Dr. Biruté Galdikas and the Orangutans
Find resources and information about an inspiring woman, copied from a FB post by 'A Mighty Girl':
Happy 79th birthday to primatologist Dr. Biruté Galdikas, the world's leading authority on orangutans! When she pored over stories of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey’s primate research adventures while growing up in Toronto, Canada, Galdikas had no idea she’d be joining their ranks!
But when she met acclaimed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey during her graduate studies, she told him she wanted to study orangutans in the wild — and soon she was setting up a research camp in the harsh rain forests of Indonesian Borneo when she was just 25 years old. Galdikas not only revolutionized our understanding of this little-known primate, but she also became an advocate for the protection of the orangutan’s rainforest home, which has been threatened by widespread logging.
As part of her conservation efforts, she tackled the trade in…