Articles
High Andean Weaver of Harmony Shows Us The Way
The Mountain Tapir, Endangered “KEYSTONE” Species Of The High Andes
Building Of The Guamote-Macas Road, Ecuador
In Search of the Mountain Tapir
Peruvian Conservationists Suffers Assassination Attempt
Mining Peru’s Andean Forests Puts Unique Species, Ecosystem At Risk
For more articles on Tapirs, please click here.
For further information and photographs etc. about the endangered Mountain Tapir and its Andean habitat as well as conservation efforts by Ecologist Craig C. Downer and, for some publications, by other co-authors, all peer reviewed, please click here. You can select Craig’s name from the list of articles and/or google search for the Mountain, or Andean Tapir, or Tapir Andino in Spanish, Bergtapir in German, Tapir de Andes in French.
Please read this fascinating and revealing article with clips & photos about the endangered Mountain, or Andean, Tapir. It is based on several years of intensive investigations of the habits and survival requirements of this beleaguered species that is so important to the life of the Andean cloud forests and paramos in the northern Andes of South America. Andean Tapir Fund’s president Craig C. Downer had a major hand in the initial creation of the Tabaconas-Namballe nature reserve of northern Peru where this study took place; and his published works and advice helped guide this study. It is wonderful that the true nature and vital contributions of this ancient, seldom-seen species are finally coming to the light of public attention! Long may the Mountain Tapir live and may he/she go on to be restored throughout his/her evolutionary stomping grounds. They are true gardeners of the mid to high northern Andes that deserve to be restored but it’s going to take all of us to make this difference!
https://es.mongabay.com/2020/04/dia-internacional-tapir-amenazas-estudio/
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Film: “The Mustang Man, Craig C Downer, Exonerating Wild Horses and Burros, Fighting to Keep them Free” as introduced by Horsetalk-NZ and published on Dec. 9, 2019 (NZ time)
Other Resources
IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group at www.tapirs.org and for tapir conservation projects at www.tapirs.org/conservation
Mountain Tapir Conservation at www.mountaintapir.org
World Tapir Conservation at www.worldtapirconservation.org
Click below to see a film that is in Spanish that is about saving the Andean forests and paramos in Peru. https://www.facebook.com/joseluis.juarezcastillo/videos/10208033092543298
Left hand & index finger points to a tiny green plant just germinating from mountain tapir dung. High in Sangay N.P.