A year ago, on 31 October, the world-famous primatologist Jane Goodall, who died on 1 October, visited our university and met students and lecturers from the Social-Ecological Forest Management degree programme, among others. She told the students at the time: "You will find a lot of hope in the resilience of nature."

In the Socioecological Forest Management degree programme, teachers and students work with an alternative approach to managing our forests in order to maintain nature's resilience. This new approach to management as socio-ecological forest cultivation is people-centred and ecosystem-based. It supports Jane Goodall's legacy of protecting and restoring our natural environment.

Jane Goodall's visit to Eberswalde took place at the invitation of Peter Wohlleben at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE). This meeting will be remembered by many as a moving moment - as an encounter with a woman whose life's work has shaped generations of conservationists.

She dedicated her life to animal and nature conservation for more than six decades. From the 1980s onwards, she worked tirelessly as an eco-activist, speaker and inspiring voice in the global campaign for nature conservation and climate protection.
Until the very end, the UN Messenger of Peace used her voice to call for urgent action against the climate crisis worldwide - with unwavering optimism and deep hope in the power of human action. Her voice and her actions are missing.