Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

Mongabay
Mar 25, 2026, 11:21 pm127 ptsTrending
In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their forest habitat in Borneo and Sumatra was still vast, though already beginning to change. Logging roads were…

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