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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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Specialist Group Action Plan & PHVA Reports
2007 Tapir Conservation and Action Plan
What are Action Plans? Each of the 120 IUCN Specialist Groups is required to prepare and publish a species Action Plan for their respective species. These plans identify the actions necessary for the survival of species. Action plans are designed to promote conservation action financially, technically, or logistically, influencing key players in the local, national, regional, and global levels. They provide a common framework for a range of players from decision-makers at the governmental level, to those who will implement the conservation actions on the ground. Scientists, resource managers, agency officials, funding organizations, universities, zoos, and political leaders utilize them when deciding how to allocate available resources. Action plans are also “snapshots in time”, providing a baseline set of data and information against which to measure change and monitor progress, indicating where changes of emphasis or direction may be needed to conserve the species. Further, they identify gaps in species research and policy and give direction for future endeavors on what data and knowledge are needed most. How was the Tapir Action Plan developed? During the First International Tapir Symposium held in Costa Rica, in November 2001, participants agreed that the revision and updating of the first version of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (edited by Daniel Brooks, Richard Bodmer and Sharon Matola in 1997) should be one of the priority goals for the TSG. An Action Planning Committee was formed and decided that Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) methodology, within the framework of the IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, would be appropriate for listing and prioritizing actions for the conservation of the four tapir species and their habitats. These priority lists make up the new Action Plan. And here they are! Who helped make this Action Plan? The
first step towards achieving this goal was the Malayan
Tapir PHVA Workshop, held in Malaysia, in August 2003. The
workshop included 30 participants from the Malayan tapir range
countries in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia and
Thailand. The second meeting, Mountain
Tapir PHVA Workshop, was held in
Colombia, in October 2004. A total of 63 representatives from
the mountain tapir range countries (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru)
attended the workshop. The third workshop, Baird’s
Tapir PHVA Workshop, was held in Belize, in August 2005.
A total of 55 participants from the Baird’s tapir range
countries (Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, and Panama) attended the meeting.
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