Jane Goodall, famous primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the famous primatologist and conservationist, has died, according to the conservation institute she founded. She was 91 years old.

“The Jane Goodall Institute learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall Dbe, Messenger of the UN Peace and the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute died due to natural causes”, the Institute Said on social networks. “She was in California as part of her oratory tour in the United States.”

The “discoveries of the British primatologist as Ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless defender of the protection and restoration of our natural world,” according to the institute.

Goodall was only 26 years old when he first entered in Tanzania and began his important research on Chimpanzees in nature. Throughout his study of the species, Goodall showed that primates show a variety of behaviors similar to humans, such as communicating, developing individual personalities and making and using their own tools.

Among the most surprising discoveries that Goodall made when the investigation began were “how we seem” the chimpanzees, he told ABC News in 2020.

“His behavior, with his gestures, kissing, hugging, taken from his hands and giving palmaditas on his back,” he said. “… the fact that they can actually be violent and brutal and have a kind of war, but also loving an altruistic.

This discovery is considered one of the achievements of the scholarship of the twentieth century, according to the Jane Goodall Institute.

Goodall’s love for animals began practically at birth, he told ABC News. When I was a child, I dreamed of traveling to Africa and living among wildlife. When he was 10 years old, he read the books “Doctor Dolittle” and “Tarzan”, and inspiration changed the trajectory of his life.

The initial arrival at Gombe National Park turned out to be a challenge. The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick and the threats of buffalo and the leopards stalked in the desert. But his lifelong ambition had finally been done, and Goodall knew that he was where he was destined to be.

“It was what I always dreamed of,” he told ABC News.

Goodall’s research obtained scientific honors and conventional fame, and the way for an increase in women who pursue races in Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) over the years was attributed to him. The number of women in Stem has increased from 7% to 26% in the last six decades, according to The Jane Goodall Institutewhich cited information from the census from 1970 to 2011.

The anthropologist continued to lend his voice to the environmental causes in his 80s and 90s.

In 2019, Goodall recognized the climatic crisis and the importance of mitigating greater warming, telling ABC News that the planet is “in danger.”

“We are definitely at a point where we need to make something happen,” he said. “We are in danger. We have a time window. I’m quite sure we do it. But we have to take action.”

Goodall even associated with Apple in 2022 to encourage customers to recycle their devices to reduce individual carbon footprint and reduce unnecessary mineral mining worldwide.

“Yes, people need to make money, but it is possible to make money without destroying the planet,” Goodall told ABC News at that time. “We have gone so far to destroy the planet that is shocking.”

Goodall emphasized in 2020 that there is still much to learn from “our closest relatives.”

“They are still teaching us,” he said during the anniversary of the Diamond Jubilee to study the species.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Goodall raised the hypothesis that humans brought an outbreak of themselves, since bats were the suspicious conductor of the contraction of the cross-species of the virus.

“We have disrespected the natural world. We’ve disrespected animals, and we’ve been cutting download forests. Animals have been driven into closer contact with peple. Animals have been hunted, killed and eaten. They’ve been Animals of Different Species Have Been Crowded Together in The Wild Animal Meat Markets in Asia, Bush Meat Markets in Africa, and This Create Fantastic Environment for a virus or bacteria, virus in this case, to jump from an animal to a person. “

Goodall’s place in the history of pop culture was further consolidated in 2022 when Mattel announced a Barbie Doll Special Edition Dedicated to the conservationist to commemorate the 62th anniversary of its first visit to the Gombe National Park of Tanzania.

“All my career, I wanted to help inspire children to be curious and explore the world around them,” said Goodall in a statement at that time.

The doll is dressed in a chaqui and shorts, a couple of binoculars and contains a notebook. The wrist itself is also sustainable, made of plastic to the ocean.

The Jane Goodall Institute, founded in 1977, is now the oldest study of wild chimpanzees.

The organization continues to fight for the preservation of the natural habitat of the species and prevents them from extinguishing.