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The British Otter is known as the Eurasian Otter – so named because they are found from the west coast of Ireland to Japan. Like other species of otter world – wide, our native otter has seen its numbers decline for a variety of reasons over past decades. Loss of habitat, pollution, recreational disturbance, tourism and hunting have all contributed to the decline. During the late 1950’s following the introduction of new and more powerful agricultural pesticides our native otter population went into rapid decline.
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