Tapir
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Key Papers
Borges, A.B.T. & Silva E.H. 2002. Biology of a lowland tapir population and it's potential as a community involvement agent in the Serra do Tabuleiro Stae Parl, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Vol. 11/No. 2. Download
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Castellanos, A. & Gomez, L. 2015. Reintroduced Andean tapir attacks a person in the Antisana Ecological Reserve, Ecuador. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Vol. 22/No. 33. Download
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Castellano, A.X. 2019. The threat of road-kill to Andean tapirs: the case of ‘Jorgito’, the Andean tapir that lived beside the Quito-Amazon highway, Ecuador. Boletín Técnico 14, Serie Zoológica 14-15:1-5. Download
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de Souza, J.C., da Cunha, V.P. & Markwith, S.H. 2015. Spatiotemporal variation in human-wildlife conflicts along highway BR-262 in the Brazilian Pantanal. Wetlands Ecol Manage 23:227–239. External resources
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de Thoisy, B. & Vogel, I. 2002. French Guiana Status of Lowland Tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in French Guiana: A Preliminary Assessment. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Vol. 11/No. 2. Download
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Estrada, N. 2006. Humans Attacked by a Baird’s Tapir (Tapirus bairdii) in the Sierra de Agalta National Park, Olancho, Honduras. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Vol. 15/No. 20. Download
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Ferraz, et al. 2022. Best of both worlds: Combining ecological and social research to inform conservation decisions in a Neotropical biodiversity hotspot. Journal for Nature Conservation, 66. External resources
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Gómez-Hoyos, D., Seisdedos-de-Vergara, R., Castañeda, F., Schipper, J., Amit, R. & González-Maya, J. 2020. Short-term measures to avoid retaliatory killing of a tapir (Tapirus bairdii) during a case of human conflict at La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, Costa Rica. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología (Nueva Epoca). External resources
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Guzman, B.K., Cotrina-Sánchez, A., Guzmán, C.T., Oliva, M., Tarifeño, C.M.O., Cerna, M.Y.H. & Sandoval, J.D.R. 2023. Predicting potential distribution and identifying priority areas for conservation of the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in Peruvian Amazon. Journal for Nature Conservation, 73:126397. External resources
Haddad, V., Assunção, M.C., de Mello, R.C. & Duarte, M.R. 2005. A fatal attack caused by a lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in southeastern Brazil. Wilderness Environ Med. 2005 Summer; 16(2):97-100. External resources
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Huerta-Rodríguez, J., Poot-Sarmiento, I., Duarte-Morales, A., Martínez-Martínez, V. & Reyna-Hurtado, R. 2024. Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii) avoid human settlements and roads while searching for water in community-owned forests from the Calakmul region. Therya; 15. Download
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Kasmuri, N., Nazar, N. & Yazid, A.Z.M. 2020.Human and Animals Conflicts: A case study of wildlife roadkill in Malaysia. Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal; 5(13). External resources
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Kuswanda, W., Hutapea, F.J., Setyawati, T. & Purwoko, A. 2024. Local community characteristics and potential conflicts around Asian tapir habitat in Batang Gadis National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Oryx; 58(4):448-450. External resources​
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Nogueira, A.L.G., Alves, C., Loisa Fabrícia Prates Alvarez, L.F.P., Cera, M.B., de Mendonça Guimarães, M.A., Rabelo, M.A., Beltrão, M.G., Pereira, M.S., Hatakeyama, R. & de Barros Ferraz, K.M.P.M. 2025. Human-wildlife conflicts in Brazil: Navigating through shared and spared landscapes. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation; 23(4). External resource
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Paolino, R.M., Testa-José, C., Fernandes-Santos, R.C., Landis, M.B., de Pinho & G.M. Medici, E.P. 2024. Poaching and hunting, conflicts, and health: human dimensions of wildlife conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado. Front. Conserv. Sci., 4. External resources​
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Pérez-Flores, J., Mardero, S., López-Cen, A. & Contreras-Moreno, F.M. 2021. Human-wildlife conflicts and drought in the greater Calakmul Region, Mexico: implications for tapir conservation. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 16(4): 539-563. External resources
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​Serrano-Mac-Gregor, I., Reyna-Hurtado, R., Molina-Rosales, D. & Naranjo-Piñera, E. 2021. Baird’s tapir: predicting patterns of crop damage surrounding the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Campeche, Mexico. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad, 92, e923520. External resources
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Vélez, J., McShea, W., Budhan Pukazhenthi, B., Stevenson, P. & Fieberg, J. 2023. Implications of the scale of detection for inferring co-occurrence patterns from paired camera traps and acoustic recorders. Conservation Biology 38:e14218. External resources
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Vélez, J., McShea, W., Pukazhenthi, B., Rodríguez, J.D., Suárez, M.F., Torres, J.M., Barrera, C. & Fieberg, J. 2022. Cattle exclusion increases encounters of wild herbivores in Neotropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61(10). External resources
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Waters, S. 2015. Crop-raiding Baird’s Tapir Provoke Diverse Reactions from Subsistence Farmers in Belize. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Vol. 24/No. 33. Download
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Zanuari, A.H., Othman, K., Mohamed, M.S., Magintan, D., Hambali, K., Mansor, M.S., and Abidin, K.Z. 2024. Comparing landscape characteristics to understand Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) conflicts: A case study in Negeri Sembilan. Malayan Nature Journal, 76(1), 1-10. External resources
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Zuber, S.N., Abidin, K.Z., Mohamed, M.S., Pikri, F.I. & Trans, D.M. 2024. Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Malayan-Tapir Conflict (Tapirus indicus) In Peninsular Malaysia from 2013 to 2019. Journal of Wildlife and Parks, 39:57-73. External resources
Books & chapters
Landis, M.B. 2023. Avaliação e estratégias para a conservação da anta (Tapirus terrestris) em áreas protegidas da Serra do Mar, Mata Atlântica. Tese apresentada para obtenção do título de Doutora em Ciências. Área de concentração: Ecologia Aplicada. Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). Download
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Pastor-Parajeles, S. & Landis, M.B. 2024. Human–Tapir Coexistence: How to Manage Human–Tapir Conicts in Less Developed Countries. In: Melletti, M., Reyna-Hurtado, R., Medici, P.(eds) Tapirs of the World. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. Download
Pastor-Parajeles, S. 2022. Conectividad del hábitat según la aceptabilidad de las y los propietarios de propiedades privadas hacia el desplazamiento de la danta, Tapirus bairdii (Tapiridae), en el Corredor Biológico Tenorio-Miravalles. Proyecto Final de Graduación presentado bajo la modalidad de Tesis para optar al Grado de Licenciatura en Biología con Énfasis en Manejo de Recursos Naturales. Universidad Nacional Costa Rica. Download
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Serrano Mac-Gregor, I. 2017. Daños a los cultivos ocasionados por el Tapir Centroamericano (Tapirus bairdii) y otra fauna silvestre en el municipio de Calakmul, Campeche, México. Masters Thesis, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Mexico). External resources​
Links
IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group
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Videos
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Large Mammals Conservation Program: Terra da Gente, 2024 - Management technique allows harmony between rural producers and tapirs in the interior of São Paulo
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Large Mammals Conservation Program: Terra da Gente, 2024 - In an unprecedented initiative, biologists create a strategy to save tapirs in rural areas
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Large Mammals Conservation Program: Terra da Gente, 2021 - Project promotes observation of tapirs in the Atlantic Forest




