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Tapir Projects Around the World
More and more research is being conducted on tapirs, including many
projects by Tapir Specialist Group field researchers.
LOWLAND TAPIR
ARGENTINA
The Influence of Large Herbivores on Neotropical Forests: El Rey National Park, Salta,
Argentina
Silvia C. Chalukian
E-mail: tapirnoa@yahoo.com.ar; schalukian@yahoo.com.ar
Implementation of the Action Plan for the Conservation of Tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
in Argentina: Assessing the Conservation Status and Population Monitoring in the Northwest
Soledad de Bustos & Silvia C. Chalukian
E-mail: tapirnoa@yahoo.com.ar; soledaddebustos@yahoo.com.ar
www.proyectotapir.com.ar
BRAZIL
Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: Pantanal Tapir Program, Brazil
Patrícia Medici
E-mail: epmedici@uol.com.br
www.tapirconservation.org.br; www.ipe.org.br
Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative on Facebook
Influence of Large Herbivores on the Atlantic Forest of Morro do Diabo State Park, São
Paulo State, Brazil
Patrícia Medici
E-mail: epmedici@uol.com.br
www.tapirconservation.org.br; www.ipe.org.br
Conservation of Tapirus terrestris Populations in the State of
Espírito Santo, Brazil
Andressa Gatti, Danielle de Oliveira Moreira, Luana Centoducatte & João Luiz Rossi
Junior
E-mail: gatti.andressa@gmail.com
Home Range, Habitat Use, Movement Patterns and Diet of Tapirs (Tapirus terrestris)
in the Brazilian Cerrado
Edsel Amorim Moraes Junior
E-mail: edsel@biotropicos.org.br; edsel.bhz@terra.com.br
The Biogeography of Tapirus terrestris in the Atlantic Forest Biome, Brazil
Kevin Flesher
E-mail: kevinmflesher@yahoo.com.br
Linking Landscape to Molecules: Genetic as a Tool in the Study of Lowland Tapir Populations
in Brazil
Alexandra Sanches, Cristiane Garcia Pellizon, Carolina da Silva Carvalho, Tamissa Gabrielle
Godoi, Paola Mandetta Tokumoto & Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
E-mail: lelesanches@gmail.com; mgaletti@rc.unesp.br
Biodiversity Dynamics and Land-Use Changes in the Amazon: Multi-Scale Interactions between
Ecological Systems and Resource-Use Decisions by Indigenous Peoples
José M. V. Fragoso
E-mail: fragoso@stanford.edu
COLOMBIA
Participative Camera Trapping at La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (La Guajira), Macizo Colombiano
(Huila), Parque Amacayacu (Amazonas) and Serranía del Darien (Chocó), Colombia
Jaime Andrés Cabrera
E-mail: jac56@kent.ac.uk; jcabrera@nativa.org
www.nativa.org
ECUADOR
Tayja-Saruta Project: Conservation of Tapirus terrestris in
Ecuador
Ute Magiera
E-mail: magiera@zoo-osnabrueck.de
FRENCH GUIANA
Ecology and Population Dynamics of the Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in French
Guiana
Cécile Richard-Hansen, Mathias Tobler & Fabrice Hibert
E-mail: cecile.richard-hansen@ecofog.gf;
matobler@gmx.net
Lowland Tapir Conservation in French Guiana
Benoit de Thoisy & Cécile Richard-Hansen
E-mail: cecile.richard-hansen@ecofog.gf
BAIRD’S TAPIR
COSTA RICA
Demystifying the Cloud Forest: The Baird's Tapir Project of the Northern Talamanca Mountains
Alec Hutchinson
E-mail: alhutchi@gmail.com
GUATEMALA
Baird’s Tapir Habitat Changes in Guatemala and the Mayan Forest
Manolo García, Fernando Castillo & Raquel Leonardo
E-mail: Garcia.manolo@usac.edu.gt; manelgato@gmail.com
Baird’s Tapir: The Guardian of the Mayan Forest
Manolo García, Marcial García, Gaudencio Vitzil & Luis Rodas
E-mail: Garcia.manolo@usac.edu.gt; manelgato@gmail.com
Long-Term Baird’s Tapir Monitoring at Aguadas: The Hearth of the Mayan Forest
Manolo García
E-mail: Garcia.manolo@usac.edu.gt; manelgato@gmail.com
HONDURAS
Fragmentation and Migration in Baird’s Tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
Niall McCann
E-mail: niallmccann@hotmail.com
MEXICO
Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Endangered Fauna Highly Dependent of Water Resources
in the South of the Yucatan Peninsula
Sophie Calmé, Georgina O’Farrill, Rafael Reyna, Anton Selmon & Nuria Torrescano
E-mail: sophie.calme@gmail.com
Consequences of the Anthropogenic Loss of Herbivorous Mammals for the Rain Forest Plant
Diversity and Regeneration
Rodolfo Dirzo & Eduardo Mendoza Ramírez
E-mail: rdirzo@stanford.edu
Population Size and Habitat Use of the Endangered Species Tapirus bairdii in the
Biosphere Reserve El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico
Eduardo Mendoza Ramírez, Miguel Martinez-Ramos & Juan Paulo Carbajal Borges
E-mail: mendoza.mere@gmail.com; jcarbajal@cieco.unam.mx
http://tapirmexico.blogspot.com
NICARAGUA
Baird’s Tapir Project, Nicaragua
Christopher A. Jordan
E-mail: jordan41@msu.edu
MALAY TAPIR
INDONESIA
Monitoring Malay Tapir Population in Fragmented Lowland Forest in a West Sumatran Landscape
Wilson
Novarino
E-mail: wilson_n_id@yahoo.com
MALAYSIA
The Malayan Tapir Conservation Project
Carl Traeholt & Bengt Holst
E-mail: ctraeholt@pd.jaring.my
www.malaytapir.org
MYANMAR
A Preliminary Study of Habitat Selection, Abundance, and Threats for Malay Tapirs in the
Tenasserim Hills, Southern Myanmar
Antony Lynam & Than Myint
E-mail: tlynam@wcs.org; wcsmm@mptmail.net.mm
MOUNTAIN TAPIR
COLOMBIA
Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Tapirs in the Central Andes of Colombia
Diego J. Lizcano
E-mail: dj.lizcano@gmail.com
www.mountaintapir.org
ECUADOR
Conservation Status of the Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) in the Eastern Slopes
of the Central Andes in Ecuador (PCTA)
Andrés Tapia
E-mail: sachacristo@gmail.com
www.zanjarajuno.org
Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) Conservation Program in the Influence Areas
at Cayambe-Coca National Park and Antisana
Ecological Reserve, Ecuador
Mauricio Ortega-Andrade, Armando Castellanos, Patricio Meza, Fabiola Carvajal, Víctor López,
Andrés Montalvo & Verónica Díaz
E-mail: especiesenpeligro@ecociencia.org; biomauro@hotmail.com
www.ecociencia.org
Monitoring and Analysis of the Viability of the Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque)
Populations in Three Sites in the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve, Eastern Ecuadorian Andes
Carlos Armando Urgilés Verdugo
E-mail: car.urgiles@gmail.com
PERU
Creation of Cerro Negro Mountain Tapir Nature Sanctuary, Peru
Craig C. Downer
E-mail: ccdowner@yahoo.com
www.andeantapirfund.com
THEMATIC PROJECTS
Reproductive Biology of the Tapir
Budhan Pukazhenthi, Janine Brown, Luis Padilla & Oris Sanjur
E-mail: pukazhenthiB@si.edu
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