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Tapirs:
Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan
Published 1997
Brooks, Daniel M.; Bodmer, Richard E.; Matola, Sharon (compilers). 1997. Tapirs - Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. (English, Spanish, Portuguese.) IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. viii + 164 pp.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- John F. Eisenberg
- Tapirs as Seed Dispersers and Predators
- Fábio Olmos
- Status and Action Plan of the Mountain Tapir
(Tapirus pinchaque)
- Craig C. Downer
- Abstract
- Natural History
- Status and Threats
- Habitat destruction and hunting
- Natural predators and diseases
- Status of legal protection
- Destruction of Andean habitat
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- The crisis of mountain tapir survival
- Action Plan
- Status and Action Plan of the Malayan Tapir
(Tapirus indicus)
- Mohd Khan bin Momin Khan
- Status and Action Plan of the Baird's Tapir
(Tapirus bairdii)
- Sharon Matola, Alfredo D. Cuarón, and Heidi Rubio-Torgler
- Status and Action Plan of the Lowland Tapir
(Tapirus terrestris)
- Richard E. Bodmer and Daniel M. Brooks
- Abstract
- Natural History
- Status and Threats
- Importance of lowland tapir to local people
- Susceptibility to overhunting in western Amazon
- Hunting as a threat in other regions
- Non-food use of tapir in Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru
- Tapirs and palms
- Tapirs and reserves
- Action Plan
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Appendix I - Tapir Action Plan Projects Seeking Support
- Appendix II - Tapir Action Plan Authors and Specialist Group Members
- Appendix III - IUCN Red List Categories
Many thanks to Andrew Mercer of New Zealand for HTML coding several long sections of this Action Plan.
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