Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said on Wednesday.

In a social media post, the Jane Goodall Institute said that Goodall died of natural causes while she was in California as part of a speaking tour.

She had turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, Reuters reported.

“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 institute said on Instagram.

According to a report by Reuters, the primatologist-turned-conservationist spun her love of wildlife into a life-long campaign that took her from a seaside English village to Africa and then across the globe in a quest to better

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