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  • Saving the pied tamarin: A visit to Manaus

    In his latest update from his recent visit to Brazil, Tamarin Trust founder Dom Wormell reports on the project to save the pied tamarin. We arrived at a small patch of scrubby urban forest running alongside the Mindu River, which still cuts its way through Manaus. Even before getting out of the car, you could…

  • ASZK raises over £2000 for Tamarin Trust to build tamarin bridge

    We are incredibly grateful to the Australasian Society of Zookeeping (ASZK), which has raised $4,000 Australian dollars – over £2000 – for Tamarin Trust through the 2026 ASZK Neotropical Primate Conference.  The funds will be used to support vital conservation work for callitrichid species in Brazil. On 10th September, 112 keepers from around the world…

  • Estrada the rescued golden-headed lion tamarin: Latest update

    Good news! Estrada, the rescued golden-headed lion tamarin, continues to do well after release. She was found a few days ago with a male from another tamarin group. It looks like she is trying to find a new territory with her new mate away from her family group. Estrada was probably evicted from her original…

  • New video: Interviews with mountain marmoset conservationists

    We have just put together a short documentary about the conservation work being carried out to conserve the last populations of buffy tufted-ear marmosets, and their habitats. Tamarin Trust supports and works with the Mountain Marmoset Conservation Programme in Brazil and we have put together a series of interviews with the passionate people working to…

  • Tamarins engulfed by the city: A visit to the project to save golden-headed lion tamarins

    Dom Wormell, founder of Tamarin Trust, in his first project update from his recent trip to Brazil, reports on a visit to the home of the golden-headed lion tamarin in Bahia, northeastern Brazil, where tamarins are living in an increasingly fragmented habitat and face daily dangers on roads and power lines. One of Tamarin Trust’s…

  • Brazil field visit: hopes, challenges and a future for threatened tamarins and marmosets

    Dom Wormell, founder of Tamarin Trust, has just got back from a trip to Brazil to meet up with our partners and see how the projects we support are doing. In this post, both Dom and Tamarin Trust supporter Quentin Bloxam, who went along too, talk about what they saw and their hopes for the…

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