Tamar Otter Sanctuary
1 October 2003
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Two British otters at the Tamar
Otter Sanctuary, just north of Launceston.
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The Sanctuary is part of The
Otter Trust, working to conserve particularly British otters, through
breeding and reintroduction of otters to the wild.
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Once faced with being wiped out in lowland England, largely as a result of the
work of the Otter Trust, together with improved water quality, the otter
population is now increasingly healthy.
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Two young otters due to be released soon.
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As well as the British otters above, the Sanctuary has some Asian short-clawed
otters.
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This Asian short-claw is rather overweight, but efforts to put him on a diet are
proving difficult without depriving his mate of food
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The Sanctuary also has a range of wildfowl
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South-West holiday, September/October 2003
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