What is it about?
This report covers a training workshop for otter field techniques, conservation, threats and education/public awareness work, held in Zhuhai, China, in September 2016
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Why is it important?
This is the first training workshop on otters in China and it brought together 33 people working in wetlands in China and Nepal. Techniques were discussed and a Chinese Otter Network was formed to develop work in China. Otters are a huge part of the illegal fur trade - for every tiger skin found there are at least 10 otter skins and one haul in Tibet had 778 otter skins. China is an important country in this trade and it is vital to have trained people working with communities and carrying out research in order to reduce it.
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I work for the International Otter Survival and we have been holding a series of workshops in Asia in order to train people to develop otter conservation in their own country. We have held workshops in Cambodia (2009), Indonesia (2013), Bangladesh (2014) and reports can be found at http://www.otter.org/Public/IOSFInternationalWorkshops.aspx. At the end of each workshop a national otter network is formed which are all linked through the Asian Otter Conservation Network. In 2015 we held a workshop in Tanzania, the first ever workshop in Africa, and this brought together people from 10 sub-Saharan countries. Conservation work is being developed and countries are linked through the African Otter Network. For more information see www.otter.org
Mrs Grace Marianne Yoxon
International Otter Survival Fund
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This page is a summary of: Otters and wetlands training workshop in China, Oryx, December 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605316001460.
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