00:00The institute bearing her name confirmed the news this morning on Instagram.
00:04Goodall is best known for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzee research.
00:08Her legacy will continue to live on.
00:131960, that I first stepped onto the shore of what is now Gombe National Park
00:20to start what has now become the longest uninterrupted study of wild chimpanzees.
00:27She was perhaps the most influential conservationist of her time.
00:32Jane Goodall's extraordinary mission began in the jungles of Africa in the late 1950s.
00:38Growing up in England, she had been fascinated with Africa as a child
00:42and spent most of her teenage years planning how to get there.
00:47Without a college degree or any formal scientific training,
00:51Goodall moved to Tanzania to work for a paleontologist when she was in her early 20s.
00:57Her calm demeanor and passion for animals impressed the scientist
01:01and soon he commissioned her to study chimpanzees in the wild.
01:06She gave up almost all of her possessions and lived among them for years,
01:11gaining their trust and becoming part of their family.
01:14On her YouTube channel, Goodall talked about what she learned.
01:18In those early days, no one knew anything about the behavior of chimps in the wild,
01:23So wasn't I lucky?
01:25Everything I saw and observed was new and exciting.
01:29Goodall witnessed chimps using tools, eating meat,
01:33showing compassion towards each other, and building nests in trees.
01:38These behaviors contradict what the scientific community had previously thought,
01:43and her work attracted worldwide attention.
01:46In July 1960, Jane Goodall, a 26-year-old English girl,
01:52has embarked on a remarkable adventure.
01:54In 1965, a National Geographic documentary called
01:58Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees was broadcast in the United States.
02:03From that moment on, the public could not get enough of Goodall,
02:07her face appearing regularly on the cover of magazines and on TV.
02:12She spoke about this on 60 Minutes.
02:15There was definitely a bit of beauty in the beast.
02:18I mean, I know that.
02:20This young girl, and I see myself back then, I look at myself,
02:23and I think, yeah, no wonder the men fell in love.
02:26In 1977, she founded a non-profit called the Jane Goodall Institute,
02:32which enabled her to raise money and awareness for conservation
02:35and animal advocacy projects around the world.
02:39With the steady stream of donations,
02:41Goodall was able to start several chimp sanctuaries
02:45and create a wildly popular youth environmental program called Roots and Shoots.
02:52She also worked to empower local villagers to protect their land from logging and illegal poaching.
02:58Even in her later years, Goodall traveled 300 days a year speaking to world leaders and celebrities alike.
03:06She often ended each speech and video with the same plea for action.
03:11She said it was her most important message.
03:14Think about the consequences of the choices that we make.
03:18What do we eat?
03:20Did it involve cruelty?
03:22What do we wear?
03:23Was it made with child slave labor somewhere far away?
03:26How far has it come?
03:27So if we start thinking about these little choices and learning about the consequences,
03:34then we are definitely leaving a lighter ecological footprint,
03:39which will help animals, people, and the environment.
03:41Jane Goodall, a true champion for animals and Mother Nature.
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