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Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this past week in Rio de Janeiro s rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for the region s most emblematic and endangered species: the golden lion tamarin. The 300 tree seedlings they planted — only inches tall at present — will eventually connect two patches of forest together. It is the latest in a series of incremental forest growth initiatives driven by environmentalists, providing an ever-larger habitat for the monkey. Until recently, the bare and dry land they were replanting belonged to a ranch owner who tore down its trees for cattle pasture. Rampant deforestation over centuries decimated this part of Brazil s Atlantic Forest, the only place in the world where the small, copper-colored monkey whose face is framed by a silken mane can be found. With fewer than 5,000 individuals, it is considered an endangered species.

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