Saving the world’s smallest monkeys from extinctionRoad bridges and trees for pied tamarins
When the news that comes in from the Amazon makes you feel depressed and with little hope for the future, people like Marcelo Gordo can lift your mood and give you optimism for the future. He plants trees in the city of Manaus and in surrounding areas. He has created a small nursery in the…
Pied tamarin conservation workshop, Manaus, Brazil
In November, Tamarin Trust, along with our colleagues, the Brazilian species conservation agency ICMBio, and Toledo Zoo, ran a workshop on the conservation and captive care of pied tamarins. This incredible monkey is only found in and around the Amazonian city of Manaus. It is critically endangered, and many tamarins are living in tiny fragments…
New research highlights threat to pied tamarins
A team of Brazilian conservationists led by Diogo Lagroteria has published new information on one of the threats to the population of pied tamarins around Manaus in Amazonia. The red-handed tamarin, a widespread species, is moving into the area that used to be home only to pied tamarins, and may be pushing pied tamarins closer…
Tamarin Trust supports Mountain Marmosets Conservation Programme (MMCP)
Tamarin Trust has recently funded camera traps for vital survey work on the buffy-tufted-ear marmoset being carried out by Rodrigo de Carvalho (above right), founder of the Mountain Marmosets Conservation Programme, around the city of Teresopolis. The traps will be regularly monitored so that Rodrigo can find out where these endangered marmosets still survive, and…
Pied tamarin rescue centre workshop in November
In November, Tamarin Trust’s Dom Wormell will be co-leading a workshop in Manaus with ICMBio focused on the care of rescued pied tamarins in the city at the CETAS rescue centre and the CIGS zoo. The workshop is being funded by Toledo Zoo in the USA and staff from both Toledo Zoo and Apenheul in…
Golden-headed lion tamarin to become city’s symbol
The muncipality of Iheus in the Brazilian state of Bahia has approved a draft law to make the golden-headed lion tamarin, or Bahian lion tamarin, the city’s official symbol. March 26 will be Bahian Lion Tamarin Day. This follows on from the recent naming of the buffy-headed marmoset as part of the municipality of Portiuncula’s…