CARATINGA, Brazil: The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-gray monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon. READ HERE:
Karen Strier started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the animals left in this swath of the Atlantic forest, in southeastern Brazil's Minas Gerais state.Strier immediately fell in love with the northern muriqui, dedicating her life to saving it and launching one of the world's longest-running primate studies.
That's about one-fifth of the critically endangered species' overall population.'There are very few 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.
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