|
The story of IPE - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute for Ecological Research) begins in 1978, when Claudio Padua abruptly left a successful administrative career in Rio de Janeiro to dedicate himself to conservation research. He became involved with the black lion tamarin, a species that had then been "rediscovered" after being thought extinct for nearly 100 years. Claudio began to study biology and never looked back. In the late 1980s, he moved with his wife, Suzana, and their three children to the Pontal do Paranapanema in western Sao Paulo State, so that he could more effectively continue his studies and efforts to save the black lion tamarin.
|
