Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist and conservationist, has died, according to the conservation institute she founded. 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," the institute said on social media. "She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States."

The British primatologist's "discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," according to the institute.

Goodall was only 26 years old when she first entered Tanzania and began her important research on chimpanzees in the wild. Throu

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