CNN, GETTY IMAGES, POPPERFOTO, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE, Popperfoto/Getty Images, National Geographic/Getty ImagesBy CNN Impact Your World and Martha Shade(CNN) — Jane Goodall spent her life championing chimpanzees and working to prevent their extinction, while also supporting conservation efforts on every continent and advocating for the world’s poor. In 1960, 26-year-old Goodall first traveled to Tanzania from her native England to work with chimpanzees. Jane Goodall InstituteThe Jane Goodall Institute works to protect the wild chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania – and all across Africa. Youth ActivismYears after establishing her namesake institute, Goodall launched its popular youth program “Roots and Shoots” to encourage the next generation’s involvement with conservation. National Geographic SocietyGoodall worked with the National Geographic Society many times over the years and became their “Explorer in Residence” in 2000.