Biruté Galdikas, Champion of Endangered Orangutans, Dies at 79 NYT | Top Stories Richard Sandomir 3 April 2026 at 11:32 With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the “trimates.” © Universal Images Group, via Getty ImagesBiruté Galdikas at her research camp in Borneo. She established it in 1971 in a remote rainforest without transportation and communication services but with plenty of leeches, malarial mosquitoes, wild pigs and king cobras.
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