Staff
Arnaud Desbiez, Convenor
Patricia Medici
Recent Workshops
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Conservation Decision Making Course
• IUCN/SSC Species Conservation Planning Sub-Committee Meeting
· Symposium + Conservation Planning workshop in
Djibouti
· Scimitar-horned Oryx Conservation Planning Meeting
Highlighted Activity
CBSG Brasil is planning a PVA workshop in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina, on the brown howler monkey (Alouatta guariba ssp.), scheduled to take place in March 2013. Since early 2005, a small group of biologists of the NGO Centro de Investigaciones del Bosque Atlántico (CeIBA) and of the Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS – sede Iguazú, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Univ. Nacional de Misiones) has undertaken comparative studies on distribution, behavior and ecology of the small Argentinean population of brown howler monkey (Alouatta guariba ssp. clamitans) and the sympatric congener black and gold howlers (Alouatta caraya) in the Province of Misiones, in northeastern Argentina. In 2008 and 2009, severe yellow fever epidemics struck and decimated populations of both species, driving the already small population of brown howlers to the verge of extinction in Misiones. This situation makes conservation action urgent. In order to establish conservation priorities for this species and its habitat in Argentina, it has become critical to assess the current brown howler population status, the main threats, and the potential management of alternatives that are most likely to be effective with the objective of preserving the species.
