Story highlights Jane Goodall is world-renowned primatologist who began studying chimpanzees in the 1960sThe Jane Goodall Institute has established a micro-credit loan program to help villagersIn the long run, the program has led to improvements in the environments and chimpanzees' livelihood(CNN) Jane Goodall is known across the globe as the world's leading primatologist and an animal rights activist. She spent the early 1960s in Tanzania, living among wild chimpanzees, gaining their trust and documenting their behaviors. Goodall shared her findings with the world and revealed how much humankind has in common with these creatures. Thirty years later, Goodall flew into Tanzania and was shocked by what she saw. You know, there were basically just no trees left, and there were clearly more people living on that land than the land could support."

Source: CNN September 12, 2016 21:00 UTC