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Remembering primatologist Jane Goodall, who should have got the Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2025 admin

Much has been written about the universally loved Jane Goodall, primatologist and animal rights campaigner, on whom awards and honours far too numerous to list have been showered. She passed away on October 1 aged 91. One recognition, however, she did not but should have received is the Nobel Peace Prize. For all her life, Goodall worked for…

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In Focus Podcast | Naming chimps, making room: Jane Goodall’s wild legacy for women in science

October 4, 2025 admin

On a July morning in 1960, Jane Goodall stepped off a boat onto the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. She was 26, untrained by universities, armed only with binoculars, a notebook and patience. What she saw in the forests of Gombe in East Africa altered science itself: chimpanzees who shaped tools, who mourned, who…

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Jane Goodall, primate expert and wildlife advocate, dies at 91

October 1, 2025 admin

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday (October 1, 2025) at 91, the institute she founded said. Dr. Goodall died of natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post. “Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an…

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We Don’t Have Time Left

November 18, 2024 admin

Renowned primatologist and conservationist Dr Jane Goodall has sounded the alarm on the biodiversity crisis, warning that Earth is in the midst of the “sixth great extinction.” Unlike previous mass extinctions caused by natural phenomena, this crisis is almost entirely human-induced. In an exclusive interview with BBC, Dr Goodall emphasized the human role in this…

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