By Richard Margoluis | Vice-President, ASANA
ASANA and Rafiki Safari Lodge are working hard on the tapir reintroduction project. We’ve had some good news and some bad news regarding tapirs during this reporting period. The good news is that are more and more sightings of tapir in the upper reaches of the Savegre River Watershed – a good indication that the Tapirs are, indeed, making a comeback… The bad news, however, is that we’ve heard of two tapir being killed on the Pan American Highway as they’ve attempted to cross.
Our executive director, Andrea Herrera , and a board member (and project lead) Lautjie Boshoff attended the recent Sixth International Tapir Symposium in Brazil. There, they met many experts who we hope will provide technical assistance to our project. For now, Andrea and Lautjie are putting together a business plan for the project, which will be based at the Rafiki Safari Lodge, midway down the Savegre River Watershed. With this business plan in hand, we are hoping to do some serious fundraising to fully launch our tapir conservation project.
Also to learn more about tapir in the Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor, check out two new awesome products: the new ASANA/Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor video and Jack Ewing's (ASANA president and owner of Hacienda Baru) new book: Where Tapirs and Jaguars Once Roamed: Ever-Evolving Costa Rica.
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