In Loving Memory of Dr. Jane Goodall 🕊️🌿 1934 – 2025
  With profound sadness, we at WildHub join the world in mourning the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall 🌿- a trailblazer, visionary, and one of the most influential voices for the natural world. Her loss is deeply felt, but her legacy will continue to guide us for generations to come.
Jane Goodall transformed the way we understand animals, nature, and ourselves. Her groundbreaking research with chimpanzees in Gombe shattered long-held scientific assumptions and expanded the boundaries of what was thought possible in wildlife behaviour and emotional intelligence. But her contributions reached far beyond science, they reshaped how we approach conservation as a global community. 🌍🤝
Dr. Goodall was a force of nature in every sense, not only for what she discovered, but for how she did it. In a time when women were almost entirely excluded from field biology and academic recognition, Jane stepped into the heart of the forest and rewrote the rules. She did not wait for permission. With courage, clarity, and conviction, she showed that empathy and intuition have a place in science and that women have a place in leadership. 👩🔬✨
By simply being herself - curious, driven, and unapologetically passionate - Jane challenged the unspoken boundaries of a male-dominated field. Her success inspired thousands of women to follow in her footsteps and forge their own paths in conservation, ecology, and environmental justice. Through her voice and her visibility, she opened doors that had long been closed and insisted that a more inclusive, compassionate approach to conservation was not only possible but necessary.
At WildHub, we are deeply grateful for all Jane Goodall gave to the world - her insights, her activism, her enduring optimism. She reminded us that conservation is not only about protecting species and ecosystems, but about uplifting communities, empowering the next generation, and honouring our shared connection to nature. 
Her legacy is one of science and soul, of listening deeply to the land, to the animals, and to the quiet truths within ourselves. She taught us that hope is not naïve; it is courageous. 🕯️And that lasting change begins when we choose to act with love, persistence, and humility.
Thank you, Jane 💚 We will carry your torch forward with compassion, with courage, and with integrity. 
May your spirit live on in every forest, every young voice rising, and every step we take toward a more just and wild world. 🌿🕊️
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Has Jane Goodall’s work influenced your journey in conservation? 🌍
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Let’s honour her legacy by remembering not just what she did but how she made each of us feel more connected to nature, to each other, and to the work ahead. 
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I’ll kick things off by sharing a few thoughts of my own. 🌿
On a personal note, Jane’s empathy for animals and her ethical commitments have been profoundly meaningful to me. Her decision to adopt a vegan lifestyle was a reflection of her deep compassion, not just for chimpanzees or iconic species, but for all life. 🐾🐄🐖🐓
She saw each animal as an individual: she assigned names, not numbers, to the chimpanzees she studied, recognising their personalities, relationships, and emotions. That simple but powerful act challenged the notion of animals as mere data points, instead inviting us to understand them as "subjects-of-a-life", with stories and feelings too.
Her role in opening doors for women in science and conservation continues to inspire. By moving boldly into spaces dominated by men, by leading with empathy and integrity, she showed that women’s voices and insights are essential in shaping a more compassionate approach to science.
My academic path and the work I do today are inseparably linked to the groundwork she laid. Her legacy lives not just in policy or research, but in how we treat each creature with dignity, respect, and love. 💚
@Thirza Loffeld @Liane Fulford @Fleur Morton @Fairuse Akter @SIMON KARIUKI @Vimbainashe Eunick @Tsholofelo Lori @Grace Alawa @Anesu Florência Chivite @Ussi Abuu Mnamengi @Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal
In Tanzania, we mourn deeply the loss of Dr. Jane Goodall, whose life intertwined so profoundly with our land. 🌿 From her arrival in Gombe Stream National Park in 1960, she transformed our forests into a global beacon of discovery, revealing the souls of chimpanzees and the unbreakable bond between humanity and nature.
Through TACARE and the Jane Goodall Institute, she lifted villages from poverty while safeguarding our ecosystems—proving that conservation thrives when rooted in compassion and local voices. Dr. Goodall, rest in eternal peace; God loved you more and called you home. We pledge, from the shores of Lake Tanganyika to the hills of Gombe, to carry your torch forward, never turning back but advancing with the hope and determination you ignited in us. Thank you for making Tanzania your heart's home. 💚
Jane was a legend and will remain so forever. 🙏