A State Honour is received. An Oak forest planted by and for dr. B.Galdikas
Published: 2011-05-30
World renowned primatologist and conservationist, Canada's own Dr. Biruté Galdikas, visited Lithuania in early May, where she received a State Honour at the Presidential Palace and spearheaded an initiative to rejuvenate Lithuania's oak forests.
Dr. Galdikas' parents emigrated to Canada from Lithuania as wartime refugees. Growing up in Toronto and then studying at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Galdikas has since devoted her life to the study and protection of orangutans in Indonesia, where she established a rehabilitation centre and refuge for orphaned orangutans in 1971. An IMAX 3D film, Born to Be Wild, chronicling Dr. Biruté ongoing work in the rainforests of Borneo, has just been released in North America.
More information is published at the Government of Canada for Baltic states website under the article Born to be Wild: Canadian primatologist and conservationist Biruté Galdikas is honoured in Lithuania