As bulldozers roar and chainsaws whine, the silence left behind grows heavier, threatening not just the tapir, but the entire rainforest symphony. The Unmistakable Icon of Asia’s Forests The ...

Visiting a tropical rainforest promises to be a memorable ... educational and fascinating even if you don’t see a jaguar or tapir. That said, there is a good chance that you will see some ...

However, less than 1 percent of tropical rainforest species have been analyzed for their medicinal value. Humans and animals rely on the rainforest to make the majority of Earth's oxygen.

Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil’s lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ... leads the Lowland Tapir Conservation ...

When Chris and Martin go in search of an obscure rainforest creature to add to their Life Lists, the Wild Kratts becomes embroiled in the complex relationships of a tropical rainforest.

Her passion for wildlife blossomed into a career: Medici, a conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, is the world’s leading expert on the lowland tapir, a large, elusive South ...

Roosevelt sent the specimen to the United States for analysis, but it was considered just a variation of T. terrestris, [the Brazilian tapir]. Weighing in at about 240 pounds, the Kabomani tapir is a ...

A tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...