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   Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has   
      
   By  HALLIE GOLDEN   
   Updated 4:24 PM EDT, October 1, 2025   
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   Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking   
   chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has   
   died. She was 91.   
      
   The Jane Goodall Institute announced the primatologist’s death Wednesday   
   in an Instagram post. According to the Washington, D.C.-based institute,   
   Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking   
   tour.   
      
   Her discoveries “revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate   
   for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” it said.   
      
   While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented   
   the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to   
   be exclusive to humans, and also noted their distinct personalities. Her   
   observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the   
   1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans’ closest living   
   biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all   
   animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.   
      
   “Out there in nature by myself, when you’re alone, you can become part of   
   nature and your humanity doesn’t get in the way,” she told The Associated   
   Press in 2021. “It’s almost like an out-of-body experience when suddenly   
   you hear different sounds and you smell different smells and you’re   
   actually part of this amazing tapestry of life.”   
      
   Goodall never lost hope for the future   
   She had been scheduled to meet with students and teachers on Wednesday to   
   launch the planting of 5,000 trees around wildfire burn zones in the Los   
   Angeles area. Organizers learned of her death as the event was set to   
   begin at the EF Academy in Pasadena, said spokesperson Shawna Marino. The   
   first tree was planted in Goodall’s name after a moment of silence.   
      
   “I don’t think there’s any better way to honor her legacy than having a   
   thousand children gathered for her,” Marino said.   
      
   In her later years, Goodall devoted decades to education and advocacy on   
   humanitarian causes and protecting the natural world. In her usual soft-   
   spoken British accent, she was known for balancing the grim realities of   
   the climate crisis with a sincere message of hope for the future.   
      
   From her base in the British coastal town of Bournemouth, she traveled   
   nearly 300 days a year, even after she turned 90, to speak to packed   
   auditoriums. Between more serious messages, her speeches often featured   
   her whooping like a chimpanzee or lamenting that Tarzan chose the wrong   
   Jane.   
      
   “Dr. Jane Goodall was able to convey the lessons of her research to   
   everyone, especially young people. She changed the way we see Great Apes,”   
   said Audrey Azoulay, director-general of UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency.   
      
   Living among the chimpanzees   
   While first studying chimps in Tanzania in the early 1960s, Goodall was   
   known for her unconventional approach. She didn’t simply observe them from   
   afar but immersed herself in every aspect of their lives. She fed them and   
   gave them names instead of numbers, which some scientists criticized.   
      
   Her findings were circulated to millions when she first appeared on the   
   cover of National Geographic in 1963 and soon after in a popular   
   documentary. A collection of photos of Goodall in the field helped her and   
   even some of the chimps become famous. One iconic image showed her   
   crouching across from the infant chimpanzee named Flint. Each has arms   
   outstretched, reaching for the other.   
      
   In 1972, the Sunday Times published an obituary for Flo, Flint’s mother   
   and the dominant matriarch, after she was found face down on the edge of a   
   stream. Flint died soon after showing signs of grief and losing weight.   
      
   ″What the chimps have taught me over the years is they’re so like us.   
   They’ve blurred the line between humans and animals,″ she said in 1997.   
      
   Goodall earned top civilian honors from a number of countries including   
   Britain, France, Japan and Tanzania. She was awarded the Presidential   
   Medal of Freedom in 2025 by then-U.S. President Joe Biden and won the   
   prestigious Templeton Prize in 2021.   
      
   “Her groundbreaking discoveries have changed humanity’s understanding of   
   its role in an interconnected world, and her advocacy has pointed to a   
   greater purpose for our species in caring for life on this planet,” said   
   the Templeton Prize citation, which honors individuals whose life’s work   
   embodies a fusion of science and spirituality.   
      
   Charting a course from an early age   
   Born in London in 1934, Goodall said her fascination with animals began   
   around when she learned to crawl. In her book, “In the Shadow of Man,” she   
   described an early memory of hiding in a henhouse to see a chicken lay an   
   egg. She was there so long her mother reported her missing to police.   
      
   She bought her first book — Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tarzan of the Apes”   
   —   
   when she was 10 and soon made up her mind about her future: Live with wild   
   animals in Africa.   
      
   The beginning was filled with complications. British authorities insisted   
   she have a companion, so she brought her mother. The chimps fled if she   
   got within 500 yards (460 meters) of them. She also spent weeks sick from   
   what she believes was malaria.   
      
   But she was eventually able to gain the animals’ trust. By the fall of   
   1960 she observed the chimpanzee named David Greybeard make a tool from   
   twigs and use it to fish termites from a nest. It was previously believed   
   that only humans made and used tools.   
      
   She also found that chimps have individual personalities and share humans’   
   emotions of pleasure, joy, sadness and fear. She documented bonds between   
   mothers and infants, sibling rivalry and male dominance. She found there   
   was no sharp line between humans and the animal kingdom.   
      
   In later years, she discovered chimpanzees engage in a type of warfare,   
   and in 1987 she and her staff observed a chimp “adopt” a 3-year-old orphan   
   that wasn’t closely related.   
      
   Taking on an activist role   
   Her work moved into global advocacy after she watched a disturbing film of   
   experiments on laboratory animals in 1986.   
      
   ″I knew I had to do something,″ she said. ″It was payback time.″   
      
   When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 and halted her in-person events,   
   she began podcasting from her childhood home in England. Through dozens of   
   “Jane Goodall Hopecast” episodes, she talked with guests including U.S.   
   Sen. Cory Booker, author Margaret Atwood and marine biologist Ayana   
   Elizabeth Johnson.   
      
      
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