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"Otters on Mt.
Kailash". Aniruddha Mookerjee, The Hindu (India),
26
January 2003.
This animal has never been a priority species. So, is the
otter doomed? IUCN/SSC Otter
Specialist Group (Asian Section) Workshop on the
Conservation and Public Awareness of Otters India Indonesia Japan Korea Singapore Otters
in Singapore mangrove, Reintroduction
of Singapore Fauna into the forest
reserves Taiwan Thailand Otter-ly
Charming, The Nation (Thailand), 23rd November
1997. A
symbol of wetlands, otters are cute, friendly, playful and
intelligent. So why don't they receive more attention in
Asia? JAMES FAHN reports. Vietnam "U
Minh Thuong's otters face survival
fight", "Wanted:
some rat cunning" by Tran Dinh Thanh
Lam SPECIES-BASED
LINKS The Small-clawed
Otter, Amblonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815) The Hairy-nosed
Otter, Lutra sumatrana (Gray, 1865) Rare
animal species found in Kieân
Giang, Hairy-nosed
Otter Fund Asia Australasia North America New
exhibit at Underwater World Langkawi, Malaysia - Small
clawed Otters IUCN/SSC
Otter Specialist Group Workshop on the
Conservation and Public Awareness of Otters VIIIth International
Otter Colloquim - Chile, South America, 20th to 25th January
2001 Workshop
on 'How to implement the Otter Action
Plan?' Launch
of the 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened
Species, Otter
Net - "An
Otter Family Album", compiled and photographed by J. Scott
Shannon. International
Otter Survival Fund Amblonyx
Otter Site The
Otter Trust,
UK Operation
Otter - Devon
Wildlife Trust, UK Cornwall
Otter Trust,
Cornwall Wildlife Trust, UK Eurasian
Otters in Anglesey,
North Wales, U.K Aktion
Fischotterschultz,
Germany The
Peruvian Giant Otter Research and Conservation
Project Giant
Otter Conservation Project
- travel page supporting conservation groups. The
New York River Otter Project Nebraska
State Wildlife - Otters Missouri
Department of Conservation Otter pages Indiana
Division of Fish & Wildlife: River Otter Reintroduction
Programme Alaska
Dept. of Fish & Game - River Otter River
Otter Photos
of of the River Otter, Tim
Daniels, Wildlife
Rehabilitation Center and Otter Habitat, York Haven,
Pennsylvania, USA. River
Otter Games
by Twin Groves Virtual Wetlands Preserve team River
otter printout
from Enchanted Learning - for kids to colour. Tracking
River Otters
by Bob Arnebeck Okee
the Otter's WWWaterweb
by Jerry A. Gadden Rabbit
and Otter, the bungling
host, The
Gift of the Bear
- contains a reference to the otter in North American
folklore. What's
Wrong with the California Sea Otter? By James A.
Estes Current
sea otter research projects
at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Sea
Otter Research and Conservation Program
(SORAC), Centre For Biological
Diversity - Sea
Otter Upwelling
on the web: Sea Otters by Clay Phillips Sea
Otter Campaign
with a link to a sea otter list-server Inside
the Otter nursery (at
Seaworld), Ask
Shamu: Sea Otters
(has distribution map) Sea
Otter Quiz Game Coal
Creek Wildlife: River Otter
page, by kids
from 1998 Coal Creek Elementary School. More
Links... Marine
Mammals (Otterforschung) From the
media "Otter
drowns dog in Pasco County lake, attacks would-be
rescuer", (in
Florida). Associate Press, 5th May, 2001. Unusual
otter attack kills dog,
another report, from St. Petersburg Times, Tampa
Bay "Sea
otter 'serial killer' gets
life", 26 Apr
2001, iafrica.com "Balance
sought in sea otter
conflict",
Workshop on "Otters as the Ambassasdors of Wetlands",
New Delhi, 3rd & 4th March 2002.
Photos
from the Workshop
"Serious business for playful otters", The Pioneer, New
Delhi, 7th
March 2003
held at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Taichung,
Taiwan, December 9-10, 1999.
Report
in the International Conservation Newsletter Issue 7-4, The
Society for Wildlife & Nature,
Taiwan.
Report
by Jan Reed Smith for the River Otter Alliance at Otternet
COUNTRY-BASED LINKS
Mustelids,
Viverrids and Herpestids of India: Species Profile and
Conservation Status
by S. A. Hussain, WIldlife Institute of India.
Indonesian
Otter Network
maintained by Irwansyah Reza Lubis
Hiroshi
Sasaki's webpage
(in Japanese)
Korean
Otter webpage
(in Korean), appears to be based mainly on:
Sungyong Han. 1997. The Ecological studies of Eurasian
otter(Lutra lutra) in South Korea.
Dept. of Biol., Kyungnam Univ., Ph.D. Thesis,
112pp.
Second
Smooth otter cub born in Singapore
mangroves, N.
Sivasothi, 20th May 2000.
Smooth-coated otter in Singapore - eyewitness account and
photos, Nick
Baker, Ecology Asia, August 2000.
Smooth-coated otters at Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve,
6th
July 2003.
Otters in Sungei Buloh Nature Park, Singapore,
The
Straits Times photo special
N. Sivasothi, 1999. A short account from a mangrove
guidebook.
by Francis Lim, date unknown, possibly 1998 or later.
A short report about the re-introduction of the Small-clawed
otter in Sungei Buloh Nature Park.
Eurasian
Otter discovered in Kinmen
News report, 3rd December 1999.
Article
in Pattaya Mail
Otter
conservation tops the agenda for U Minh
Thuong
Vietnamese News Agency, Friday, 1st March 2002
Vietnam News Agency, Monday, 25 March 2002
Vietnamese News Agency, Monday, 18 March 2002
Amblonyx
cinereus
(Asian Clawless Otter, Asian Small-Clawed Otter),
by Nitzan Soffer, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School
student
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan: Museum of
Zoology,
Capturing
the elusive Hairy-nosed
Otter,
Burhanuddin Hj. Md. Nor, September 2000.
Vietnam News, 17th December 2000.
International Otter Survival Fund
Lucky
Otter by
Kawauso Club (Japanese)
Appears to be based on otters in zoos and aquaria in Japan;
includes a list of locations.
Studbook
data for Amblonyx cinereus, current to 12 Jan
2000
Studbook
Keeper: Heather Guy, Adelaide Zoo
Carnivore Taxon Advisory Group, Australasian Species
Management Program (ASMP)
Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and
Aquaria (ARAZPA)
American Zoo and Aquarium Association's (AZA) Species
Survival Plan (SSP)
Asian
Small Clawed Otter Fact Sheet, 1998
Underwater World What's new, 23rd February, 2000
held at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Taichung,
Taiwan, December 9-10, 1999.
Report
in the International Conservation Newsletter Issue 7-4, The
Society for Wildlife & Nature,
Taiwan.
Report
by Jan Reed Smith for the River Otter Alliance at Otternet
Official
webpage
Interim
page -
updated, 18th January 2001
Workshop by the German Aktion Fischotterschutz e.V. and the
IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group,
4 - 7 November 2000, OTTER-ZENTRUM Hankensbüttel,
Germany
28th September 2000
Very nicely presented site, with a page of links to zoos
with otters (and webpages).
Paradise
Park Wildlife Sanctuary
- the cornish otter sanctuary.
With links to a monthly diary on the work of their Otter
Project and otter news from North Wales.
Ecology and Conservation of Illinois' Fur Resources: Species
Accounts,
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, January
2002.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
a Native American Legend.
Midwest SOARRING WINGS, Summer 1998,
The Newsletter of Midwest Save Our Ancestors Remains &
Resources Indigenous Network Group
USGS Sound Waves, February 2002
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Discovery Online
Surfing the net with kids, by Barbara J.
Feldman
Rabid otter bites fisherman, 25th April 2002.
News
Channel 200.com
Environmental News Network, 24 March 1999; with links to
related news.
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