The race to save the Amazon's bushy-bearded monkeys

Sinop, Brazil (AFP) April 4, 2025

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon. Never before had he seen one of the striking creatures emerge from the forest. The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), had ventured far from its fast-shrinking home on