BOURNEMOUTH’S world-renowned conservationist Jane Goodall had a chance meeting with a team of Dorset charity fund-raisers while both were on ambitious world tours.
Dr Goodall is travelling the world to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of her pioneering study of chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream in Tanzania.
Meanwhile Steve Moore, mission leader of the Follow That Fire Engine venture, is heading a team taking a fire engine called Martha on a world record-breaking attempt.
The two tours met in Chengdu, China.
Dr Goodall aims to raise awareness of the need to save endangered species and is meeting members of her Roots & Shoots educational programme along the way.
The Follow That Fire Engine team were 11,000 miles into a 26,000-mile journey aimed at raising funds for three charities – Macmillan Cancer Support, the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and the Firefighters Charity.
The tour is in memory of Wimborne firefighter Garth Moore, who died from lung cancer in 2009, aged 63.
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