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Poço das Antas Biological Reserve (Portuguese: Reserva Biológica Poço das Antas) is a biological reserve located in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.
The reserve, which covers 5,052 hectares (12,480 acres) in the Atlantic Forest biome, was created on 11 March 1974. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.The reserve is in the municipality of Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro. The terrain is relatively flat, with elevations from 14 to 205 metres (46 to 673 ft). Average annual rainfall is 2,400 millimetres (94 in).
Temperatures range from 18 to 35 °C (64 to 95 °F) with an average of 23 °C (73 °F). The São João River defines the boundary of the reserve, which is laced with small springs, channels and streams.
Plans to reintroduce native fauna
Atlantic Forest, Brazil
1. Various of Golden Lion Tamarin with baby on back
2. Golden Lion Tamarin eating
3. Golden Lion Tamarin eating
4. Close-up of Golden Lion Tamarin
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Denise Rambaldi, Golden Lion Tamarin Association:
It was a dream a long time ago. It was a sort of dream and it was a goal to reach and I think we are doing so well. We find a way to reach these numbers and the most important issue is to save the forest because forests for us represents water, represents soil, represents climate, represents everything - that is really important.
6. Various of reserve worker radio tracking the Golden Lion Tamarins
7. Golden Lion Tamarin with radio collar
8. Various of Golden Lion Tamarins
9. Farming and pullout to urban development around Atlantic Forest
10. Cows
11. Wide shot farming
12. Various aerials of Atlantic Forest
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Garo Batmanian, Executive Director, WWF Brazil:
We are winning the battle but we are far from winning the war. We need 2000 animals in the wild and especially, we need them living in 25,000 hectares of forest and that has been the problem. We don't have forests enough for the expected increase in population of the animals and this is now the key for the survival of the species and the success of the project.
14. Various of education programme at Poco das Antas Biological Reserve
15. Children following the teacher into the Forest Poco das Antas Biological Reserve
16. Golden Lion Tamarin
17. Wide of Forest
London, UK
18. GV London Zoo
19. Various of Golden Lion Tamarins in London Zoo
Atlantic Forest, Brazil
20. Various of Golden Lion Tamarins back in the wild
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Celebrations are underway in Brazil this week after the birth of a baby Golden Lion Tamarin - one of the most critically endangered animals on earth.
Just thirty years ago, there were only 2-hundred of the small fiery gold creatures left - now - this birth brings the number to a thousand.
The international conservation organisation, the WWF, which has been involved in the desperate bid to save the tamarin and its Atlantic Forest habitat, say that's why this event is so important.
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A tiny baby Tamarin, born just weeks ago with its mother and father.
Within months the infant will be independent, living with its family group in the trees and eating fruit and insects.
This baby Golden Lion Tamarin represents a great hope for the survival of the species from extinction.
Its birth brings the wild population of the species to one-thousand for the first time in decades.
In the early 1970's, due to habitat destruction and capture for pets, there were only a few hundred left.
That's why this event is such a milestone.
The Golden Lion Tamarin project, supported by the international conservation organisation, WWF, is a remarkable success story.
That's because increasing the populations of animals on the verge of extinction isn't easy.
They are only found in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state and the destruction of this habitat is a major threat.
After the forests of Madagascar, the Atlantic Forest is the world's second most endangered vegetation type.
Along the coast, the forest has been cut down for urban and resort development while further inland, it was cut for conversion to agriculture and cattle pasture.
Once, the lowland Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro covered an area about the size of Egypt.
Now, less than two percent is left.
Changing attitudes are also vital to the success of increasing numbers of Golden Lion Tamarin as well as to the quality of the environment for the people who live in the region.
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Meeting the tiny monkeys saved from extinction
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A must-see attraction during the Olympic games can be found in the forests of Rio state.
A tiny creature that was once nearly extinct, has bounced back from the brink and is filling the rainforest with its shrill cries once again.
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This little monkey has survived near extinction.
The Golden Lion Tamarin makes its home in Silva Jardim, just 70 kilometres from the bustle of Rio.
The tiny flaming orange monkey crouches on a tree branch, making high-pitched whistles and yaps, cautiously greeting other tamarins in the forest.
That the cries of Brazil's endangered golden lion tamarins should fill the air at all is a cause for celebration, the result of one of the world's most inspired species restoration efforts.
The IUCN says the wild population of Golden Lion Tamarins is now around 3,200. In the 1990s there were only 150 in Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.
For centuries, the little golden monkeys had been exported as pets and as exhibits in zoos around the world.
Today Rio state is the only place in the world where the Tamarins live in the wild.
The first push to save the tamarins began in the early 1970s, when a Brazilian researcher found their once-teeming numbers dwindling as cities and farms ate into the forest.
Once the alarm was sounded, researchers in Brazil and abroad began working together on a labour of love that would consume decades. Their first goal: learning how to encourage the monkeys to mate.
The rescuers then turned to their most challenging task: reviving the forest, which covers Brazil's most populated region, and gradually reintroducing the monkey into the wild.
The Poco das Antas biological reserve in Rio state was set up to preserve the Tamarin's habitat.
It provides the most stringent form of protection possible, setting aside public land to be used only for research and education.
Groups of visitors not exceeding twenty people are encouraged to visit the Golden Lion Tamarins at the preserved forest within a cattle farm two hours away from the city of Rio.
After walking across a field, the group enters a forest path led by a guide equipped with a radio detector, capable of locating the monkeys, some of which have been equipped with radio collars.
Oberlan Cabral Junior works for the Golden Lion Tamarin Association as a specialist guide. He explains the defensive stance of the males.
The function of these individuals is just that, they are guarding the area, vigilantly protecting their family.
Timo Marinissen, a tourist from Holland says he thinks eco-tourism projects like this one a good idea.
The efforts they're putting with the local landowners, so I think it's also a good way to contribute as a tourist, to spend some money which benefits the monkey in a certain way. So I think it's a very good way and that's also what the guy's telling us about this morning how to help to preserve the monkeys.
In 1983, researchers started introducing the golden monkeys into the wild only to watch with heartbreak as the naive zoo-bred animals met tragic deaths because they failed to recognize panthers and other predators or find shelter or food.
Three decades later, the population has multiplied in all of Rio state, with each Tamarin an expert in identifying the 150 types of fruits, berries, shoots and insects it can survive on, says Andreia Martins, field coordinator for the Golden Lion Tamarin Association, the main Brazilian group working to save the monkeys.
Around forty percent of the wild population nowadays descends from tamarins who came from zoos. We made reintroductions between 1984 until 2002 when we introduced the last ones. explains Martins.
When the reserve began in 1974, roughly 100 Tamarins lived in the area. Now there are 250.
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