Today’s is our last post of the year, and we want to make a balance of this year work. It had been an exciting year, our 20th year celebration in San Martin was a small gathering of people who supported this year in different years and at different levels. We also receive lots of messages from people who couldn´t make it but were excited for us. We also had the fortune to received support for one of our main goals of this year, a revision of ornate titi monkey distribution, Plecturocebus ornatus, so again thank you to Little Chalcraft Fund and Primate Conservation Inc. for supporting our activities in this project, we will have more news on the final result of this project in following months. With this project we also were able to witness the current situation of this and other endemic species in areas of their distribution limits as well as witness some of the threats that continuous increase in some areas such as deforestation.

We continue with our primate population monitoring in Villavicencio, San Martin and Villanueva towns. This is probably one of the main parts of our work that would like to get more support in the next year. It seems that 20 year is a long term however with monkeys living over several decades, we are still collecting data to see how well the population is, despite of being stable until now.

We also were able to finish a challenging and very interesting project on Brumback nocturnal monkeys, Aotus brumbacki, in collaboration with Dr. Martha L. Ortiz from Los Llanos university to establish variables at different scales influencing the presence and relative abundance of this endemic primate. A project that proved to be challenging physically and logistically. We are working in this project results publication at this moment.

We also were successful this year to present our work in different scenarios which is an important part of doing science. Hopefully our message of urgency to connect and protect forest fragments regardless of their size in private lands had been heard…probably one of the things in which we will need to work more in the new year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

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