Anders Goncalves da Silva: Project Update: June 2008

CallingTapirs

'I am currently in Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. My field site is in the Jaú National Park, which until recently was the largest protected area in Brazil, with just over 2.2 million hectares covering the whole of the Jaú River Basin. I arrived during the peak of the flood, so most of the area was either under water or the soil was quiet wet'.

You can read more of Ander's progress in the interim report below.

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Conservation and landscape genetics of Lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in a periodically flooded Amazonian forest, Brazil.