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Conservationists in Brazil have built a monkey bridge to help a group of endangered primates cross a busy dual carriageway. The Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro is the only place in the world where the golden lion tamarins still exist in the wild. Conservationists came up with the idea to help the species to roam across a bigger area amid concerns they had been confined to a small part of the forest because of the road.

Luis Paulo Marques Ferraz is the executive director of the project and of Brazil鈥檚 Golden Lion Tamarin Association in Rio de Janeiro. He told Newsday without the new structure communities of the monkeys would be cut off from each other. But they are not using it yet.

鈥淭he construction finished last year (but) the tamarins... need trees to move from one forest fragment to the
other. The trees have been planted and now we have to wait for the trees to grow and for the animals to feel comfortable to use it. But building this structure also helps other animals and other terrestrial animals are already using it. But for the tamarins we need to wait a little bit more."

"The idea is to have this forest connection built for a long time. So this is the beginning of a process. We have planted the trees and now we have to wait. We know that they are going to use (it) because we know we have tamarins on both sides of the landscape. And it's very important that genetically these groups can move from one side to the other to make this conservation project sustainable in the long term."

(Pic: Golden lion tamarins ; Credit: Andreia Martins/ AMLD )

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