Global Tributes Mark Passing of Renowned Conservationist Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, has died at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute announced, prompting worldwide tributes. Her decades of fieldwork at Gombe Stream in Tanzania—most famously documenting chimpanzee tool use, social structures and emotional lives—revolutionized scientific and public understanding of humans’ closest relatives. Goodall broke barriers in a male‑dominated scientific world and founded the Jane Goodall Institute and its youth program Roots & Shoots. She remained active on lecture tours and in advocacy up to her final weeks and was praised by scientists, environmentalists, activists and public figures including Leonardo DiCaprio and members of royal families. Her legacy endures in the generations of researchers, conservation programs and young people she inspired to protect wildlife and rethink humanity’s relationship with nature.