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Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this past week in Rio de Janeiro's rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for the region's most emblematic and endangered species: the golden lion tamarin. The 300 tree seedlings they planted — only inches tall at present — will eventually connect two patches of forest together. It is the latest in a series of incremental forest growth initiatives driven by environmentalists, providing an ever-larger habitat for the monkey. Until recently, the bare and dry land they were replanting belon...

Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this past week in Rio de Janeiro's rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for the region's most emblematic and endangered species: the golden lion tamarin. The 300 tree seedlings they planted — only inches tall at present — will eventually connect two patches of forest together. It is the latest in a series of incremental forest growth initiatives driven by environmentalists, providing an ever-larger habitat for the monkey. Until recently, the bare and dry land they were replanting belon...

Imagine a mountainous and remote rainforest along the ocean coast.

EXCLUSIVE: Young conservationists have gathered from all corners of the globe to help save Brazil's golden lion tamarin monkey from extinction. The iconic and beloved small orange primates are under threat due to the loss of their natural habitat in the Atlantic Forest.

Rampant deforestation in Brazil has devastated the only place in the world where golden lion tamarins can be found.