Issued as part of Peru's ongoing "Fauna Silvestre" circulation series, which the Banco Central de Reserva del Perú has used since 2010 to rotate wildlife imagery through everyday coinage. The mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), native to the high Andes cloud forests, is listed as endangered by the IUCN — its inclusion here reflected coordinated pressure from Peruvian conservation agencies during the series' planning phase.
Issued as part of Peru's ongoing "Fauna Silvestre" circulation series, which the Banco Central de Reserva del Perú has used since 2010 to rotate wildlife imagery through everyday coinage. The mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), native to the high Andes cloud forests, is listed as endangered by the IUCN — its inclusion here reflected coordinated pressure from Peruvian conservation agencies during the series' planning phase.