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World Tapir Day 2016: Round-up

1/6/2016

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The 2016 edition of World Tapir Day has been.  Once again, we greatly appreciate to the people and organisations who made World Tapir Day so successful in 2016. Without your efforts and engagement WTD would not be able to exist, and raise awareness of tapirs and the threats that they face.

Events took place on five continents - these are a few of the many highlights from around the world:
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  • Badan Warisan Malaysia (The Heritage of Malaysia Trust) started the celebrations with an education event in Kuala Lumpur (left).
  • The Zoológico Municipal de Guarulhos in Brazil held its first event.  Every new event to celebrate World Tapir Day is wonderful, but they are especially fantastic when they occur in countries in which tapirs are found in the wild.  It's in their home ranges where tapirs need as much help as they can get, and every piece of publicity is a step forward in the campaign to raise the awareness about them.
  • The Zoologisk Have in Copenhagen held the first-ever WTD event in the country, celebrating with an entire week of events.
  • Hunter Valley Zoo in Australia celebrated the birthday of Berani, their resident Malayan tapir, as part of their inaugural WTD event.

The full list of events can be found on our "past events" page, or on our Facebook events page.
 There was also some great media coverage, including in the New Straits Times in Malaysia, the Telegraph in the United Kingdom, and on the Nine Network's website and nightly news in Australia.
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