Overview

• Goodall died of natural causes on October 1 in Los Angeles at age 91 while traveling for speaking engagements.
• Longtime aide Mary Lewis said Goodall was working on documents the night before she died and noted active coordination among 26 Jane Goodall Institutes worldwide.
• Netflix announced a posthumous Famous Last Words episode featuring her final on-camera interview, filmed earlier this year and conducted by Brad Falchuk.
• Global tributes followed, including messages from Prince William, Prince Harry, former U.S. President Joe Biden and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
• Her Gombe fieldwork showed chimpanzee tool use, social complexity and emotion, and her Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots youth program now operate internationally.