigating vast ocean distances, and communicating through complex vocalizations. Confining them to concrete tanks is not only unethical, it’s torture. Now they will be sent to a country where there are virtually no enforceable animal welfare laws.

”We’ve long known MarineLand was intent on sending the whales to China but there’s no tank space yet at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom – which means the whales are forced to remain in awful and deteriorating conditions while Andrew Burns (MarineLand’s lawyer) seeks top dollar instead of prioritizing their welfares. Those animals need to be moved asap into better conditions or more will die. Sadly, there are no current sanctuaries to send them to so they’ll have to go to other facilities. Better and ASAP,” Phil Demers, Director of UrgentSeas, told WAN.

Once the whales are shipped overseas, Canada will have no control over their treatment, health, or survival. They could be forced to perform daily and condemned to a life of permanent captivity for entertainment.

The answer isn’t more concrete tanks, it’s sea sanctuaries, safe ocean havens where once-captive marine mammals can spend the rest of their lives with freedom, dignity, and room to live.

Canada’s 2019 ban on the captivity of whales and dolphins was a landmark achievement. Yet permitting this export would undermine that progress, signaling that financial interests take precedence over compassion.

For these belugas, every day in a tank is a day of suffering. But their story isn’t over. Their future can be one of hope, where they are given freedom instead of being forced to perform for entertainment.

The answer is clear: stop the export and build a sanctuary.

TAKE ACTION! Tell the Canadian government to protect these beluga whales from dangerous transfers by signing Animal Justice’s petition HERE!