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

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

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

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

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

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