Overview

• The Jane Goodall Institute said she died from natural causes while on a U.S. speaking tour and announced the news in a Facebook statement.
• She was 91 and in California at the time of her death, according to the Institute.
• BBC Breakfast interrupted its program as Naga Munchetty delivered the news with Charlie Stayt before airing a pre-recorded retrospective by correspondent Graham Satchell.
• Public figures including Barack Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex issued tributes, with Harry and Meghan recalling her kindness to their family.
• Goodall’s six-decade field research began in Tanzania in 1960, and she later founded the Jane Goodall Institute and served as a UN Messenger of Peace.