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British primatologist Jane Goodall, who transformed the study of chimpanzees and became one of the world’s most prominent wildlife advocates, has died at the age of 91, her institute announced Wednesday.
Goodall “passed away due to natural causes” while in California on a speaking tour of the United States, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on social media. “Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” the statement added. Born on April 3, 1934, in London, Goodall’s fascination with animals began in early childhood, when her father gave her a stuffed toy chimpanzee that she kept for life. She was also captivated by the Tarzan books, about a boy raised by apes who falls in love with a woman named Jane. In 1957 she traveled to Kenya at the invitation of a friend, where she began working for the renowned paleontologist Louis Leakey. Her breakthrough came when Leakey dispatched her to study chimpanzees in Tanzania. She became the first of three women he chose to study great apes in the wild, alongside American Dian Fossey and Canadian Birute Galdikas . Jane Goodall in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, appears in the television special “Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees” originally broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1965. Jane Goodall with one of her research subjects in the Gombe National Park in northern Tanzania. Goodall’s groundbreaking observations included her discovery that chimpanzees use grass stalks and twigs as tools to fish termites from their mounds. On the strength of these findings, Leakey encouraged her to pursue a doctorate at Cambridge University, where she became only the eighth person ever to earn a PhD without first obtaining an undergraduate degree. In 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute to further research and conservation of chimpanzees. In 1991 she launched Roots & Shoots, a youth-led environmental program that today operates in more than 60 countries. Her activism was sparked in the 1980s after attending a US conference on chimpanzees, where she learned of the threats they faced: exploitation in medical research, hunting for bushmeat, and widespread habitat destruction.Jane Goodall poses with her mascott “Mister H” during a photo shoot on October 18, 2024, in Paris. “The time for words and false promises is past if we want to save the planet,” she told AFP in an interview last year ahead of a UN nature summit in Colombia. Her message was one of personal responsibility and empowerment: “Realize every day you make a difference.” “Each individual has a role to play, and every one of us makes some impact on the planet every single day, and we can choose what sort of impact we make.”Watch Live: Donald Trump Makes Announcement from the Oval OfficeTrump: Dems Demanding $200B for Illegals Over a Decade to Reopen GovtJD Vance Debunks Left’s Lies on Govt. Shutdown in Response to Breitbart’s Matt Boyle at WH Press BriefingBreitbart Business Digest: Why Wall Street and the Real Economy Yawn at ShutdownsMassive Chicago Illegal Immigration Raid Targets Tren de Aragua MembersPro-Abortion Sen. Dick Durbin Declines to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Cardinal Cupich After Backlash
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Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and conservationist, dead at 91Jane Goodall, known to the world for her work chimpanzees and support for conservation, has died at 91.
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Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and conservationist, dead at 91Jane Goodall, known to the world for her work chimpanzees and support for conservation, has died at 91.
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Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and conservationist, dead at 91Jane Goodall, known to the world for her work chimpanzees and support for conservation, has died at 91.
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Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and conservationist, dead at 91Jane Goodall, known to the world for her work chimpanzees and support for conservation, has died at 91.
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Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and conservationist, dead at 91Jane Goodall, known to the world for her work chimpanzees and support for conservation, has died at 91.
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Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and conservationist, dead at 91Jane Goodall, known to the world for her work chimpanzees and support for conservation, has died at 91.
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