Tapir Specialist Group Logo The IUCN/SSC-affiliated Tapir Specialist Group is a global group of biologists, zoo professionals, researchers and advocates dedicated to conserving tapirs and their habitat through strategic action-planning in countries where tapirs live, information sharing, and through educational outreach that shows the importance of the tapir to local ecosystems and to the world at large.

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Tapir Preservation Fund (TPF)
Contact: President, Sheryl Todd
P.O. Box 118, Astoria, Oregon 97103, USA
Phone & Fax: +1-503-325-3179
E-mail: tapir@tapirback.com
 
Red Danta de Colombia (Colombian Tapir Network)
Contact:  Diego J. Lizcano & Sergio Sandoval Arenas
E-mail: dl36@ukc.ac.uk and dantascol@yahoo.com.mx

Malayan Tapir Conservation Project (Malaytapir.org)
A joint project of Malayan Wildlife and National Parks and Zoo Copenhagen
Krau Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia
Contact: Carl Traeholt
E-mail: ctraeholt@pd.jaring.my

Fundación AndígenA
Contact: President, Denis Alexander Torres
Apartado Postal 210, Mérida 5101-A, Edo. Mérida, VENEZUELA
Phone: +58-414-746-0083
E-mail: fundacion_andigena@yahoo.com

Andean Tapir Fund
Contact: President, Craig C. Downer (USA)
P.O. BOX 456, Minden, NV 89423-0456, USA
Phone: +1-775-267-3484
Fax: +1-775-747-1642
E-mail: ccdowner@andeantapirfund.com

Baird's Tapir Project, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
Contact: Project Leader, Charles R. Foerster, M.Sc.
445 CR 221, Orange Grove, Texas 78372, USA
Phone: +1-361-384-2147
E-mail: CRFoerster@aol.com


Lowland Tapir Project, Pontal do Paranapanema Region, São Paulo State, Brazil
Contact: Research Coordinator, Patrícia Medici, M.Sc.
IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute for Ecological Research)
Avenida Perdizes, 285, Vila São Paulo, Teodoro Sampaio, CEP: 19280-000, São Paulo, Brazil
Phone & Fax: +55-18-3282-4690 / Mobile: +55-18-9711-6106
E-mail: epmedici@uol.com.br or medici@ipe.org.br
Additional web content: http://www.ipe.org.br


Mountain Tapir Project, Los Nevados National Park, Colombia
Contact: Research Coordinator, Diego J. Lizcano
Ph.D. Graduate Student, Kent University
A. A. 53804, Bogota 0107, DC, Colombia
Phone: +57-1-281-4256
E-mail: dl36@ukc.ac.uk
Additional web content: http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/dice/postgrad/phd_lizcano.html
 
4TAPIRS
Contact: Stefan Seitz, PH.D.
Captive Research on Tapirs: Behavior and Management
Bonndorfer Strasse 19, 68239 Mannheim, Germany
Phone & Fax: +49-621-471-428
E-mail: tapirseitz@web.de
 
DIGIMORPH
Contact: Matthew Colbert, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Phone: +1-512-471-5257
Fax: +1-512-471-94 25
E-mail: colbert@mail.utexas.edu

Tapirus-indicus.de.vu
Contact: Nadja Meyer
Biologist, Malayan Tapir research
Frankfurt, Germany
E-mail: nadja-meyer@t-online.de

EDGE of Existence - Evolutionarily Distinct & Globally Endangered
Mountain Tapir
Bairds Tapir


Arkive Online Photo Archive-"Images of life on earth"
Bairds Tapir
Lowland Tapir
Mountain Tapir

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir