![]() ![]() She knew that, without any intervention, they were doomed.īiologist Clariane Caroline de Araujo climbs onto a platform in a protected area of forest to feed a group of northern muriqui monkeys, in Lima Duarte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Saturday, May 6, 2023. ![]() In 2016, Fernanda Pedreira Tabacow, a former student and right arm of Strier’s, heard that there were only two muriqui males left in a patch of forest in Ibitipoca, southwest of the Feliciano Miguel Abdala reserve. Strier and her team know each of the reserve’s 232 muriquis by name, and which monkey they are related to, not by tagging or marking them, but based on detailed illustrations of their facial pigments and other physical traits.Īfter drought and a yellow fever outbreak killed 100 muriquis - about a third of the reserve’s population - in just five years, Strier has strongly advocated for the creation of forest corridors and supporting species reintroduction projects. “There are very few (primate projects) that have run that long, continuously, and of that kind of quality in the world,” said American primatologist Russell Mittermeier, chief conservation officer at Re:wild, who introduced Strier to the muriquis. That’s about one-fifth of the critically endangered species’ overall population. Inside the 2,300-acre (950-hectare) Feliciano Miguel Abdala reserve, a privately protected area where Strier has based her research program, the northern muriqui population has grown nearly fivefold, to 232.
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