New records of Oedipomidas leucopus (Primates: Callitrichidae) in peri-urban areas of the municipality of Copacabana (Antioquia)

Abstract

The presence of Oedipomidas leucopus is documented in two areas of Copacabana, Antioquia (Colombia), each with different conservation conditions. The first record involved two individuals detected by camera traps in La Loma de los Duque (Machado neighborhood), a peri-urban area with significant landscape transformation and the presence of community feeding sites used by local wildlife. The second record comes from Sabaneta village, a mountainous rural area with fragments of Andean forest, where three individuals were recorded in trees during community surveys resulting from a local awareness-raising process about wildlife conservation. Both findings highlight the importance of community-based monitoring and confirm the species’ persistence in human-modified landscapes, emphasizing the urgent need to implement local conservation strategies in response to habitat loss and wildlife trafficking.