Iberianature » Spanish otters http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog A guide to Spain: environment, geography, nature, landscape, climate, culture, history, rural tourism and travel Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:57:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Otters no longer threatened http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2009/06/otters-no-longer-threatened/ http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2009/06/otters-no-longer-threatened/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:40:28 +0000 nick http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/?p=844 The otter is no longer threatened in Spain and Portugal and now occupies almost the entire Iberian Peninsula, with populations only still under threat in Guipúzcoa, Almería and Alicante. As elsewhere in Europe, otter populations hit their nadir in the 1980s, but increased protection for wetlands and the animal itself, the banning of poisons such as DDT and the clean-up of rivers have allowed the nutria as it is known in Spanish to recover. The otter has for instance returned to the provinces of Barcelona, Gerona, Huesca, Navarra, La Rioja, Cantabria, Palencia, Segovia and Valladolid. ADN

See also lots of sightings of Spanish otters on the forum

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