Good news: researchers have discovered a new species of marmoset in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Bad news: the endangered species is found only in the "arc of deforestation," a section of the forest with the highest rates of land clearing and fires.
A team of researchers led by Rodrigo Costa Araújo of Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi discovered the new marmoset species named the Schneider's marmoset (Mico schneideri). The species was named after Horacio Schneider, a pioneering Brazilian scientist in the field of diversity and evolution of monkeys.
Araújo and his team noted that there are 16 marmoset species located in the arc of deforestation, but there's currently no conservation effort being made to address the loss of habitat for the animals.
Image: Rodrigo Costa Araújo