"Los orangutanes están al borde de la extinción" | Entrevista a Biruté Galdikas, primatóloga

Galdikas is, together with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, the most prominent scientist in research and the fight to protect primates; her specialty is the reinsertion of small orphan orangutans, with whom she has been working for more than 40 years. Born in 1946 in Germany and raised in Canada, she attended a lecture by anthropologist Louis Leakey at the University of California, which dealt with the dangers faced by great apes and the interest in their study for evolutionary theory. Leakey had already been a mentor and promoter of Jane Goodall's research projects with the chimpanzees in Gombe and Dian Fossey's with the gorillas in Virunga, so Biruté Galdikas convinced Louis to do the same with her and the orangutans. After obtaining funding from National Geographic, Biruté Galdikas settled in Borneo, where she founded the Louis Leakey Research Center and began to study orangutans, until she became the world's leading expert on these primates. On the occasion of the VII Congress of Social Communication of Science in October 2019, Dr. Galdikas gave an inaugural lecture, occasion in which we took the opportunity to conduct this interview. The VII Congress of Social Communication of Science was organized by the Scientific Culture Unit of the University of Burgos and the Spanish Association for Science Communication, with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. For more information and scientific dissemination, subscribe to the channel:    / ubuinvestiga   Follow us on: TWITTER:   / ubuinvestiga   FACEBOOK:   / ubuinvestiga   INSTAGRAM:   / ubuinvestiga   BLOG: https://ubuinvestiga.es/ Resource images: Orangutan Foundation International (OFI). @Free Animal Video Envato 0:00 Introduction 0:21 What is the most fascinating aspect of orangutans? 1:40 What is the situation of orangutans today and how has it changed? 4:39 What does the work of your foundation consist of? 6:49 What would you like your legacy to be? 7:33 What is your fondest memory with orangutans? 14:03 What do you think about climate change? 16:55 Are you studying the genetics of orangutans? 18:58 Ruth Linsky, co-founder of the Orangutan Foundation of Canada and graduate student. 19:13 What is your current research in genetics? 20:09 What results have you achieved? 20:50 Displacement from their natal sites, how can it affect orangutan genetics? 21:25 Final #orangutan #Borneo #BiruteGaldikas #science #science #study #primates