Asian Otters: Out of the Water and Into … a Café?

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By The RevelatorSep 1, 2019, 11:07 am238 pts
By Elizabeth L. Bennett In recent years Asia's otters have been subject to intense poaching, primarily for their pelts. Markets in East Asia greatly value their smooth, dense, water-adapted fur. At same time the poaching of live otters for sale in the pet trade has become an emerging crisis. Even in Japan's…

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