We need your help. The major, or “Super” El Niño event that climatologists have been forecasting has arrived in Borneo. This means an especially hot and extended dry season. In the devastating 2023 dry season, it didn’t rain from July until early November, and over 3000 hectares of OFI protected forest and reforestation area burned. In the village […]
Saving Our Ancestors – Reflections by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas
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.
Press Release
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 […]