YOU can help us restore tropical forests in Brazil

HOW? By helping us grow trees for GLTs!

We purchase, plant, and maintain native tree seedlings to connect isolated patches of forests so we can expand the golden lion tamarin’s (GLT) habitat. After planting, we care for the young trees by keeping them watered and safe from pests, cattle and weeds, until they can survive on their own. In three years, the planted seedlings will be well on their way to becoming forests the GLTs and other wildlife can use!

Learn more in this 3 min video!

October through February is the rainy season in the state of Rio de Janeiro - time for planting and growing!  This season’s goal is to raise at least US$100,000 - enough to plant and care for about 12,000 native tree seedlings until they grow big enough to more than seven hectares (seventeen or more acres) of corridors that GLTs can use to connect their territories.

Every dollar of your donation will go directly to growing Trees for GLTs

You can also click HERE to find out the many ways you can donate!

Want to know more?

The main threat today to golden lion tamarins (GLTs) is that their remaining lowland Atlantic Forest habitat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is fragmented into small forest “islands,” none large enough to guarantee long-term survival of a viable population of lion tamarins. Unless sufficient remaining forest fragments are reconnected and protected very soon, the GLTs living in them will succumb to inbreeding, disease, and other environmental threats—and the species will become extinct in the wild. 

Our Brazilian partner, Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado (AMLD), is reconnecting these forest fragments by growing forest corridors that tamarins and other wildlife can cross.  From 1997 to June 2024 AMLD has planted more than 800,000 tree seedlings and restored 449 hectares (1,110 acres) of degraded pasture land to native Atlantic Forest. To support this work AMLD has trained a local network of small farmers who collect seeds of native trees in the forest, grow the tree seedlings, and earn income by selling the seedlings to reforestation efforts. AMLD purchases native tree seedlings from the tree nursery network, plants the seedlings in areas to connect key forest fragments, cares for the seedlings to make sure they thrive, and involves the local community in monitoring the growth of the forest. Check out the 2023 annual report to learn about AMLD’s  main achievements last year. 

To donate, click here or click the GLT donate button below.

Please make a real difference for tamarins and our planet with a tax-deductible donation to Trees for GLTs!