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Every summer, as fireworks stands pop up along Okeechobee Boulevard and the boom of aerial detonations begins drifting across rural Loxahatchee, our animal care team goes into a different kind of readiness mode. Extra overnight shifts. Extended monitoring rounds. Staff on standby to respond if an animal bolts, panics, or injures itself. This isn't a precaution we take lightly. It's one we take because experience, and science, tells us we have to. This year, the stakes are higher than usual....

Wear the Mission Conservation doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in the field, in the lab, in the holding facility at 2 a.m. when a newborn tamarin needs attention. It also happens quietly, consistently, when someone walks into a coffee shop wearing a shirt that makes a stranger ask, "What's a mountain bongo?" That's the idea behind the RSCF shop. Every item we sell through our Shop features the animals at the center of our work: the mountain bongo, one of Africa's most endangered...

At first glance, a pygmy marmoset looks like something a child might dream up: a tiny, tufted primate small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, with enormous eyes, a lion-like mane, and the acrobatic agility of an animal three times its size. But behind the charm is a conservation story that matters, and one that RSCF has been writing since 1985. Juvenile pygmy marmoset at RSCF Meet Cebuella pygmaea The pygmy marmoset is the world's smallest monkey, weighing in at just 3–5 ounces as an...