Over the past six months, the Tapir Specialist Group has made considerable progress on developing National Action Plans for Tapir Research and Conservation. Argentina and Ecuador have recently finished and published their plans! As you all know, after holding Population and Habitat Viability Assessments (PHVAs) and developing new action plans for each species of tapir, the TSG has shifted its focus to developing National Action Plans for each tapir range country. So far, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico have finished their plans. French Guiana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Peru and Venezuela are well on their way. In Brazil, the TSG is working with the Federal Environmental Agency (ICMBio) on the revision of the Brazilian Red List – which includes lowland tapirs – and the results of this work will be used for the development of a National Action Plan for lowland tapirs in Brazil. A workshop to evaluate the status of lowland tapirs in all Brazilian biomes where the species occurs will be held in November 2010. All tapir action plans can be downloaded in all appropriate languages from the TSG website (www.tapirs.org). I would like to express our gratitude to all TSG Country Coordinators who have been working really hard on developing and publishing the National Action Plans! In addition, I would like to thank all organizations that have provided institutional and financial support for our action planning activities in each country.
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