Silvery lining for Java’s endangered gibbon as Rahayu Oktaviani wins Whitley prize

Mongabay
May 26, 2025, 11:11 pm91 pts
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Rahayu Oktaviani revered the work of Canadian primatologist Biruté Galdikas while a student in the mid-2000s, aspiring to join her hero in protecting the Bornean orangutan, which would be classified several years later as a critically endangered species. In the end, a lack of research…

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