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	Sea Shepherd Advisors - Birute Galdikas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Biruté Galdikas was born in London, Germany, on May 10, 1946, while her parents were en route from Lithuania to Canada.
		Biruté Galdikas was the first person of non-Indonesian birth and one of the first women to be so recognized by the Indonesian government.
		Biruté is uncompromising in her defense of wild orangutans and the preservation of tropical rain forests, which constitute the orangutan species' only natural habitat.
	www.seashepherd.org /boa/boa_birute_galdikas.html (364 words)

	Orangtans in Borneo 2000 - Birute Galdikas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Birute Galdikas is acknowledged as the world's leading authority on orangutans and founder of the Orangutan Foundation International.
		She was born in 1946 in Germany, en route from Lithuania to Canada, and lives in British Columbia, Canada where she lectures at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
		Galdikas was still in her early twenties at the time, and has spent much of the rest of her life in and around the Camp in Borneo devoted to their study and care.
	www.geocities.com /orangutans2000/birute.htm (227 words)

	Animal Planet :: News :: Saving Borneo's Orangutans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Despite Galdikas' familiarity with the ginger-haired orangutan who clambers onto the porch to offer her a rough and affectionate hug, Siswi's presence is an increasing rarity in the trees around her Borneo home, where aggressive destruction of one of the world's last remaining great ape habitats has led to a precipitous decline in their population.
		Equally rare, perhaps, is Galdikas herself: a scientist whose boundless passion for the study and preservation of orangutans has repeatedly drawn her back to the hostile jungles of Indonesia and a life that is certainly unique among the few who share her profession.
		Galdikas, born to Lithuanian parents and brought up in Canada, embarked on her lifelong quest to explore the world of great apes in 1971 after persuading eminent Kenyan paleontologist Louis Leakey to recruit her as a researcher.
	apl.discovery.com /news/afp/20050815/orangutans.html (490 words)

	USINDO - Dr. Birute Galdika's Brief Report (in Open Forum of Public Affairs Programs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Birute Galdikas, the head of a research and conservation project for orangutans of Kalimantan, stated to a USINDO audience that the orangutan, is on the way to extinction in the wild because of the destruction of its forest habitat.
		Dr. Galdikas cited an estimate of the World Bank that 70 percent of the timber cut is from illegal logging.
		Dr. Galdikas, who is married to a Dayak, was asked for the local view of the conflict.
	www.usindo.org /brief_33.htm (761 words)

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		Biruté Galdikas has spent 24 years with those referred to in Malay as "people of the forest," the great apes with the long red hair.
		Galdikas' study of the most endangered of the great apes is the longest continuous study by one principal researcher of any mammal in the world.
		Galdikas is married to a native Dayak Indonesian.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1995/11-17-95/news/primate.html (433 words)

	Tyler Environmental Prize
		Birute Galdikas has devoted 26 years to field studies of the endangered orangutan and is the world's leading expert orangutan behavior and ecology.
		Galdikas brought the orangutan to the attention of the rest of the world and through the use of sophisticated data analysis has shed light not only on orangutan behavior but also on the animal's habitat and diet.
		As an outgrowth of her scientific research on orangutans, Galdikas is involved with numerous conservation efforts in Indonesia that are leading to the restoration of forests in Borneo, maintenance of a care center for orphaned orangutans, and the education of young people about the importance of the endangered orangutans.
	www.usc.edu /admin/provost/tylerprize/tyler1997.html (573 words)

	CBS News \| The Mother Of All Orangutans \| July 10, 2001 16:18:06
		In 1971 Birute Galdikas was just a 25-year-old anthropology student from the University of California at Los Angeles when she and her photographer husband, Rod Brinadmour, left for the Indonesian island of Borneo.
		Galdikas makes no secret of her disdain for the loggers, developers and poachers that she regards as enemies of the orangutan population.
		Galdikas' friends in the scientific community worry that her outspokenness may cause her to suffer the same fate as her old friend, anthropologist Dian Fossey, said to have been murdered in Rwanda by poachers.
	uttm.com /stories/1999/07/14/48hours/main54343.shtml (886 words)

	Orangutans online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is difficult to imagine the controversial primatologist Biruté Galdikas extolling the virtues of the digital age--but she does.
		Galdikas, 56, is tall and heavyset, with an unkempt mane of graying hair and thick, unfashionable glasses.
		Galdikas has lobbied the government of Indonesia to help her to replant the damaged forest and establish a reserve for the apes--Orangutan Israel, she calls it.
	www.orangutansonline.com /articles/article126.htm (1161 words)

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		Galdikas approached him after the lecture, and her enthusiasm made it clear to him that she deserved a place in the lineage founded by Goodall and Fossey.
		Galdikas' retort - that quality is more important than quantity - is one that may reflect deep-rooted differences in how male and female researchers approach science.
		Galdikas' slowness in publishing - in fact, her overall indifference to conventional academic standards - is what made her scientific success possible.
	www.hehd.clemson.edu /PRTM/CHSH202/Morell_and_others_on_Trimates.txt (5041 words)

	mona lisa production
		Biruté Galdikas has decided that these great primates will not disappear from the planet.
		Biruté Galdikas has been mandated by the government to produce an educational programme for schools.
		Galdikas is a professor at the National University of Jakarta.
	www.monalisa-prod.com /vi/catalogue/nature/nature_heroes_galdikas.htm (1557 words)

	Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal
		Galdikas saw it as the infringement of technology on the purity of nature and that “humankind was trying to supplant God in the ordering of time, nature and the earth” (p.163).
		Galdikas and others made huge gains in meeting and getting to know animals in their own worlds, a dramatic departure from, and resistance to, Western science’s objectification of animals.
		Although Galdikas acknowledges that she was able to choose freely while Akmad’s choices were often forced upon her, I was disconcerted by the simplicity of what seemed her unconscious constructions of motherhood.
	www.psyeta.org /sa/sa9.1/fawcett.shtml (2810 words)

	Orangutan Foundation International - About Our President, Dr. Biruté M.F. Galdikas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Galdikas was born after the end of World War II, while her parents were en route to Canada from their homeland of Lithuania.
		Galdikas has lectured extensively and distributed numerous materials on the orangutan species and its rainforest habitat to citizens of Indonesia and abroad.
		Galdikas is Professor Extraordinaire at the Universitas Nasional in Jakarta and Full Professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
	www.orangutan.org /aboutus/president.php (822 words)

	Camp Leakey Orang-utans
		Galdikas is known as one of the "Leakey Angels" - the other two members of this exclusive club being Jane Goodall (who studies chimpanzees in Tanzania) and Dian Fossey (who studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda before her death).
		Galdikas tracks orang-utans from the ground - which is not easy because of swamps, but "once they get used to your presence, orang-utans move slowly." Her Dayak assistants, however, have no trouble climbing into the rainforest canopy if they have to.
		Although glimpses of Galdikas' fieldwork had appeared in 'National Geographic articles, it was the 1995 publication of her book 'Reflections of Eden' that introduce her enthralling experiences in the jungles of Borneo to a much broader audience.
	www.borneo.com.au /kalimantan/campleakey.htm (1531 words)

	BIRUTE GALDIKAS - Birgitte's Primates Page
		When Biruté was 12 years old she loved to go into the wilder sections of High Park in Toronto and pretend she was a Huron or Iroquois native slipping through the woods, at one with nature.
		Also, this support was evident in the creation of the 76,000 hectare wildlife reserve in 1998 based upon Biruté's detailed recommendation to the Governor of Kalimantan Tangah province and to the Ministry of Forestry.
		As Jane Goodall once commented, it is not surprising that Biruté Galdikas, who protects orangutans and forests, has to struggle daily against hatred and greed of those who make millions of dollars by destroying the forest and against the complicity of people who put their egos above the needs of orangutans, native people and forests.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/primates/galdikas.html (709 words)

	Outside Online - Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Galdikas had had disagreements with the Ministry of Forestry in the past, and officials had threatened to revoke her research permit several times in the early 1990s.
		Galdikas became the first primatologist to witness a wild orangutan birth and the first to document an orangutan using a stick as a tool in the wild.
		While the young Galdikas was doing her groundbreaking research in Borneo, the low-grade threat from traditional Dayak hunting of orangutans was being superseded by the impact of large-scale development emanating from Djakarta.
	www.activetraveldirectory.com /magazine/0598/9805ape.html (8624 words)

	Galdikas, Birute M. F. Orangutan Odyssey.
		Galdikas is to orangutans what Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees (both were students of the great paleontologist Louis Leakey), and in this new book, she provides an overview of her work with this most arboreal of the great apes.
		The present work is a compilation and popularization of what Galdikas and her coworkers have learned over the years.
		Galdikas discovered that females live with their current offspring for up to eight years, while males live almost totally alone, interacting with other orangs only to fight for dominance (males) or to breed (females).
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v96/adult/no1/16galdik.html (418 words)

	UNEP Global 500 Laureates - Award Winners
		Birute Galdikas is recognized as the most knowledgeable person on the subject of orangutans.
		Galdikas founded and is president of the Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) which has chapters in five countries and a small devoted membership.
		Her actions resulted in the decision of the Taiwan government to ban the import of all primates to the island; the creation of the Orangutan Foundation in Taiwan and the repatriation of 10 confiscated orangutans to Indonesia.
	www.global500.org /ViewLaureate.asp?ID=205 (230 words)

	CBS News \| The Last Place On Earth \| July 10, 2001 16:09:26
		Galdikas first explored Sekonyer River 30 years ago when it was a paradise for apes.
		In fact, when Galdikas came to the forest in 1971, she imagined that she might not ever see an orangutan.
		Galdikas says it is urgent that humans save the species "because they are our closest living relatives, because they are unique, because they've been on this Earth for millions of years, and they deserve to survive."
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/01/02/60II/main260977.shtml (1149 words)

	Interview: All in the family - interview with orangutan scientist Birute Galdikas - Interview
		Birute Galdikas, the evolutionary scientist who has devoted her life to living with, studying, and protecting orangutans in the rain forest, talks to the revolutionary rock 'n' roller and animal rights activist Chrissie Hynde
		Birute Galdikas is the third of Louis Leakey's famous protegees to devote her life to the study of great apes in their natural environments.
		In her book Reflections of Eden, recently published by Little, Brown, Galdikas tells her apocalyptic story from the vantage point of one who began her scientific pilgrimage to the rain forests of Indonesia as a twenty-five-year-old UCLA graduate student - and a pupil of Leakey - in 1971.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n3_v25/ai_16678908 (1467 words)

	Biblio: Reflections of Eden: My Years With the Orangutans of Borneo by Galdikas, Birute M. F: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Not only is Galdikas a brilliant, courageous, and persevering scientist, but she is also a wonderfully engaging and generous writer.
		Galdikas' detailed chronicle is alive with captivating portraits of individual orangutans--from "vigorous and decisive" Cara to clinging Sugito, amorous TP, and loving Akmad--and charged with the forces of love, determination, grief, and recovery.
		A groundbreaking chronicler of the orangutans' life cycle, Galdikas also describes the threats that increasingly menace them: the battles with poachers and loggers, the illicit trade in infant orangutans, the frustrations of official bureaucracy.
	www.biblio.com /books/295873.html (702 words)

	science.ca Profile : Biruté Galdikas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Biruté Galdikas has two younger brothers and a sister, as well as three children.
		Galdikas has learned more than any other human being about what it means to be an orangutan, and what she has found out is that orangutans like to be left alone.
		Galdikas has been living in the rain forest among the orangutans for the last 24 years.
	www.science.ca /scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=7 (1344 words)

	Orangutan Odyssey:Galdikas, Birute Mary Dr. :0810936941:eCampus.com
		For more than 25 years, renowned primatologist Birute Galdikas has lived among the orangutans of Borneo, studying their habits, defending them against loggers and poachers, and nurturing their orphaned youngsters.
		Now, with this extraordinary pictorial essay, Galdikas brings to life her work with these shy and endangered red apes.
		Taking readers to her remote rainforest headquarters, Galdikas draws on Karl Ammann's unparalleled photographs to present intimate portraits of the individual orangutans she's come to know and offers rare glimpses of their behavior in the wild.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0810936941&referrer=yah04 (120 words)

	Orangutan Odyssey \| Birute Mary Galdikas \| Orangutan Odyssey
		In her memoir Reflections of Eden, written long after her fellow "trimates" published theirs, Galdikas described her efforts at Camp Leakey to rehabilitate ex-captive orangutans and release them into the nearby Borneo rainforest.
		Galdikas herself is characterized as an imperious and careless scientist, which no doubt played a role in Galdikas's decision in July 1999 to sue Spalding for libel.
		The recently deposed Indonesian government of Suharto was notoriously corrupt and adopted policies that led to large-scale deforestation, although its legacy is treated gingerly by Galdikas, who lives there when she isn't teaching at the University of British Columbia.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/flefbajbie (427 words)

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