Jane Goodall died before the world caught up, Suzuki says

David Suzuki isn’t grieving Jane Goodall’s death — he’s grieving that she never got to see the changes she championed.

Suzuki, longtime host of The Nature of Things and one of Canada’s most prominent science communicators, says Goodall’s influence is felt far beyond the realm of chimpanzees.

Yes, that was her primary species of study, he told Canada’s National Observer , but through her work on chimp behaviour she linked “the fate of chimps and their habitat to the fate of humanity.”

“She used her animal of study to paint a much bigger picture, and that's what I really admired about her,” he said.

Goodall, the renowned primatologist and one of the most influential champions of the natural world, died of natural causes at the age of 91 while on a speaking tour in California on