TAPIR

Tapir is one of the most enderaged animals in the world. I that is a real pity because they live since approximately 40 million years. Nowadays four species exist in the world: three in Central America and South America and one in Asia. Tapirs are big and strong animals. They make a sharp sense of the smell, which they use to find and to choose their food and to detect possible dangers. They are solitary and shy.
Why Is the Tapir endangered? They are particularly vulnerable to the pressure of hunt. For his reproductive rate and low densities they cannot recover their population rapidly. Another threat is the fragmentation and the reduction of his natural habitat, as consequence of the development of activities such as the forest exploitation, deforestation, a forestation with not native species and exploitation of hydrocarbons and ranching. When they are done without control or suitable planning, tapirs suffer a strong degradation of the environments and their natural resources.
In 1998 one company for the conservation of the wild animals named Group Tapirus was founded . From this date, a group of ten volunteers work to assure the protection of the wild animals of the environment of the plantation. Their principal aims are: •To observe and to learn more things over of the animals of the local environment, to protect the flora and the fauna of the plantation and of the surrounding areas and to promote the environmental education of the local population.
To sum up, we hope that Group Tapirus and more others organizations help the Tapirs survive.