Click to see pictures of the Giant River Otter
Giant River Otters were hunted for their fur until 1973, this resulted in a dramatic decrease in the species population. Currently settlers and fishermen are continuing to shoot otters because they do not understand the law and consider otters as their competition. Gold mining requires mercury to separate the ore from the mud, which causes mercury poisoning in all aquatic life, like the fish that otters eat for nutrients. Tourism brings humans close to the animals dens resulting in stress on the mothers causing them to stop producing milk for their young. Now the Giant River Otter is the rarest otter in the world, with only 2000 to 5000 otters left in the wild.
Signing this petition will not require anything of you besides a click of a button to raise awareness of the plight of the Giant River Otter. It would be greatly appreciated if you can pass this message on to others so that we can save them from the extinction we will have caused.
