Video above: Jane Goodall speaks at Global Citizen Festival 2024

(NEXSTAR) – Groundbreaking chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall has died, the institute bearing her name said Wednesday. She was 91 years old.

"The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States," the organization posted on Instagram.

A schedule of events shows Goodall was scheduled to speak in Los Angeles on Friday. • FILE - Jane Goodall plasy with Bahati, a 3 year-old female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, near Nanyuki 170 kms (110 miles) north of Nairobi Sunday Dec. 6, 19

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