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The Black Lion Tamarin's comeback story is still being written 🖤🦁🐒

Over the past year, conservationists with Instituto Ipê Cultural monitored five groups of Black Lion Tamarins across key sites in Brazil, collecting health and genetic data that will help guide the species' future. They also completed the translocation of a second group to suitable habitat and tracked more than 1,300 movement points to better understand how these Endangered primates adapt to their new homes.

The work doesn't stop in the forest. Through environmental education programs, the team also reached more than 500 students, helping inspire the next generation of conservationists where Black Lion Tamarins live.

Every field survey, health assessment, and classroom visit helps build a stronger future for one of the world's rarest primates.

The Black Lion Tamarin is one of the first species supported by the Colossal Species Reintroduction Fund, established by the Colossal Biosciences Foundation in partnership with Re:wild.

📷: Bogdan Stans and Joao Vitor Medeiros

Conservation starts with knowing what needs the most protection! Though Madagascar covers just 0.4% of the world’s landmass, it holds 5% of all species on Earth, 90% of which exist nowhere else.

🇲🇬 For the first time in over 30 years, Madagascar has reassessed its conservation priorities. 🌱 Earlier this year, 70 experts (including 50 scientists, most of them Malagasy) came together to identify the places that matter most for the country's vital biodiversity.

The result was an agreed-upon roadmap covering over 44 MILLION ACRES (18 million hectares) to guide conservation action. This roadmap covers nearly a third of Madagascar's land for the decade ahead.

💪 This is conservation done right: locally led, science-driven, and built through collaboration!

This milestone was made possible thanks to the help of our partners , , , , and Madagascar's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.

📸: Russell Mittermeier, Re:wild Chief Conservation Officer

🌿 Nature holds stories everywhere — in forests, rivers, and sacred sites rooted in memory, culture, and connection to the land.

Re:wild is celebrates the Native Toponymy project in San Basilio de Palenque 🇨🇴 where Afro-Colombian communities are reclaiming traditional names across 8,000 acres (3,300 hectares) of cultural territory. Founded by people who freed themselves from enslavement, San Basilio de Palenque became the first free Black town in the Americas.

By documenting sacred sites, community spaces, and traditional landmarks, this work is also helping protect Colombia’s tropical dry forests, one of the country’s most threatened ecosystems.

With leadership from the Palenquero community and technical support from and , this effort continues to expand to other Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities across Colombia. Re:wild is a proud supporter of this project together with .


📷: Amazon Conservation Team