Ellie Goulding credits Dr. Jane Goodall with turning her “private obsession” with environmentalism into a lifelong mission. Over the years, the two crossed paths several times, with Goulding even serving as an ambassador for the Jane Goodall Institute in the U.K. She’s since become a Global Environmental Ambassador for the United Nations and a consistent advocate for climate action.

Just a day after the trailblazing primatologist and conservationist died at 91 of “natural causes,” the pop star and activist shares a tribute for Goodall with Rolling Stone.

They say never meet your heroines, but I’m so glad I got to meet Dr. Jane Goodall.

As I nervously approached her the first time, I think I was expecting a serious, slightly aloof conservationist. But she was breathtakingly real,

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