Thank you, Jeremy Mallinson!

“This year marks 50 years since the first efforts to protect Brazil’s golden lion tamarins began. It has become one of the region’s most innovative and inspiring conservation stories”, writes Jeremy Mallinson OBE FRSB, Director Emeritus of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, in this article Vol 67 No 6 / The Biologist. The article is an excellent summary of this conservation story, especially the role zoos have played to save all four species of lion tamarins. Jeremy has been involved in all 50 years. He served on all four International Recovery and Management Committees established by the Brazilian Government for each of the lion tamarin species: golden lion tamarin, golden-headed lion tamarin, black lion tamarin, and the black-faced lion tamarin – each native to different parts of the Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. In 2015 Save the Golden Lion Tamarin appointed Jeremy as an ambassador for the lion tamarins of Brazil. 

From all of us of the “GLT Family” thank you/obrigado, Jeremy Mallinson, for your 50 years of contributions to assure a future for this and many other endangered species.