British primatologist Jane Goodall, a longtime World Economic Forum contributor who controversially called for drastic reductions in the global population, has died at the age of 91, her institute announced Wednesday.
A frequent participant at the WEF in Davos, Goodall spoke openly about her belief that the Earth could only sustain a fraction of its current population. In a 2020 panel, she remarked: “We cannot hide the damage we’ve done to Mother Earth by our sheer numbers. We are overpopulating this planet.”
Goodall “passed away due to natural causes” while on a speaking tour in California, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement. “Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” the organization added.
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Born in London on April 3, 1934, Goodall showed an early fascination with animals—her father once gave her a toy chimpanzee that she kept throughout her life. Inspired by the Tarzan novels, she dreamed of working with great apes, a passion that eventually defined her career.
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Her opportunity came in 1957 when she traveled to Kenya and began working for famed paleontologist Louis Leakey.
Leakey later sent her to Tanzania to study chimpanzees, launching a groundbreaking project that revealed the complex social lives, tool use, and emotional depth of humankind’s closest relatives.
She became the first of three women—alongside Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas—chosen by Leakey to study great apes in the wild.
Goodall’s findings in Gombe Stream National Park shattered scientific orthodoxy and made her one of the most celebrated primatologists in history. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute to support conservation research, and in 1991 she created the Roots & Shoots youth program, which now spans more than 60 countries.
From the 1980s onward, after learning of the threats facing chimpanzees—habitat destruction, hunting, and exploitation in laboratories—Goodall dedicated her life to environmental advocacy. She traveled the world for decades, urging both governments and ordinary people to change their relationship with nature.
Even into her 90s, she remained active, delivering lectures, publishing books, and lending her voice to environmental and globalist causes.
Jane Goodall leaves behind a towering legacy in science, conservation, and international debate over humanity’s future—admired by millions for her compassion for animals, but also remembered for her outspoken role in controversial global policy discussions.
