This short film, made by OFI Board member and dear friend of Dr. Biruté, Charlie Annenberg Weingarten, contains some of the last reflections of our hero and leader in the field. Please donate in honor of Dr. Galdikas on what would have been her 80th Birthday and Mother’s Day May 10, 2026.

Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, the World’s Leading Expert on Orangutans and the Last Living Trimate, Passes Away at 79, Closing an Era of Conservation Icons. Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, founder of Orangutan Foundation International and world conservation hero, dedicated nearly 55 years of her life to researching and protecting orangutans and their rainforest home. She inspired […]

We urgently need your help again. OFI is desperately trying to prevent a repeat of the devastating fire seasons of 2015 and 2019 when thousands of hectares of rainforest burned relentlessly. We are now fighting out-of-control fires within Tanjung Puting National Park and our Orangutan Legacy Forest. In the Rawa Kuno / Rawa Kubu area over […]