Otters: the return of the natives

The Independent - London | May 18, 1996| | Copyright

I looked out of the kitchen window one morning and saw a large animal eating one of my fish. I thought it was an otter, but although I've lived in Wales all my life, I've never seen one and wanted to be sure."

Farmer Emyr Breeze says he was more surprised by the animal's audacity than anything, but one of his neighbours suffered far worse. "Otters raided our pond that was full of koi carp which we were growing for sale," she explains.

In both cases, the farmers called in Geoff Lyles, who runs Otters in Wales - a conservation project funded by Welsh Water, the National Rivers Authority and the ...

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