Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall dies aged 91
發佈日期: 2025-10-02 20:43
TVB News
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
The Jane Goodall Institute made the announcement in a post on Instagram on Wednesday.
While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to people. She also noted their distinct personalities.
Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s not only transformed how the world perceived the apes, but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
In her later years, Goodall devoted decades to education and advocacy on humanitarian causes and protecting the natural world.
From her base in the coastal U.K. town of Bournemouth, she travelled nearly 300 days a year well into her 80's to speak to packed auditoriums around the world.
During speeches, she would often whoop like a chimpanzee or joke that Tarzan chose the wrong Jane.
Born in London in 1934, Goodall has earned top civilian honours from a number of countries including Britain, France, Japan and Tanzania.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2025 by Joe Biden and won the prestigious Templeton Prize in 2021.
She once said: "We need to recognise at the outset that what we do to animals from their perspective certainly and probably from ours is morally wrong and unacceptable and that it's really important to follow through all these exciting new leads into ways of doing research without using animals.
"Where is the big encouragement, where is the political will, where is the funding for this kind of research?"
