Farmer-Tapir Coexistence

Our project on farmer-tapir coexistence consists in collaborating and working hand-by-hand with farmers that suffer from economic losses due to tapirs raiding their crops.

We are currently deploying electric fencing as a measure to repel tapirs from feeding from crops including beans, cucumber, casava, among a great variety of plantations.

We have deployed this strategy in five farms at Tenorio-Miravalles Biological Corridor and in one farm at the Western Talamanca Highlands.

See below for a video sample of a tapir being repelled by an electric fence.

However, we need more funding to support more farmers to coexist with tapirs!