#animalspotlight #12 The lowland tapir / tapirs this shy, snout-nosed mammal has been walking our planet for over 30 million years. Today, all four tapir species are endangered or vulnerable, and their biggest threat isn’t just habitat loss…it’s isolation. Tapirs are naturally solitary, but human impacts have pushed their loneliness to heartbreaking extremes. As forests are cut into fragments for farms, roads, and development, tapirs become trapped in tiny pockets of habitat. Some go their entir

LET'S LEARN MORE ABOUT MALAYAN TAPIR!! The Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) is the largest of the five species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. In the past, Malayan tapirs could be found throughout tropical lowland rain forests of Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia,Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. However, their population decreased over the years to the state whereby Tapirs are currently classified by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as an endangered species. Let