OTTER SURVEYS

Otters can live on a variety of watercourses including rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs, estuaries, coasts, streams, ponds, bogs and marshes, and occur in both rural and urban areas, including major cities. Otters are fully protected against killing, capture, injury and disturbance, and any places they use for shelter or protection. Their holts of dens are protected against damage, destruction or obstruction under The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (as amended) and The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended).