Alan Goodall

In his final honours year at Liverpool University in 1970 Alan Goodall became fascinated by the new research area of Ethology (Animal Behaviour studies) and wrote to Professor Robert Hinde at Cambridge University about research studentships in his department. His letter was passed on to Dian Fossey, who was then visiting Cambridge - and looking for a research student to help her with field work on the rare mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Central Africa. Alan's interviews went well and he was accepted by Dian and Dr Louis Leakey to join her research. He won a NATO overseas scholarship for a doctoral research project on the mountain gorillas. Alan's first book "THe Wandering Gorillas" was published by Wm. Collins in 1979. It had great reviews in the International press. It is now out of print - but, Alan has now published it here on Amazon as an ePub file. It is now in it's second edition with an Afterword "Tragedies in the mist - who killed Dian Fossey and why"

Since his first research there in 1970 Dr Alan Goodall has since been involved with Rwanda during various periods over the past forty years. His second book "Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda" is a photo essay of some of the major events he has been involved in during this period.

Alan is now retired and living in the mountains of the Southern Alps in France. However, he has still been working with the Rwandan Government in their rebuilding programme - particularly in Education and ICT - and he returns to Rwanda whenever possible.

He now has a web site at http://alan-goodall.com/

and a number of videos on his YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxO3c_uWjlrNFpTYUcbAKDQ