Remembering Jane Goodall in photos: the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall has died at 91. Her pioneering chimpanzee research and global environmental advocacy reshaped conservation.

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FILE – British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist Jane Goodall poses for a portrait in New York to promote the Disneynature film, “Born in China”, April 7, 2017. Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, died Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. She was 91. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP File)
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FILE – Jane Goodall kisses Tess, a female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary near Nanyuki, north of Nairobi, on Dec. 6, 1997. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)
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FILE – President Joe Biden, right, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, to conservationist Jane Goodall in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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FILE – English primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall observes gorillas after she unveiled the plaque of late Hungarian primatologist Geza Teleki in the Ape’s House of the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, June 15, 2015. ( Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP File)
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FILE – Primatologist Jane Goodall addresses a Harvard Law School symposium, “The Evolving Legal Status of Chimpanzees,” in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 30, 2002. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, file)
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FILE – Jane Goodall, British ethnologist and world famous expert for chimpanzees, looks at one the of gorillas of the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 11, 2008. Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, died Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. She was 91. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
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FILE – English primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall speaks on a panel “Earth’s Wisdom Keepers” at the forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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FILE – Primatologist Jane Goodall goes through slides before making a presentation in Chicago, May 9, 1982. (AP Photo/Charles Knoblock, file)
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FILE – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, from left, primatologist Jane Goodall, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon participate in the People’s Climate March in New York, Sept. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
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FILE – Primatologist Jane Goodall kisses Pola, a 14-months-old chimpanzee baby from the Budapest Zoo, that she symbolically adopted in Budapest, Hungary, on Dec. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
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FILE – Primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall delivers the 50th George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., Oct. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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