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CONSERVATION PROJECTS

Conservation of the Amazon marmosets (2017–present)

R. Costa-Araújo, G. Bergamasco, C. Saragossa, J. Albuquerque, A. Thomas & T. Hrbek

Project leader. Overall goal: develop, implement, and advocate for the adoption of a framework for the protection of biodiversity, traditional and indigenous communities, and mitigation of climate change and extinction crisis in the Amazonian arc of deforestation using the 16 marmoset species of Mico and Callibella genera as flagship species.

Best Practice Guidelines for the Management and

Conservation of Primates in Fragments (2018–present)

Multi-institutional project – lead by L. Marsh and colleagues

General co-editor, co-coordinator of the Brazil section and collaborator in the sections of Genetics, Conservation, Modelling and Translocation. Overall goal: to develop a global guidelines of best practices for research, management, and conservation of all primate species with populations living in forest fragments.

Houseboat Amazon (2016–2018)

Global Conservation Institute & IDSM – lead by L. Marsh

Manaus Support and local coordinator. Overall goal: to search for Pithecia vanzolinii, collect data on its distribution and ecology, as well as to understanding local ecological knowledge and traditions related to use of forest resources in order to assess the impact on biodiversity.

Programme for displacement of Golden-headed lion tamarins Leontopithecus chrysomelas invasive in the area of occurrence of the Golden lion tamarins L. rosalia in Rio de Janeiro (2012–2014)

Multi-institutional project – lead by C. Kierulff / Instituto Pri-Matas

Coordinator of reintroduction and post-release monitoring. Overall goal: to reintroduce and to monitor in situ populations of Golden-headed lion tamarins Leontopithecus chrysomelas in southern Bahia, Brazil.