Barbara Brown's titi a few individuals were found being kept as pets. The species is not found in any officially protected area. Despite being home to numerous species found nowhere else in the world, only one percent of the forests of Bahia, home to the blond titi monkey, are under any form of protection and as a number of destructive activities continue to degrade the area, action is required to protect the blond titi monkey’s habitat. Several organizations, including the Brazilian Institute for the Environment, are working to promote the study and protection of Brazil’s threatened primates.2) Conservation International is also helping to
Collared titi is found west of the Río Purús to the Yavarí River. The collared titi is seen most frequently in well-developed, tall forest with a closed canopy, usually over terra firme, but not exclusively so. The species also enters extensive várzea forest, especially if the forest is tall and well-developed. Such várzea forest contrasts with the habitat needs of the coppery titi, which also uses várzea forest and more commonly so. But the coppery titi survives in low, vine-covered, "poor" forest where the collared titi is rarely found. It is also known from some gallery forest, north of the Vichada River,