August 2nd - International GLT Day
A Global Celebration of Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation
Wherever you are - join us on August 2nd to celebrate
GLT Day 2024!
Share with us on social media with #GLTDay2024:
Your support of conservation by visiting your local accredited Zoo and taking a photo of GLTs
Your romantic side by writing a poem about GLTs
Your artistic side by drawing, painting or making a craft of a GLT
Your musical side by recording a song about GLTs
Your moves by recording a video of a dance or skit about GLTs
Watch this 5-min video update in English from Brazil (AMLD’s Executive Director, Luis Paulo Ferraz) on last year’s conservation accomplishments and remaining challenges.
Learn more about growing Trees for GLTs and how to donate to this campaign.
Watch a film about GLT conservation and share the link with friends. To help you choose which ones to watch or share, click here to download synopses of all ten films in the playlist.
Learn something new about GLTs and share it on social media:
Read the GLT Fact Sheet and About GLTs page to understand the basic biology and conservation status of GLTs
Find current information about GLTs on our FAQs page and our 2023 Annual Report
Discover the four different species of lion tamarins and all other Primates living in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest with this awesome Pocket Identification Guide
Resources for Zoos & Aquariums Staff:
If you work in a Zoo or Aquarium with GLTs, check out these ideas to help you explore lessons and activities about golden lion tamarins and celebrate GLT Day!
Conduct a fundraiser for Trees for GLTs. Download our Trees for GLTs QR code to help your public donate to this campaign
Download our collection of GLT Conservation photos to produce your own materials and activities
Use your problem-solving skills to connect forest fragments and expand the habitat of golden lion tamarins by playing the Tamarin Connections activity
Find your Flagship Species to inspire people to protect and appreciate nature in their own community
Make enrichment for GLTs
Make a GLT Day banner
Make a GLT Day photo station
Don’t forget to share your activities on social media with #GLTDay2024
How did our International GLT Day start?
Golden Lion Tamarin Day – August 2, 2016 - download the video!
One of AMLD’s strategies to engage the local community in GLT conservation is to increase pride in the local forest and recognition that GLTs exist nowhere else in the world. On August 2, 2016, Andreia Martins, coordinator of the field team who monitors GLTs, carried the Olympic Flame through the region on its way to the Rio Olympic Games.
With local schools and businesses, AMLD organized a celebration in Silva Jardim, Andreia’s home town, recognizing Andreia and her field team as local heroes. Silva Jardim, is also where the largest population of wild GLTs live, in the federally protected Poço das Antas Biological Reserve and in the forest on private land. The Silva Jardim Municipal Council officially recognized August 2, 2016 as “Dia do Mico-Leão-Dourado” (Golden Lion Tamarin Day). AMLD and SGLT started celebrating International GLT Day the following year on August 2nd, 2017, and have supported GLT fans around the world in celebrating this day ever since.
In 2018, the Brazilian government officially declared August 2 as National Golden Lion Tamarin Day. Learn more about past GLT Day celebrations here.
2017 Brazilian Zoo Society's Year of the Golden Lion Tamarin - click here to download the video!
Produced in 2017 for use in a year-long educational campaign conducted by Brazilian Zoos, this film summarizes the history of golden lion tamarin conservation, current challenges, and conservation action.