Notes on the Conservation Status and Distribution of the Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Paramillo National Natural Park

Abstract

By problems of order public many places in protected areas of Colombia are not visited regularly and are little the knowledge about of the status of the populations of wild life. This note shows some aspects of the ecology, distribution and ethno-biology of the Danta (Tapirus terrestris) in the natural national park (NNP) Paramillo, where the specie was declared object conservation
within the management plan of the Paramillo park. The information comes from primary sources (fieldwork) and secondary from participatory diagnostic made whit the different communities inside of the protected area and with the help of hunters and locals experts. To make the analysis of the distribution of the specie in the NNP Paramillo was discovered than the areas associated to the
wetlands of the rivers Manso, Tigre y Sinú specially the swamps El Barrial, La Rosita, Monomacho, El Carmen y La Trampa should be considered of high importance to the conservation of the specie, for the continuous reports in this places. The problems principals of conservation for de Tapir in the NNP Paramillo are the loss of habitat y the pressure by hunting.