**Author details**

Ruth Arias-Gutierrez1 \*, Andrés Tapia<sup>2</sup> and Juan Pablo Reyes Puig3

1 Amazonian State University, Puyo, Ecuador

2 Zanja Arajuno Ecological Centre, Conservation of the Andean Tapir on the Eastern Slope of the Central Andes of Ecuador (PCTA), Puyo, Ecuador

3 PCTA-Oscar Efren Reyes Foundation, Fundación Ecominga Red de Protección de Bosques Amenazados, Baños, Ecuador

\*Address all correspondence to: rarias@uea.edu.ec

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