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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…