Renowned English primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall is to deliver a speech in Taiwan next month, the Tang Prize Foundation said in a statement on Tuesday.
Titled “Inspiring Hope Through Action,” Goodall’s lecture on June 8 would mark her first public appearance in Taiwan in seven years, the foundation’s CEO Chern Jenn-chuan (陳振川) said.
The foundation is assisting the Jane Goodall Institute Taiwan in promoting the event, in the hope of encouraging more people to join her in protecting the environment and conserving wildlife, Chern said.
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During the visit, Goodall would also be invited to tour the Tang Prize Foundation in Taipei and add her signature to the “Table of Honor,” where it would be preserved alongside those of other Tang Prize laureates for posterity, he added.
Goodall was the 2020 Tang Prize laureate in sustainable development.
Goodall, 91, was unable to travel to Taiwan to receive her award in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore, staff from the foundation visited Singapore in December last year to present the Tang Prize medal to her, the foundation said.
Meanwhile, the foundation announced that Jens Juul Holst, recipient of last year’s Tang Prize in biopharmaceutical science, would also deliver a speech at this year’s BIO Asia-Taiwan exhibition in Taipei on July 23.
Holst would focus on analyzing the revolutionary breakthroughs in the use of GLP-1 in diabetes treatment, it said.
The Tang Prize, established in 2012 by Ruentex Group chairman Samuel Yin (尹衍樑), is a set of biennial international awards to honor people who have made prominent contributions in four categories: sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, Sinology and the rule of law.
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