Category: News
General news about the charity.
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Tamarin Trust’s conservation impact
As we come to the end of our first two years, we thought you would be interested to see just how much we have achieved already with your support. As you can see from the figure below, most of the funds we’ve raised have gone directly to frontline conservation efforts. We have excellent relationships with Brazilian Read more
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First birth in new buffy-headed marmoset breeding programme
In wonderful news, the first birth in the newly established ex-situ conservation breeding programme for the critically endangered buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps), has occurred at the Mountain Marmoset Conservation Centre at Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This is certainly the rarest marmoset species on earth, and this birth represents a huge milestone for the future conservation Read more
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Video update: Helping golden-headed lion tamarins at risk in Bahia
Here is a quick video update on our collaboration with the Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin Conservation Project. Tamarin Trust is supporting efforts to help this beautiful species in its home state of Bahia, Brazil. These monkeys are at increasing threat from habitat loss, forcing them to cross roads and power lines, and raid shops for food. Read more
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Hear directly from participants on our primate conservation husbandry workshop in Brazil
In December of 2025, Tamarin Trust, Zoomelhor and our partners in Brazil ran a primate conservation husbandry workshop at Sapucaia zoo, Rio Grande do Sul. We had a hugely positive response and we can now share a video featuring comments from participants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdOgoub2qhg In the video you will hear from Leandro Jerusalinsky, who works with Read more
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Tamarin Trust’s partners say thank you for your support
Our partners in Brazil are very grateful for your support and have sent messages of thanks. Please take a look at the video below: The people you will hear from are: Your help has been incredibly important for all these projects, and together we can continue to secure a future for these wonderful primates. We Read more
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Thank you so much for your support for Tamarin Trust
At the beginning of a new year, we have been looking back at our achievements since we first started Tamarin Trust. The charity has only been going for a relatively short period of time, but together we have made great progress, helping to strengthen the chances of survival of some of the most threatened tamarins Read more
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A Refuge in the City: Fighting for Brazil’s Mountain Marmosets
A high-pitched, searing call pierced the air from behind a towering wall topped with razor wire. It was the unmistakable sound of a mountain marmoset – the buffy-tufted ear marmoset – calling from within a tiny fragment of forest hidden in the heart of the city. We walked along the outside of the wall until Read more
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Conservation husbandry workshop in Rio Grande do Sul
At the beginning of December 2025, Tamarin Trust, with our partners Zoomelhor, coordinated a conservation husbandry workshop in southern Brazil, bringing together rescue centres, zoos, universities, and government agencies to improve the management of primates in human care and threatened primate populations in the wild. The workshop, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Read more
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Fighting for pied tamarins in the Amazon
All is not well for a tiny primate living in the centre of the Amazon rainforest, but its fight for survival will help the fight to save the largest rainforest in the world. Tamarin Trust’s founder, Dom Wormell, shares his impressions and hopes for the conservation of the pied tamarin. I could have been walking Read more
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Reforesting the Amazon for the Monkey of Manaus
The Amazon rainforest — the lungs of our planet — is disappearing at an alarming rate. Vast areas once rich in wildlife and towering trees have been reduced to barren land. But together, we can bring life back. Tamarin Trust is raising funds to support a fantastic new initiative to buy native seeds and seedlings Read more
Saving the world’s smallest monkeys from extinction