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Tapir Conservation
The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group
Volume 9, Number 1, June 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Masthead

News Briefs

From the Chair
Conference to include tapir workshop
TSG web site
Action Plan
Injured tapir keeper recovering
TPF activities
Funding sources: Lincoln Park Zoo
Poster of Baird's tapir and young
Omnivorous tendencies?
Next issue: Project Location Map

FROM THE FIELD: Central America

México
    Eduardo Naranjo in Chiapas
Guatemala
    Report of high-elevation tracks
Belize
    The Chalillo Scheme
    Proposal developed
    Tapir attacks canoe
Costa Rica
    Charles and Sonia Foerster report: March 1999
    Mathias Tobler studies Baird's tapir in montane cloud forest
Panama

FROM THE FIELD: South America

Colombia
    Footprint investigation delayed
Brasil
    Tapirs studied in forest fragments
Ecuador
    Craig C. Downer reports
    Nuñez continues education programs
Peru
    Tapirus pinchaque to be studied

FROM THE FIELD: Southeast Asia

Thailand
    Camera-trapping reveals the status of Malayan tapirs in southern Thailand rainforest remnants
Indonesia
    Photo-trapping in Sumatra

FROM CAPTIVITY

Panama: A history of tapirs in captivity (1990-1999)
Orphaned tapir
The tapirs of La Marina
Studbook news
TAG news

Tapir Specialist Group Member List



MASTHEAD

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

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CONTACTS
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Deputy Chair: Sheryl Todd
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