10% of their diet is prey including insects and frogs. Only 6,000 golden headed lion tamarins remain in the wild. Their decline is a result of severe habitat loss and climate change that decreases ...

Luís Paulo Ferraz, executive director of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association ... “We leave from Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday morning and head down to Punta del Este, to Uruguay, and start ...

Join a world-class effort to save tamarins from the brink of extinction in Brazil’s most critically important forest. Seeing a family of golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) in the mystical ...

A group of golden lion tamarins are seen in a tree during an observation tour at a private partner property of the golden lion tamarin ecological park in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim ...

Following 30 years of work to save one of the world's most endangered primates, IUCN - The World Conservation Union today announced that the golden lion tamarin is no longer critically endangered.

Golden lion tamarins were once classified as critically ... but the joey had only been seen poking its head out of mum Nora’s pouch. West Midlands Safari Park counts up its creatures, including ...

Trees are covered in bromeliads which are the perfect habitat for foraging golden-headed lion tamarins. We wanted to take the viewer up into the world of the primates, so we developed a specialist ...

Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.