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FUTURESAVER OF THE WEEK ENDING 2-26-2000

Birute Galdikas is the anthropologist who is the world's foremost authority on orangutans. She has done more to study orangutans and to save them than anyone else. She knows that good and compassionate human families and good and compassionate human communities are key to successful human and environmental survival. She has won the PETA Humanitarian Award, the Eddie Bauer Hero of the Earth award, the Sierra Club Chico Mendes Award, the United Nations Global 500 Award and many other awards and honors. She received two university degrees, set up an orangutan research station in Borneo, lived in the jungle for 23 years, founded Orangutan International support groups all over the world, became a Professor at Simon Fraser University, wrote articles for National Geographic and other publications, wrote over fifty scientific articles, wrote twenty reviews and wrote two books. For learning the intimate details of organgutans and their rainforest and for letting us all know how desperately the rainforest and the rest of earth's environments need to be saved, Dr. Birute M.F. Galdikas has been named Futuresaver of the Week. Click the links below for more information.

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Birute (Orangutan Foundation International)
Birute (science.ca)