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...NORTHERN MURIQUI HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION about 300 --The largest remaining group, consisting of more than 100 animals, has been protected for 50 years by Feliciano Miguel Abdala, a private landowner...
...BLACK LION TAMARIN HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION 900 or more --Thought to have become extinct because it hadn't been seen for decades, it was rediscovered in 1970 in the forests of Morro do Diabo State Park...
...BLACK-FACED LION TAMARIN HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION about 400 --Scientists were amazed that this tamarin, discovered only in 1990, could remain undetected so long in a highly developed part of Brazil...
...BUFF-HEADED CAPUCHIN HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION fewer than 5,000 --Hunters shoot the adults for meat and capture the younger animals to sell as pets...
...past couple of years, high-speed powerboats have begun making the run, smuggling human cargo in a matter of hours for thousands of dollars a head. (Some poor Cubans, who can't afford the steep price, pay their way with exotic birds captured in the forest and sold to the U.S. black market.) But most fleeing Cubans make the trip the old-fashioned way: in rickety craft with weak motors. A good trip takes 10 hours. A nightmare takes days. And for uncounted Cubans swept into the Atlantic during a storm, the journey is eternal. At least 60, including Elian...