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Tapir Conservation
The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group
Number 7, October 1997
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Tapir Specialist Group
1997-1999 Triennium
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Rick Barongi General Mgr/Animal Operations Disney's Animal Kingdom P.O. Box 10,000 Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-1000 Phone (407) 939-2452 Fax (407) 939-6386 rbarongi@aol.com Daniel M. Brooks Ecotropix IUCN Tapir Action Plan Coordinator/Co-Editor 1537 Marshall, Suite #1 Houston, TX 77006 USA Ecotropix@aol.com Lorena Calvo 2924 University Meadows Dr. #535 St. Louis, MO 63121 USA s996968@umslvma.umsl.edu Silvia Chalukian Assistant Professor Panamerican Agriculture School (ZAMORANO) P.O. Box 93 Tegucigalpa, Honduras silvia@ns.zamorano.edu.hn Craig C. Downer Andean Tapir Fund P.O. Box 456 Minden, NV 89423 USA John Eisenberg, PhD Katharine Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation Florida Museum of Natural History P.O. Box 117800 Gainesville, FL 32611-7800 USA Karl Kranz Vice President/Animal Mgt. Philadelphia Zoological Gardens 3400 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Ignacio March Mifsut Senior Researcher El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Apartado Postal #63 29 290 San Cristobal de las Casas Chiapas, México imarch@master.sclc.ecosur.mx |
Leonel Marineros Biologist c/o Proyecto Rescate Cultural Ecologico IHAH-PNUD Col. el Sauce 3a Calle 1A Etapa No. 302 Apartado Postal #651 La Ceiba, Atlantida, Honduras Phone 43 2139 Sharon Matola Chair IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center P.O. Box 1787 Belize City, Belize Central America Phone 501-081-3004 Fax 501-081-3004 BelizeZoo@btl.net Edward Ramsay, DVM Assistant Professor University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dept. of Comparative Medicine P.O. Box 1071 Knoxville, TN 37919-1071 USA ERamsay@UTK.edu Oliver Ryder, PhD Geneticist Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES) Zoological Society of San Diego P.O. Box 551 San Diego, CA 92112-0551 USA oryder@ucsd.edu Sheryl Todd Deputy Chair IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Tapir Preservation Fund P.O. Box 1432 Palisade, CO 81526 USA Phone (970) 464-0321 Fax (970) 464-0377 tapir@tapirback.com Nico Van Strien, PhD Julianaweg 2 3g41 DM Doorn Netherlands strien@indo.net.id |
We encourage members to supply additional contact information such as e-mail address, fax and phone numbers if available.
Organizations and Programs
AZA Tapir Taxon Advisory Group (TAG)
Rick Barongi, TAG Chair
Disney's Animal Kingdom
P.O. Box 10,000
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-1000
Phone (407) 939-2452
Fax (407) 939-6386
rbarongi@aol.com
EEP Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) for Hippos and Tapirs
Sian S. Waters, Chair, has left to return to Vietnam; no successor has been named as of publication date.
IUCN/SCC Tapir Specialist Group
Sharon Matola, Chair
Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center
P.O. Box 1787
Belize City, Belize
Central America
Phone (970) 464-0321
Fax (970) 464-0377
BelizeZoo@btl.net
Sociedade de Zoologicos do Brasil
Adauto Luis Veloso Nunes
President/Conservation Coordinator
Rua Theodoro Kaisel
883 CEP 18021-020 Sorocaba-SP
Sao Paulo, Brazil
sorozool@fpsp.fapesp.br
Publishes annual census which includes tapirs.
Tapir Europaisches Erhaltungszucht Programme (EEP)
Dr Peter Mühling
Tiergarten Nürnberg
Am Tiergarten 30, D-8500
Nürnberg 30, Germany
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