Gombe National Park with its History, community and personalities.
The region near Lake Tanganyika is a habitat to ha community of Tanzania who crossed the sand many centuries back from West Africa and resided on the shares and nearby regions of Gombe. The region was also explored by the Arab and European explorers, each of them looking for loyalty in goods, legitimate otherwise, and popularity for the source of River Nile. The paths together with the surrounding regions of Gombe such as Ujiji and Kigoma have witness of people like Livingstone, Stanley,, Burton and Speke and possibly several others who did not make it in the historical records.

With the end of the First World War, and the Tanzania province under the British Protectorate, the colonizers begun to strongly strers preservation. Gombe stream National Reserve was gazetted to protect the vegetation of the forest together with the chimpanzees along with it. In the 1960s Jane Goodall found various challenges while working with chimps, who happened to be deceptive and shunning. However, thngs turned the other way round and one nice day in the year 1961, Jane Goodall realized that the one and only way to attract the chimpanzees was by giving them bananas. Jane Goodall carried on her interactions with the chimpanzees by giving them bananas and in turn, she could get nearer to them, enabling her to study up the ways of the chimp close and personal. Jane Good all’s activity got attention from the public and helped in uplifting Gombe to the level of the park.

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