Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, has died at the age of 91. Having dedicated her life to the study of chimpanzees and to protecting endangered species, her conservation work took her all over the world, while her own institute – the Jane Goodall Institute – helped advance her vision of global and community action to defend habitat loss.
Venturing into a scientific world largely dominated by men, Goodall’s study of wild chimpanzees began more than 60 years ago in Tanzania. There, she discovered how threatened the survival of their species was by habitat destruction and illegal trafficking. As such, she developed a breakthrough approach that underpins our modern understanding of species conservation.
