Tapir Specialist Group Logo The IUCN/SSC-affiliated Tapir Specialist Group is a global group of biologists, zoo professionals, researchers and advocates dedicated to conserving tapirs and their habitat through strategic action-planning in countries where tapirs live, information sharing, and through educational outreach that shows the importance of the tapir to local ecosystems and to the world at large.

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  Tapir Specialist Group Document Downloads


Download our beautiful TSG Educational Brochure (684K)
All downloads are for educational use only. Please contact us with any questions about document usage.

TSG Membership Docs
TSG Membership Directory (PDF 60K)
TSG Committee Structure Directory (PDF 32K)


TSG Action Plans & PHVA Reports

>TSG Action Plans Main Page

Brazilian/Lowland Tapir
2007 Brazilian Tapir PHVA Report (in Portuguese, PDF, 2.7Mb)

Bairds Tapir
2005 Bairds Tapir PHVA Report (en Español
, PDF 2.6 Mb)
2005 Bairds Tapir PHVA Report (en English, PDF 2.6 Mb)

Mountain Tapir
2004 Mountain Tapir PHVA Report (en Español, PDF 5 Mb)
2004 Mountain Tapir PHVA Report (in English, PDF 1.9 Mb)

Malayan Tapir
2003 Malayan Tapir Action Plan/PHVA Report (PDF 472K)

First TSG Tapir Action Plan
1998 Tapir Action Plan zip file (568K)

TSG Tapir Symposium Reports
>Tapir Symposiums page
2006 Symposium
2006 3rd International Tapir Symposium Report
(PDF 500 Kb)
TSG Plans for Action 2006-2007 (100Kb)

2004 Symposium
2004 2nd International Tapir Symposium Report (PDF 1.4Mb)
TSG Plans for Action 2004-2005 (100Kb)

Tapir Conservation Newsletter
> All TSG Tapir Conservation Newsletters
PDF downloads( 1-2Mb)
June 2007 Tapir Conservation
December 2006 Tapir Conservation



Endorsement/Funding Sources
AZA Funding Opportunities(Word 92K)
TSG Project Endorsement Requirements (Word 32K)

Other TSG Publications
TSG Tapir Conservation Newsletter
TSG Educational Brochure (684K)
TSG Promotional Brochure-WEB(PDF 2.8MB)
TSG Promotional Brochure-PRINT(PDF 8MB)

TSG Marketing & Branding Materials
Marketing docs
TSG Presskit text English(32K Doc)
TSG Presskit text Spanish(32K Doc)
TSG Educational Brochure (684K)
TSG Promotional Brochure-WEB(PDF 2.8MB)
TSG Promotional Brochure-PRINT(PDF 8MB)
TSG Letter of Introduction/Form letter
(Word 550k)

Branding docs
TSG Logo specifications (PDF)
TSG logo zip file (tif, transparent gif & eps)
TSG transparent gif (20K)
TSG tiff (1.5Mb)
TSG eps file (Illustrator 9, 14 Mb)
TSG letterhead (.dot file; add the file to your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates directory and load it with File>Project Gallery>My Templates)




TSG Project Endorsement
>Tapir Projects page
TSG Endorsed Projects (300K PDF)

TSG Project Endosement Guidelines (16K PDF)
Spanish (16K PDF)
Portuguese (16K PDF)

TSG Veterinary & Zoo Committee Documents
>TSG Zoo Committee page
>TSG Veterinary Committee page

New:
TSG Tapir Field Veterinary Manual

English (300K PDF)
Spanish (300K PDF)
Portuguese
(300K PDF)

ISIS Tapir Normals
Physiological Data Reference Values for Tapir Species (330K PDF)

Management
Plan Maestro de Coleccion Regional Pra El Tapir Centroamericano (184K PDF)
(Master plan for managing Bairds Tapirs in Central American zoos)


Managing Semi-wild Captive Animals
Centro Fatima Guia Para Manejo del Tapir (Spanish, 5.4MB PDF)


TAG Husbandry standards
English (Word 264K)
Portuguese (Word 188K)
French (Word 108K)
German (196K)


TAG Minimum Husbandry Guide
English (Word 60K)
Bahasa/Malaysia (Word 100K)
Indonesian (88K)
Spanish (Word 60K)

Environmental Enrichment Techniques
English (54K)
Indonesian (60K PDF)
Bahasa/Malaysia (64K PDF)
Portuguese (54K PDF)
Spanish (54K PDF)
French (54K PDF)

Tapir Holding Zoos & Institutions
Worldwide list of tapir-holding zoos (Word)

TSG Genetics Committee
TSG International Genetics Project Sample Techniques document
English (20K PDF)
Spanish (20K PDF)

Portuguese (20K PDF)
TSG International Genetics Project Sample Type Table document
English (40K PDF)
Portuguese (40K PDF)


Educational Documents
For kids
TSG Educational Brochure --English(684K)
TSG Educational Brochure --Spanish(684K)
TSG Educational Brochure --Bahasa(684K)
TSG Educational Brochure --Portuguese(1.3Mb)

Para los Niños (en Español):
Un pequeño ante aventurero comicbook--(3Mb)
La mudaza de Tomas el oso
comicbook-- (3Mb)
Courtesy of Fundacion Andigena, Venezuela:
Conozcamos al las dantas..(panfleto, 388K)
Uno, dos, tres, quatro tapires (panfleto, 584K)
Descubre a la danta ("connect the dots" 192K)

IUCN Publications
2004 Red List (Word 172K)

CBSG Vortex Modeling Documents
Simulation Modeling Population Viability Analysis (doc)
VORTEX parameters for tapirs (xls)
VORTEX dataform (doc)

Baseline VPJs
Lowland Tapir PHVA (vpj)
Mountain Tapir PHVA (vpj)
Baird's Tapir PHVA (vpj)
Malayan Tapir PHVA (vpj)



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