Michael "Nick" Nichols. Letters from Jane.

Dr. Jane Goodall, photographed in her home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, would write 20-30 letters a day to further her goals of protecting chimps, their rights and habitat. Jane uses her 'touch' to empower the individual into thinking that what they do can make a difference. The force of her personality makes it impossible to say no. She learnedfrom Flo (a high-ranking female chimp at Gombe) that paying attention to the individual gets results. Michael “Nick” Nichols is a wildlife journalist; his narratives are epics where the protagonists are lions, elephants, tigers, and chimps. Scientist-conservationists like Jane Goodall, J. Michael Fay, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Craig Packer are all in featured roles. He came to the magazine with the legacy of a childhood spent in the woods of his native Alabama, reading Tarzan and John Carter of Mars adventures. Nichols became a staff photographer for National Geographic magazine in 1996 and was named Editor-at-Large for photography in 2008. Follo