NGO ORGANIZES EFFORT TO PROTECT MICO SPECIES AT EXTINCTION RISK
There has recently been some excellent media coverage of our conservation program (known locally in Brazil as PCSS) with 3 online articles and a feature in the Tribuna de Petrópolis newspaper about the ongoing research and threats to the bu...
Buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps) listed as ENDANGERED for over 36 years, finally becomes the focus of a conservation program!
The Buffy headed marmosets range is northeast of the Buffy tufted-ear marmoset (C. aurita) and extends into the States of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. The last I...
In July 2018, Dominc Wormell travelled to Brazil to catch up with Dr. Rodrigo Salles de Carvalho who coordinates the Mountain Marmoset Conservation Program
What happens when you combine primate pets and wild marmosets with urbanised forest fragmentation?
Over the last 100 years the South-eastern Atlantic Rain forest has been reduced to approx 7% of its former coverage, there are thousands of fragments and connectivity between the significant ones are surel...
The need to create a safeguard population for the Buffy Tufted-ear marmoset isn’t a new concept...
The origins go back to 1982 when the Rio de Janeiro Primatology Center (Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro – CPRJ) responded to concerns about its status in the wild. (Coimbra-Filho, 1971, 1986, 1990...
