10 November 2023
MEDIA RELEASE by SAVE THE GOLDEN LION TAMARIN
(contact@savetheliontamarin.org)
GLTs to be featured during global trek to honor Charles Darwin’s journey
The international effort to protect golden lion tamarins will be highlighted this week as Darwin200 — a conservation mission covering more than 40,000 nautical mile voyage to 200 countries and states that is retracing Charles Darwin’s journey on the HMS Beagle — makes a stop at Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado’s (AMLD) headquarters in Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
On Sunday. Nov. 12, the project will celebrate Darwin Day at AMLD with free online presentations streamed live from the Atlantic Rainforest, including a talk by renowned ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall. Goodall’s introduction will be given by AMLD Executive Director Luis Paulo Ferraz.
The public is invited to join the live talks, which will be streamed that day on YouTube with the first event starting at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (12 p.m. UK) and the last beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST (7:30 p.m. UK). Ferraz will close Darwin Day at approximately 3:30 p.m. EST (8:30 p.m. UK) with a talk about the importance of the Atlantic Forest and AMLD's plans for restoration. They will also announce the results of the week's fundraising campaign.
Visit this webpage for a full schedule of events. The Darwin Day events will be broadcast in English with Portuguese subtitles.
Rio de Janeiro is the fifth of 32 ports on the Darwin200 journey, which aims to change the world for the better by empowering 200 next generation leaders of conservation. During the stop in Rio de Janeiro, Charles Darwin’s great-great-grand-daughter Dr. Sarah Darwin will join DARWIN200 Cofounder and Project Leader Stewart McPherson and a team of volunteers at AMLD’s Golden Lion Tamarin Ecological Park, to plant 8,000 native trees while raising awareness and funds to support AMLD’s forest restoration efforts. Follow daily updates on the tree planting from the Darwin200 Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/darwin2002021/.
The forest restoration program helps consolidate and connect several isolated blocks of GLT habitat to achieve a science-based goal of 25,000 hectares (61,776 acres) of connected forest — a block large enough to maintain a genetically and demographically healthy population that will keep the species from extinction.
The U.S-based Save the Golden Lion Tamarin nonprofit organization works in partnership with AMLD to protect GLTs.
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Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado
Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado (AMLD) is a Brazilian nonprofit established in 1992 that is responsible for coordinating all efforts to save Golden Lion Tamarins in their native forest and protect the benefits that the forest provides to local people. AMLD works on the ground in Rio de Janeiro to monitor GLTs and forests, advocate for restoration of the Atlantic Forest, plant forest corridors, and engage local people in protecting their forest. www.micoleao.org.br
Save the Golden Lion Tamarin
Save the Golden Lion Tamarin (SGLT) is a U.S.-based public charity that provides technical and financial support to help Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado achieve our shared vision of saving GLTs and the habitat they depend upon for survival www.SavetheLionTamarin.org
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Save the Golden Lion Tamarin