Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist and conservationist, has died, according to the conservation institute she founded. "The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes," the institute said on social media. That discovery is considered one of the achievements of twentieth-century scholarship, according to the Jane Goodall Institute. "Yes, people need to make money, but it is possible to make money without destroying the planet," Goodall told ABC News at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute, founded in 1977, is now the longest-running study of wild chimpanzees.