Primatologist Jane Goodall has died aged 91 after a lifelong quest to protect the environment. Photo: AP PHOTO

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91, the institute she founded says.

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Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post on Wednesday.

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionised science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of

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