Jane Goodall, dogged advocate for the natural world, has died aged 91

Jane Gudoll studies the behavior of chimpanzees during his research in Tanzania

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The famous environmental activity of Jane Gudoll died at the age of 91. She studied and speaking for chimpanzees for decades, became a leading expert in the world of our closest relatives of primates and transformed our understanding of mankind. It leaves the towering legacy of sympathy and caring for the world of nature. According to the Institute on October 1, Jane Gudoll, she died of natural causes in California in a speech.

Guddolla began to study chimpanzees in the Gomba National Park in Tanzania in 1960. She took monumental steps in understanding their behavior and group dynamics. Over the next 65 years, she became not only an expert, but also a frank lawyer, teaching the world about the similarity between people and other primates and shedding light on chimpanzees and other animals in the wild from climate change, poaching and destruction of the environment.

In 1977, she founded her institute of the same name, a non -profit organization with the aim of studying and Protection of primates And their habitat while increasing the social understanding of the world of nature. Over time, the mission of the institute has expanded beyond the study of primates – for example, having begun the initiative to health community throughout Africa and even forming a committee dedicated to the protection of whales. Gudoll was also the founder or member of the board of directors in countless other environmental initiatives.

She called extraordinary patience as the key to her achievements. “There were times when I was depressed, and the chimpanzee fled, and I was in the field for a long time. I thought: “Oh, worries, the diet.” [But] If I gave up, I would never forgive myself. I can never live with myself ” She said New scientist in 2022.

Later in her life, buzza spent most of her energy on the activism of preservation, traveling around the world, to get a message that animals are all, and not just chimpanzees – and humanity, in the end, is not so different. She never ceased to be better about the world of nature.

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