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Rehab center opens for Brazil’s golden-headed lion tamarins amid urban sprawl threat

Rehab center opens for Brazil’s golden-headed lion tamarins amid urban sprawl threat

Brazil has opened its first rehabilitation center for golden-headed lion tamarins, an endangered monkey species threatened by urban expansion and the loss of agroforestry farms to monocrop plantations. The tamarins, Leontopithecus chrysomelas, have been filmed in and around Ilhéus, a coastal city in

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