Jane Goodall, pioneering primatologist, conservationist and activist, dies at 91 • FRANCE 24

Dr. Jane Goodall, the groundbreaking primatologist, died Wednesday of natural causes in California while she was on a speaking tour. She was 91. Born in London in 1934, she exhibited a passion for animals from an early age, one that would lead her to setting up camp with her mother in Gambi National Park, Tanzania, in 1960 to observe chimpanzees for days and then months. She was the first person to do so, but that did not stop her from being dismissed for her looks. The Okay, there was a big thing. The geographic made me into a covergirl. And there was a lot of flack like, oh, she’s only she’s only somebody because she’s got good legs. And so if that was said today, women would go frantic and crazy. I just said, “Well, if it was my good legs that got me the money from Geographic, thank you legs.” You know, so it was a different era when I was there. Feminism hadn’t really begun. Her groundbreaking 1971 account of her time observing chimpanzees in the shadow of man helped challenge the idea that only humans could use tools and that chimpanzees were vegetarian. In later years, her work moved into global advocacy after she watched a disturbing film on experiments on laboratory animals at a conference in 1986. From then on, she would be seen speaking at universities, summits, and an international fora, eventually being named a UN messenger of peace by the then UN Secretary General Kofan. And she continually called for hope in even the most difficult fights, especially climate change. Some impact. I think we still have a window of time but it’s closing and the only reason that aged almost 90 I’m still traveling 300 days around the world and attending I’ll be attending the um economic world forum is because if we get together now if enough of the big and the great and the ordinary citizens and the young people if we all get together and take action now we can at least slow down climate change and loss of biodiversity and those two are so intricately linked that you can’t really separate them but the the window is closing and I don’t know how big it is we’re part she leaves behind a vast legacy including research a youth conservationist program and the Jane Goodall Institute head and heart

Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist, conservationist and activist who became the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post. Born in London on April 3, 1934, Goodall produced a groundbreaking field study on chimpanzees in the wild in the 1960s and dedicated the latter part of her life to protecting their habitats. Simon Moritz has more.
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