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

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

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

Tamarin Trust’s founder, Dom Wormell, has been working for the conservation of tamarins in Colombia for two decades. Here he describes what he experienced in a trip to the country in September 2025, and how it contrasts with what he found on his first visit. “More than twenty years ago, I found myself in a Read more

The golden-headed lion tamarin or Bahian lion tamarin, Leontopithecus chrysomelas, is one of the 17 endangered primate species endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The species is in the National Action Plan for Atlantic Forest Primates and the Maned Sloth. Its habitat is fast disappearing with the expansion of cattle ranching and urban areas eating into the Read more

Gale Glendewar works with Tamarin Trust to facilitate and teach workshops on the conservation management of marmosets and tamarins. She has worked for over 20 years with many mammal species, particularly those that need conservation assurance populations in captivity, and has taught on a series of workshops in Colombia and Brazil, mostly recently with Tamarin Read more

Following the rescue centre conference in Brasilia, we travelled to Bahia to visit Leonardo Carvalho Oliveira and Danilo Simonini, who are actively involved in the conservation of golden-headed lion tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) in Ilhéus. This species is endangered, and their situation mirrors that of many others: over 40% of their habitat has been lost in Read more

It was a great honour for Tamarin Trust to be invited by IBAMA, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, to participate in its National Rescue Centre Conference in Brasília in August. Our invitation came through Taiana Beskov Barros, a coordinator and analyst for rescue centres, who attended the workshop we ran Read more

The Tamarin Trust is partnering in a new conservation initiative focused on the endangered golden-headed lion tamarin in the Brazilian state of Bahia. This comes in response to an escalating crisis, as rapid agricultural, urban expansion and road development continue to fragment the tamarins’ natural habitat. Much of its forest habitat is being converted into Read more

We’re thrilled to share wonderful news from the Mountain Marmoset Conservation Programme: the team is receiving a brand-new 4×4 vehicle. This much-needed upgrade will transform their ability to reach some of the most remote and rugged areas of south-eastern Brazil—critical habitats for the buffy tufted-ear marmoset and the buffy-headed marmoset. These elusive and highly threatened species are now Read more