Travel Bug Dog Tag OTTERS RETURN

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Released:
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Origin:
South East England, United Kingdom
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Current Goal

To travel as far as possible to meet other otters and make people aware of this  beautiful animal.

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      OTTERS RETURN         For more information visit   Surrey Wildlife Trust
An exciting recent discovery of otter droppings (or ‘spraint’), made at two sites along the River Wey in Guildford, is proof that the rare and endangered mammal is at last returning to the area after 16 years. The discovery was made by SWT Wetland Landscapes Officer, Jim Jones, who went to investigate the area following a lead from the National Trust about a member of the public who claimed to have seen an otter there.
In the 1970s otters were on the brink of extinction, but they are slowly recovering in Britain thanks to the ban on pesticides, legal protection and the significant improvement of water quality and related fish stocks. However, otters are still very rare in the South-East and particularly in Surrey; at present we only have a few of the animals exploring our rivers and it’s thought there are not enough to meet and breed to form a stable population. Recent evidence of otters on the upper reaches of the Wey near Farnham and Godalming was recorded in the Fifth Otter Survey of England in 2009-10, but the last time otters were detected as far up as Guildford was as long ago as 1996.
 

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    Mark Missing 3/9/2015 aakolme marked it as missing   Visit Log

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    Dropped Off 11/23/2014 andyyh placed it in Tampereen tenniskeskus Finland - 98.61 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/15/2014 andyyh retrieved it from Syysloimujen tuhkat Finland   Visit Log

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    Discovered It 11/15/2014 viivihh_ discovered it   Visit Log

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    Dropped Off 11/10/2014 LQ placed it in Syysloimujen tuhkat Finland - 130.03 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 11/10/2014 LQ took it to Kallion kirkko Finland - 1.07 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/23/2014 LQ retrieved it from Helsinki City Museum Finland   Visit Log

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    Discovered It 10/22/2014 felix catus discovered it   Visit Log

    There it is among other trackables :)
    Discovered It 10/22/2014 geogubbe discovered it   Visit Log

    Still alive and kickin´at Helsinki City Museum Cache.
    Dropped Off 10/19/2014 ansu1969 placed it in Helsinki City Museum Finland   Visit Log

    Jätetty kätköön Helsinki City Museum
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