OtterEd Anonymous · #3463 · Reply
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Educational otter materials

Hi otters, as some of you might have heard at the congress, Carol Bennetto from the Otter Specialist Group launched a fantastic little website where she hosts a bunch of educational material about otters for kids and adults. However she needs some help creating new material, as well as translating and distributing the existing stuff.
Maybe we can help out and make some material of our own? I'm sure we have quite a few otters with the necessary skills here... people need to know about otters, after all.
https://ottered.com/
Anonymous · #3464 · Reply
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Gonna post some examples
>Neotropical otter word search
Anonymous · #3465 · Reply
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>Giant otter fact sheet
Anonymous · #3466 · Reply
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>NARO dot to dot drawing
Anonymous · #3467 · Reply
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>Eurasian otter maze
Anonymous · #3522 · Reply
>>3463 (OP)
>Maybe we can help out and make some material of our own?
I looked on their website and there's a topic page for the pet trade and why it's bad, but it lacks any real information as of yet. We could write something up to send them to help educate people about why it's so bad, and hopefully reduce its impact somewhat
Anonymous · #3524 · Reply
That's a great idea! Yeah, the page is completely empty as of now apart from a link. What information do you think should be included in particular? Needs to have some solid facts of course, all about the harm it's doing to the species but also about how hard it is to keep an otter as a pet.
Anonymous · #3527 · Reply
I think the biggest thing we should talk about is the harm that the pet otter trade causes to wild otters. I've heard a lot of talk about how poachers kill adult otters for pelts and steal babies for being pets, so that's definitely something to talk about. I also know that there have been a couple of studies of otter cafes and how they're totally unable to care for their otters, so maybe we bring that up somehow?
Anonymous · #3528 · Reply
I agree, that's definitely worth mentioning. IMO it's good to keep it short and sweet and get the point across. Why don't we both think about it and write something up? Maybe we can make it into a graphic, too.
Anonymous · #3529 · Reply
Sounds like a plan, I'll write something up tonight
Anonymous · #3665 · Reply
Hey, did we ever finish something?
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