Welcome to the official World Tapir Day website
This site contains everything that you need to know about World Tapir Day, which occurs on 27 April every year. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore tapir fan or whether you have only just discovered the world of tapirs, you will find a wide range of information on this site about World Tapir Day.
If you are new to the World Tapir Day community, you may wish to read some of the FAQs on this site to learn about the wider goals of World Tapir Day - they extend far beyond raising awareness of the four extant tapir species in Central and South America and in South East Asia.
The World Tapir Day site isn't just an information resource - it also aims to develop a community around tapir awareness and conservation. Please sign up to the Facebook group and follow World Tapir Day on Twitter and be part of the effort to save tapirs.
There is also the official World Tapir Day store, which has been created to raise funds to help support tapir conservation projects worldwide. All profits made through the shop go towards tapir conservation projects.
WORLD TAPIR DAY EVENTS
The best place to find out what is happening around the world to mark World Tapir Day is the Facebook group.
The Facebook events page lists the events that are being formally organised across the globe to celebrate WTD.
WORLD TAPIR DAY POSTER
To commemorate World Tapir Day, Elise Smorczewski of Strange and Endangered has produced a poster for World Tapir Day.
Strange and Endangered is Elise Smorczewski's senior thesis project at the Maine College of Art. It is aimed at reaching out to people and educating them about animals that are little known today.
The poster is available for downloading and printing from the link below.
TRUNDLE FOR TAPIRS!
2011 World Tapir Day sees the return of the world's only odd-toed ungulate fun run/walk/ride/skate/knitting trundle.
Trundle for Tapirs lets tapir fans from around the world get involved in tapir conservation through fundraising. By signing up to participate, people commit to walking or running a distance during the week in which World Tapir Day falls. Participants then seek sponsorship from their family, friends, work colleagues, or anybody else they invite to sponsor them. People can sponsor people a fixed amount or can offer an incentive by sponsoring an amount per kilometre.
COMING SOON: WORLD TAPIR DAY 2011
It is four weeks until 2011 World Tapir Day. As the day approaches, the best way to keep up with the latest news about it is to subscribe to the World Tapir Day on Facebook and Twitter.
