--- title: Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched animals for years, writers w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goo… # Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers Lesson 284 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/0/) — Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched animals for years, writers who warned the world, and rangers who guard animals day and night. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/1/) — Jane Goodall sat quietly in a Tanzanian forest from 1960 until the chimpanzees trusted her, and she saw something nobody believed: a chimp stripping leaves from a twig to fish termites out of a mound, so chimps make tools. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/2/) — Rachel Carson wrote a book, Silent Spring, about how pesticides harmed birds, and it helped get DDT banned in America, which is where the bald eagle's comeback began. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/3/) — Heroes come in every size: a village woman planting a tree in Kenya, a nine-year-old boy in Germany starting a tree campaign, or you counting birds in your garden for scientists. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/4/) — David Attenborough has made nature films for over 70 years, showing millions of people the wonders of nature and the dangers to it; Blue Planet II made many people think about plastic in the sea. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/5/) — Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and found that chimps make and use tools, such as twigs stripped to fish for termites. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/6/) — Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children about nature, until she died in 2025. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/7/) — Steve Irwin was an Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter who loved reptiles; he died in 2006 in an extremely rare stingray accident, and his family still runs Australia Zoo and saves wildlife. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/8/) — Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and fought against poachers who trapped them; her work helped start the protection that saved them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/11/) — Dogs are trained to smell ivory and rhino horn at airports and in parks, and some find tiny rare animals for scientists; a dog's nose is thousands of times better than ours. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/13/) — Gerald Durrell founded Jersey Zoo to breed endangered animals, wrote funny books about his animal-filled childhood in Greece, and helped save animals like the pink pigeon of Mauritius. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/14/) — Felix Finkbeiner in Germany started a tree-planting campaign at age 9 that has planted many millions of trees; young people can lead big changes. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/15/) — Citizen scientists are ordinary people who count birds, butterflies and frogs and send the numbers to scientists; the Big Garden Birdwatch in Britain has hundreds of thousands of counters, and the numbers show which animals are rising or falling. - ← previous: [Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)