SPECIES SURVIVAL COMMISSION

TAPIR SPECIALIST GROUP

Tapir Conservation
The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group
Number 7, October 1997

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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• MASTHEAD
  
  
• FRONT PAGES
  
  • Front Pages, Part I
  • New avenues of information
    
  • Action Plan
    
  • Symposium
    
  • Tapir Talk highlights
    
  • Earthwatch grants, 1998-99
    
  • Letters from Chiapas
    
  • Requests
    
  • Publications
  • Front Pages, Part II
  • Tapir portraits in wood and wool
    
  • Report from Brasil, October 7, 1997: Kevin Flesher
  
  
• NEWS FROM THE FIELD
  
  • North America
  • México
  • Eduardo Naranjo's work moves to México
  • Central America
  • Guatemala
  • Belize
  • El Salvador
  • Honduras
  • A frontier model for landscape ecology
  • Nicaragua
  • Costa Rica
  • Naranjo: publications and research
  • Sonia Foerster reports on Corcovado Project
  • With the Foersters in Costa Rica
  • Panama
  • South America
  • Colombia
  • Study and conservation: T. pinchaque in Colombia
  • Joost Wilms to begin project with T. terrestris
  • Venezuela
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Guyana
  • Surinam
  • French Guiana
  • Brasil
  • Patricia Medici: Moro do Diabo State Park
  • T. terrestris study in the cerrado of Brasília National Park
  • Ecuador
  • Ruben Nuñez' mountain tapir conservation outreach
  • Craig C. Downer's 1996/97 expedition to Ecuador
  • Peru
  • Bolivia
  • Paraguay
  • Argentina
  • Uruguay
  • Asia
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Laos
  • Vietnam
  • Thailand
  • Face to face
  • Poaching incident
  • Cambodia
  • Malaysia
  • Sumatra
  • Indonesia
  
  
• NEWS FROM CAPTIVITY
  
  • News briefs
  • The last mountain tapir in Europe
  • Mountain tapir birth
  • SSP for tapirs?
  • Malayan tapirs at the Adelaide Zoo
  • Tapirs in Colombian zoos
  • Breeding plan successful at Samut Prakan Zoo, Thailand
  • Training tapirs at the Louisville Zoo
  • Baird's tapir survey
  • T. bairdii born in Japan
  • Studbooks
  • Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
  • Lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
  • Mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque)
  • Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
  
  
• THE BACK PAGE
  
  • Tapir Specialist Group member list
  • Organizations and programs

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MASTHEAD

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Editor: Sharon Matola, TSG Chair
Co-Editor: Sheryl Todd, TSG Deputy Chair

The views in Tapir Conservation do not necessarily reflect those of the IUCN nor the entire IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group (TSG). The objective of Tapir Conservation is to offer the members of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group and others concerned with the family Tapiridae, news briefs, opinions, and general information about this threatened mammalian genus. Anyone wishing to contribute to Tapir Conservation, please send materials to:

Sharon Matola
Chairperson
IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group
P.O. Box 1787
Belize City, Belize, Central America
BelizeZoo@btl.net
Phone 501-081-3004
Fax 501-081-3004

Sheryl Todd
Tapir Preservation Fund
P.O. Box 1432
Palisade, Colorado 81526 USA
tapir@tapirback.com
Phone (970) 464-0321
Fax (970) 464-0377

Produced with assistance from
Wildlife Preservation Trust International
[which later became Wildlife Trust]
1520 Locust Street, Suite 704
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 USA
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