I saw this amazing tribute to the life of Dr. Jane Goodall and just had to put it in
https://www.facebook.com/doug.hajicek.1/videos/796209793215080
It’s a song a man wrote with words so true, spoken in rhyme, and voiced by a singer with music and pictures of Jane’s life that bring it all together. Almost in disbelief that anyone could accomplish such a thing, I remembered that this same man in 2001 had created the Emmy Nominated documentary ‘The Man Who Walks With Bears’ that aired over 70 times on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel over the next couple decades. As a teenager, he’d given a glimmer of what he could do when he became a millionaire by the age of 19. Another demonstration of what he can do was when he learned we had a chance for a den cam. He gathered his worldwide team of technologists, flew them to Ely, and had them connect Lily to the world through the Internet, and began the biggest phenomenon of my career. Two days later on January 10, 2010, he was on Good Morning America telling about the worldwide opportunity to learn the truth about black bears 24/7 through live video of a wild mother who would soon give birth and show the world how black bear mothers care for their cubs. By the end of that day, Lily the Black Bear, a wild bear quietly getting ready to give birth in a secluded den in a Minnesota forest was the number one search topic on Google in the world. By letting people know about it, he began the biggest worldwide outreach for bear education in history—an outreach that was joined by the BBC whose worldwide documentaries and a weekly TV series was broadcast from Ely to 250 million viewers in 191 countries, creating a worldwide movement for human/bear coexistence. The man is Doug Hajicek who says the den cams were the high point of his career.
Thank you Doug, and thank you on behalf of Dr. Jane Goodall.
And thank you all for all you do and have done over the decades.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center