Golden Lion Tamarins are endangered, occurring only in Brazil’s Atlantic Forests, which have been mostly cleared. However, many small patches of suitable tamarin habitat remain on privately owned land.

In a paper co-authored by Professor Ralf Buckley, Griffith’s International Chair in Ecotourism Researchin the School of Environment, and Dr Fernanda de Vasconcellos Pegas, from the Griffith Institute for Tourism, it is revealed that small-scale financial support to local landowners is a highly cost-effective way to help tamarin conservation.

The paper is published in the open access journalFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution.