Feature: Jane Goodall, whose Tanzania research reshaped primatology, dies at 91


  • World
  • Friday, 03 Oct 2025

by Xinhua writers Hua Hongli, Lucas Liganga

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The world is mourning Jane Goodall, the renowned ethologist, primatologist, and conservationist, who died Wednesday at 91. Her pioneering research in Tanzania's Gombe National Park reshaped scientific understanding of chimpanzees and helped spark a global movement for environmental stewardship.

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