The isolated tapirs of the Atlantic Forest face an uncertain future

Mongabay
Mar 9, 2022, 11:36 am286 pts
In Brazil, calling someone a tapir is usually an insult. But there’s plenty of reason it should be seen as a compliment. Few animals are as essential, underestimated and persecuted as Tapirus terrestris, South America’s largest native land mammal and one of the planet’s most efficient promoters of…

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