Tamarin Trust has recently funded camera traps for vital survey work on the buffy-tufted-ear marmoset being carried out by Rodrigo de Carvalho (above right), founder of the Mountain Marmosets Conservation Programme, around the city of Teresopolis. The traps will be regularly monitored so that Rodrigo can find out where these endangered marmosets still survive, and if any non-native marmosets, which might compete with the buffy-tufted-ear marmosets for food, or hybridise with them, have moved in.

Tamarin Trust’s Dom Wormell helped to design the new conservation breeding centre for the marmosets at the University of Viçosa (see photos below). The marmosets are now breeding successfully, and as this captive population grows, the MMCP will be able to plan reintroductions of buffy-tufted-ear marmosets to protected areas of forest.