50 Years Saving Orangutans: An Online Talk with Dr Biruté Galdikas

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The world's leading expert in the study of orangutans, Dr Biruté Galdikas, will deliver a live, online talk, followed by a Q&A, for schools

2021 marks 50 years since Dr Galdikas first began studying orangutans in their native habitat. On 21 June, The Mount School York will host a live, online talk by Dr Galdikas for schools in the UK and abroad. Dr Galdikas&#x27; presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. The session will begin at 9am (British Summer Time) and finish at 10am. Schools which are interested in registering for the event may do so here. The Mount will be contact schools which have registered with the login details for the session. This event is for schools only. In the interest of chid safeguarding, the organiser reserves the right to decline admission to any individual /organisation.About Dr GaldikasShe is one of the original ‘Trimates’ supported by the anthropologist Louis Leakey, to study hominoids in their respective natural environments. Jane Goodall began her studies of chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960, Dian Fossey travelled to Rwanda in 1967 to study mountain gorillas, and in 1971 Biruté Galdikas began studying orangutans in Borneo. Dr Galdikas has conducted the longest continuous study, by one principal investigator, of any wild mammal in the world. She was the first to document the long orangutan birth interval, which averages 7.7 years. She recorded over 400 types of food consumed by orangutans, providing unprecedented detail about orangutan ecology. She also helped clarify the nature of orangutan social organisation and mating systems. Dr Galdikas has lectured extensively on the orangutans and their tropical rainforest habitat to audiences and institutions throughout the world. She is dedicated to understanding the nature of the orangutan and also to preserving the creature’s rapidly diminishing natural habitat, which incorporates local peoples, cultures, and the environment. The situation facing wild orangutans today is far more complicated than when Dr Galdikas first began her studies. As a result of poaching and habitat destruction, viable orangutan populations are on the edge of extinction and could be gone within the next 20 years outside of national parks and reserves. Understanding is the first step to action. As President of OFI, Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied orangutans longer than any other person in human history; she has worked ceaselessly to save orangutans and forests, and to bring orangutans and their plight to the attention of the world.

50 Years Saving Orangutans: An Online Talk with Dr Biruté Galdikas

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