US SR483

Senate resolution honoring Dr. Jane Goodall (born April 3, 1934), who passed away October 1, 2025 at age 91, for her contributions as an ethologist, animal behaviorist, and environmental conservationist

Recognizes her groundbreaking 1960 research at Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania, where she established the world's longest-running wild chimpanzee research program and documented chimpanzees making tools and displaying complex social behaviors

Acknowledges her founding of the Jane Goodall Institute, the Roots and Shoots Program (1991) now operating in approximately 75 countries, and the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education (TACARE) program

Notes honors received including U.N. Messenger of Peace (2002), Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2004), U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, French Légion d'honneur, and Japan's Kyoto Prize

Extends condolences to her family and staff at the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots and Shoots Program