
Jane Goodall is credited with pioneering primate research (Photo: HYECTOR RETAMAL/Staff)
English zoologist and primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91. Challenging the boundaries of societal and emotional animal capabilities, Goodall is credited with changing our perception of how chimpanzees love, live, and interact with one another in the wild.
Goodall died on October 1 in California of natural causes, wrote the Jane Goodall Institute. Her death marks the culmination of a lifetime of activism.
鈥淭he Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that D. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States,鈥 a shared to her official Facebook page read.
鈥淒r. Goodall鈥檚 discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.鈥
An advocate for volunteerism, Goodall also had an impact on those who love the outdoors and the wild world. Here is what the outside community had to say about her death.
Beth Pratt, director of the National Wildlife Federation, on X that her life鈥檚 work was inspired by Goodall鈥檚 from an early age.
In a post to X, the United Nations that the agency mourns her loss.
Goodall often said that her . We wish her well in her quest.
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