News and updates
Gombe field season 2026 begins
Field season at Gombe runs through October. M-community focus this year.
Read more →Roots & Shoots celebrates 35 years
35 years of youth-led conservation, now in 70 countries.
Read more →65 years of Gombe demographic data now publicly available
The full Gombe demographic archive, 1960 to present, now public.
Read more →Welcoming Dr. Amara Okafor to the Gombe long-term study team
New postdoc joining the long-term Gombe study from Edinburgh.
Read more →Speaking at COP31 on long-term conservation
Plenary at COP31 in Belém on the timescale of conservation.
Read more →Press & media
TIME 100: The Most Influential People of 2024
TIME
Citation in TIME's annual influence list, written by Sigourney Weaver.
Read article →The Quiet Revolutionary: Jane Goodall at 90
The New York Times
A magazine-length retrospective on six decades at Gombe and the cultural shift her work catalysed inside and outside ethology.
Read article →Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Jane Goodall
NPR
Hour-long interview spanning her early work, the founding of the Jane Goodall Institute, and the next generation of conservationists.
Read article →Sixty years at Gombe: what one stream can teach us
Scientific American
Feature on the methodology, findings, and remaining questions from the world's longest-running primate field study.
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