| Autor: |
Dietz JM; Save the Golden Lion Tamarin, Silver Spring, Maryland, 22842, USA. jmdietz@umd.edu.; Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, Casimiro de Abreu, CP 109968, CEP 28860-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. jmdietz@umd.edu., Hankerson SJ; Department of Psychology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55403, USA., Alexandre BR; Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Campus Praia Vermelha, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 24210-240, Brazil., Henry MD; Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, Casimiro de Abreu, CP 109968, CEP 28860-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.; Instituto de Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade (NUPEM/UFRJ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Avenida São José do Barreto 764, São José do Barreto, Macaé, CEP 27965-045, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Martins AF; Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, Casimiro de Abreu, CP 109968, CEP 28860-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Ferraz LP; Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, Casimiro de Abreu, CP 109968, CEP 28860-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Ruiz-Miranda CR; Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, Casimiro de Abreu, CP 109968, CEP 28860-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.; Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, CEP 28013-602, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| Abstrakt: |
The golden lion tamarin is an endangered primate endemic to Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Centuries of deforestation reduced numbers to a few hundred individuals in isolated forest fragments 80 km from Rio de Janeiro city. Intensive conservation action including reintroduction of zoo-born tamarins into forest fragments 1984-2000, increased numbers to about 3,700 in 2014. Beginning in November 2016, southeastern Brazil experienced the most severe yellow fever epidemic/epizootic in the country in 80 years. In May 2018, we documented the first death of a golden lion tamarin due to yellow fever. We re-evaluated population sizes and compared them to results of a census completed in 2014. Tamarin numbers declined 32%, with ca. 2,516 individuals remaining in situ. Tamarin losses were significantly greater in forest fragments that were larger, had less forest edge and had better forest connectivity, factors that may favor the mosquito vectors of yellow fever. The future of golden lion tamarins depends on the extent of additional mortality, whether some tamarins survive the disease and acquire immunity, and the potential development of a vaccine to protect the species against yellow fever. |
