President Joe Biden presents ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in January. File Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License Photo
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Jane Goodall was scheduled to speak in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday evening as part of her fall tour -- an event suddenly halted by her death Los Angeles a week earlier at age 91. But the institute she co-founded has pledged to advance its goals.
Leaders of the Jane Goodall Institute, founded in 1977, said they plan to carry on the mission of the famed primatologist known for her humanitarian and environmental concerns.
From the chimpanzee research in Tanzania to global Roots & Shoots youth programs, the institute plans reinforce what Goodall believed: "The future of the planet and humanity is in our hands."
Conservationist Anna Rathmann, the Institute's executive director for almost five years, told UPI in an interview this week that "We miss her dearly, but we also are assuming the mantle that we are proudly bearing as her organization to continue her work and carry forward her mission and vision of a bright future for the planet."
