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  • The giant river otter in El Tuparro National Park, Colombia

  • Thomas R. Defler
  • Journal:
    Oryx / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / April 1986
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    24 April 2009, pp. 87-88
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    April 1986
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  • Giant river otters were once widespread in the rivers and creeks of the greater Amazon Basin. Hunting for their skins caused many local extinctions and only small scattered populations now remain, although total numbers are unknown. It is seriously endangered in Colombia, and one of the places where it still occurs in any numbers, El Tuparro National Park, is becoming increasingly accessible to people, while the otter populations in adjacent rivers outside the park are even more vulnerable to poaching.

  • A remote park in Colombia

  • Thomas R. Defler
  • Journal:
    Oryx / Volume 17 / Issue 1 / January 1983
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    24 April 2009, pp. 15-17
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    January 1983
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  • In the half million hectares of the remote El Tuparro National Park, on the Venezuelan frontier, the abundant wildlife includes the Orinoco crocodile and a good population of the endangered giant otter. Hitherto access to the park has been poor, and the only people are a few settlers and Indians hunting with bows and arrows, but new roads are bringing in both new settlers and vehicle drivers with guns.