Overview

• The Jane Goodall Institute confirmed her death on Oct. 1, stating she was in California for a speaking tour and that the cause was natural.
• International tributes followed, including a United Nations message mourning her passing and noting her role as a UN Messenger of Peace.
• Her 1960s research at Gombe in Tanzania documented toolmaking, coordinated hunting and rich social behavior in chimpanzees, reshaping primatology.
• She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 and Roots & Shoots in 1991, institutions that continue global research, conservation and youth education.
• Supported early by Louis Leakey, she earned a Cambridge doctorate based on her field data and later traveled extensively as a leading conservation advocate.