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tapirback.com is three things: The web site of The Tapir Preservation Fund (TPF), the online gift shop that supports TPF, and Sheryl Todd's personal web site.

When I created my web space in 1996, I bought a domain and called it "tapirback.com." The word was a pun made of two things I loved - tapirs and books ("paperback"). I put a few pictures and stories online about my experience raising tapirs, and I called that part of my site "The Tapir Gallery." Online I met tapir fans who wanted to contribute to saving these endangered animals, and I met people in the field doing the actual work of tapir conservation. In 1998 I founded The Tapir Preservation Fund to help bring these two elements together. I hadn't thought of starting a new web site for TPF, I simply expanded The Tapir Gallery as TPF's fledgling home on the web. You can read more about the history here. The main focus of the site remains TAPIRS. But tapirback, the host, is also my personal site. The links below lead to tapir blogs and groups as well as into the corridors of my own gallery. Thank you for visiting.



The Tapir Gallery

Sheryl with baby tapir, Mona, about 1972
The official web site of the Tapir Preservation Fund. Tapirs have been my passion since 1968, and perhaps before that.

Tapir and Friends Wildlife World Online Store

Tapir and Friends Wildlife Gift Shop Stuffed Animals and ToysTapir and Friends Wildlife Gift Shop Plastic Animals and ToysTapir and Friends Wildlife Gift Shop Stuffed Animals and Toys
A treasure trove of special gifts that save endangered species

Tapir and Friends Wildlife World is the primary fundraising program of the Tapir Preservation Fund, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization founded by Sheryl Todd for the conservation of the four endangered species of tapir (pictured below). These little-known "living fossils" are - surprisingly - related to the horse and the rhinoceros.
Images

Lots of pictures: photos, art, magnifent places on Earth
Photos and art: animals, industrial images, and magnificent places, inlcuding Paris, Colorado, and Oregon



The Tapir Preservation Fund (TPF) Blog

Tapir Preservation Fund (TPF) Blog
The official blog of the Tapir Preservation Fund (TPF). A nonprofit for tapir conservation.
Animal Gifts and Toys Blog

Tapir and Friends Gift Shop Blog
Our Tapir and Friends Wildlife World Online Gift Shop supports tapir conservation.
Tapir's World Store: Painted Pins, Imports and More

Our new store featuring imported crafts, carved wood animals, jewelry (pins) made and pained in the USA, ceramics from Colombia, and more.
Are you looking for unique and wonderfully realistic hand-made gifts? How about imported hand-made animals? Check us out! We're starting to grow.
"Tapirs" Google Group

Tapirs Google Group
TPF's Google Group, "Tapirs." Join the discussions and help create World Tapir Day!



Sheryl Todd's Personal Blog

Sheryl Todd's Personal Blog
I started posting April 8, 2006, with a picture I took of this nice rock fish at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Have Your Dreams Today

Have Your Dreams Today - My Market America Portal. Ask me how I lost 40 pounds and feel fantastic!
My Market America Portal. This is a teriffic place to shop online. Get credits for stuff you'd be buying anyway!
Any questions?
Web Log: Theodore
Jameson
(Ted) Todd
(1923-2003)

Theodore J. Todd
In memory of my father.
The Family Blog

The Family Blog
About us
Journey of Wandering Paths

From a collage by Sheryl Todd
A non-linear trip through art, time, and dreams



Links

Some of my favorite places on the Web
Some of my favorite places on the Web - a few of them, anyway
Off-Site
Places

Places - Paris is always wonderful - Ste Chapelle, lower level
Off-site links to a few of our special places on Earth




Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has been poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you find that money can not be eaten.

~ CREE INDIAN PROPHECY



Your purchase of
stuffed animals, plastic animals,
and other toys and gifts from
Tapir and Friends Wildlife World
helps preserve endangered species
and their rainforest habitats.


All tapirs are endangered species
Saving tapirs helps save the rainforest


Write to Sheryl: tapir@tapirback.com