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Save the Golden Lion Tamarin is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization(EIN 20-2874701 and DUNS 60-387-3659). Its mission is to support the conservation work of the Associação Mico-Leão Dourado (AMLD- the Golden Lion Tamarin Association) in Brazil. AMLD is the premier NGO protecting species and expanding wildlife habitat for one of the most endangered and unique forests on earth – the Atlantic Forest.

Click here to read the full proposal to SavingSpecies for purchasing land in Brazil.

The Associação Mico-Leão Dourado (the Golden Lion Tamarin Association) seeks funds to purchase 140 hectares of mixed forest and cattle pasture adjacent to União Biological Reserve (REBIO União), an already existing federal protected area in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The most famous of the species that depend on this purchase is the golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) — the only primate to have temporarily escaped extinction after being successfully reintroduced into the wild. There are currently about 1500 golden lion tamarins in the wild, but the reintroduction program has been halted because of the lack of additional forest into which to put more animals. Purchase of this land would enable forest to re-grow connecting the isolated forests of REBIO União to nearby forest patches and so allow the tamarin population to expand and unite.

The Golden Lion Tamarin Association (or the Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, AMLD) was formed in Brazil in November 1992 to administer and implement the Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program. Previously administered by Dr. Devra Kleiman and her colleagues at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, leadership of the Conservation Program was shifted to Brazil to consolidate administrative duties nearer to the center of the conservation action and to turn authority for the program over to local conservationists within the range country.Save the Golden Lion Tamarin is a 501c(3) non-profit established in the U.S. to support the AMLD’s conservation efforts in Brazil. Save the Golden Lion Tamarin will be responsible for transferring the funds from the U.S. to the AMLD who will purchase the land and immediately transfer it to the Brazilian federal government agency IBAMA for incorporation into REBIO União, a Brazilian federal biological reserve. IBAMA is responsible for and competent to guarantee the long-term management and protection of the reserve.

TO LEARN MORE:

Read the Golden Lion Tamarin proposal to SavingSpecies for purchasing land in Brazil