It is wonderful to see the first saplings that Tamarin Trust’s supporters have funded ready to be planted out. Thank you so much to all of those who have purchased a tree or become a Friend of Tamarin Trust. You have helped ensure that trees essential to the survival of pied tamarins will be grown in their home range in the heart of the Amazonn

Pied tamarins feed on over a hundred different species of trees, and to ensure that they can continue to survive, it is essential that  the degraded forest fragments that they still live in around the city of Manaus contain the key resources they need right throughout the year.

Marcelo Gordo, who set up our partner the Pied Tamarin Project (Projeto Sauim-de-Coleira), has a team of volunteers who regularly go out and nurture the trees that he plants and monitor how they’re growing. 

He also plants trees to form natural bridges over roads, to stop tamarins being killed by traffic as they try to reach feeding sites.

Native trees are planted where tamarins frequently cross roads, and encouraged to bend across to form natural bridges.