Mountain Marmosets Conservation Program

11/05/2026

❤️🐒Wishing you a great week with the wonderful buggy-tufted-ear mountain marmoset, Callithrix aurita ❤️🐒

11/04/2026

🐒❤️Great fantastic news from the UK 🇬🇧🐒

🙏🐒It’s now illegal to keep any primate as a pet🏆🎊

11/04/2026

🐒❤️How about becoming a friend of the Tamarin Trust to help save tamarinds and marmosets in Brazil? Here’s a message from Professor Julio Cesar Bicca Marques 🇧🇷 ❤️🐒

09/04/2026

❤️🐒Thank you Dr Ian Singleton for your support and dedication! 🐒❤️

🏆🐒We can all help the tamarins and mountain marmosets in Brazil by becoming a friend of the Tamarin Trust 🐒🏆

09/04/2026

❤️🐒Please become a friend of the Tamarin Trust so the can help the Mountain Marmosets Conservation Program carry on its work for the conservation of the mountain marmosets in Brazil 🐒❤️ Thank you Dr Ian Singleton 🙏🏆

09/04/2026

😍🙏 😍🙏 A young mountain marmoset, one of the rarest primates in the world. This species of primate is considered at high risk of extinction. This is a Callithrix flaviceps juvenile born in the first captive breeding program for two highly endangered mountain marmosets species. The mountain marmosets Conservation Centre /UFV Centro de Conservação dos Saguis-da-Serra /UFV carries out a pioneering and fantastic work in reproduction for the conservation of mountain marmosets 🐒📸

Thank you Tamarin Trust for your support and dissemination❤️

📸Photo by Fabiano Melo

www.tamarintrust.org

A juvenile of the rarest marmoset in the world. This is a little infant born in the first ever captive breeding programme for the highly threatened primate. Fantastic work by the mountain marmoset conservation breeding centre. Pic Fabiano Melo. www.tamarintrust.org

06/04/2026

🐒❤️How can you help fight invasive species, without making much effort and without spending absolutely any money! See everything about the subject in this sensational publication of ICMBio and Tijuca National Park - ICMBio Parque Nacional da Tijuca - ICMBio🐒👍

05/04/2026

🐣🐒 With the birth of beautiful buffy-tufted-ear marmosets at the Conservation Centre /UFV Centro de Conservação dos Saguis-da-Serra /UFV the MMCP wishes everyone a wonderful Easter🐣🐒❤️

04/04/2026

🐒❤️Thank you Portal Petrópolis for the excellent article and Mariano Sant' Anna for your incredible park ranger work 🤗🙏

‘A family of buffy-tufted-ear marmosets (Callithrix aurita) was registered in the area of the State Natural Monument of Serra da Maria Comprida, a conservation unit located in Petrópolis. The animals (a male, a female and an infant) were identified during the Carnival holiday, by the park ranger Mariano Sant'Ana, during monitoring a trail. The species is endemic to the Atlantic Forest and considered one of the most threatened primates on the planet.

The mountain marmoset its habitat threatened mainly by the dispute with invasive species such as the Callithrix jacchus, they compete for food and territory, and generate hybrids with the native species, causing an impact on the maintenance of the populations of the mountain marmosets.

The mountain marmosets are mainly found on mountain ranges in the Southeast region, the species is a small primate easily identifiable by its white face, which is at odds with its dark coat. Reproduction focusses from September to November, when there is plenty of food, especially insects. The species has a great seed dispersing potential.’

Uma família pura de sagui-da-serra-escuro ou sagui-caveirinha (Callithrix aurita) foi registrada em área do Monumento Natural Estadual da Serra da Maria Comprida, unidade de conservação situada em Petrópolis. Os animais (um macho, uma fêmea e um filhote) foram identificados durante o feriadão de Carnaval, pelo guarda-parque Mariano Sant’Ana, durante monitoramento de uma trilha. A espécie é endêmica da Mata Atlântica e considerada um dos primatas mais ameaçados do planeta.

O sagui-caveirinha tem seu habitat ameaçado principalmente pela disputa com espécies invasoras como o mico-estrela, que competem por alimentação e território, e geram híbridos com a espécie nativa, causando impacto na manutenção das populações dos saguis-caveirinha.

Encontrado principalmente em cadeias montanhosas da região Sudeste, a espécie é um pequeno primata facilmente identificável por sua face branca, que destoa de sua pelagem escura. A reprodução concentra-se de setembro a novembro, quando há fartura de alimento, principalmente insetos. A espécie apresenta um grande potencial dispersor de sementes.

📸 Divulgação

30/03/2026

❤️🐒Thank you Shaldon Wildlife Trust for the wonderful post🐒❤️
Many congratulations to Centro de Conservação dos Saguis-da-Serra /UFV and Tamarin Trust for all the incredible work and dedication as these infants are the future of the species 🐒❤️

26/03/2026

🐒😢Rest in peace Dr Biruté Galdikas 😢🐒