Beloved conservationist Dr Jane Goodall dies, aged 91

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A statement released by The Jane Goodall Institute announced she had passed away while in California on a speaking tour. Just a week before her death, she was on stage in New York, and had appeared on the Wall Street Journal podcast. Video voice-over made using ACM-approved AI.

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00:00Beloved primatologist and animal advocate Dr. Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

00:06The London-born researcher became well-known in the 1960s when she was observing free-living chimpanzees in Tanzania.

00:14By 1977, she had founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect the species.

00:20With a career spanning 60 years, she became known as the leading world expert on chimpanzees.

00:25I want to bring into this space the voice of the chimpanzee, the animal I've studied for so many years with my dedicated team.

00:36And what I'm going to say simply means, this is me, this is Jane, because the chimpanzees have different ways of announcing their presence.

00:46So this is...

00:54It's a distance call. It's very appropriate for you guys up in the balcony.

01:01A statement released by the Jane Goodall Institute announced she had passed away while in California on a speaking tour.

01:08Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionised science, the statement read.

01:13She was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.

01:19Tripiots have flooded social media from all over the world.

01:22The United Nations praised her extraordinary legacy for humanity and nature,

01:28while Greenpeace UK's co-executive director Will McCallum described Goodall as

01:33one of the true conservation giants of our time.

01:36It was one of the true conservation giants of our time.

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