Conflicts involving wild animals and forest plantations are registered all over the world, including the barkstripping
of native and exotic tree species by primates. In Southern Brazil, the Brown-capuchin monkey
(
Sapajus nigritus) is well-known for damaging commercial plantations of
Pinus
spp. and
Araucaria
angustifolia
. In this paper, however, we report, for the first time in the literature the bark-stripping of
Eucalyptus
spp. by these monkeys. Considering the growing areas of eucalypt plantations in Brazil and
neighboring countries, the information presented here is of great importance to the economy of Forestry.
It also enhances the need of scientific studies aimed to minimize the damage for the production without
jeopardizing wildlife conservation, as those designed to monitor the availability of food resources (mainly
fruits) in native forest remnants and to improve it through the restoration of degraded forests or even those
that seek for natural deterrents.
