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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Videos
Large Mammals Conservation Program: Terra da Gente, 2024 - Management technique allows harmony between rural producers and tapirs in the interior of São Paulo
Large Mammals Conservation Program: Terra da Gente, 2024 - In an unprecedented initiative, biologists create a strategy to save tapirs in rural areas
Large Mammals Conservation Program: Terra da Gente, 2021 - Project promotes observation of tapirs in the Atlantic Forest
This library was compiled in collaboration with the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group (TSG).