The IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group would like to thank Leila Gass of the Marine World Foundation for help in typing this manuscript and Heidi Snyman of the Natal Parks Board for preparing the maps for Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The preparation of this report received financial assistance from the International Fur Trade Federation, which is gratefully acknowledged.
The Otter Specialist Group would also like to thank the contributors listed below who provided information on otters in their country or region.
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G.A. Agbahungba (Benin)
I. Aggundey (Kenya)
M.F. Ahmad (Pakistan)
S. Allen (North Dakota, United States)
F. Andelt (Nebraska, United States)
B. Anderson (Tennessee, United States)
J.L. Anderson (Togo)
R. Andrews (Iowa, United States)
W.F.H. Ansell (Zambia)
R. Archibald (British Columbia, Canada)
M. Arguillas-Caleda (Philippines)
B. Baker (South Carolina, United States)
E.H.M. Balde (Guinea)
D. Ban-Ymary (Chad)
I. Baran (Turkey)
J. Baranga (Uganda)
A. Batalov (Soviet Union)
B. Bates (Utah, United States)
T. Beck (Colorado, United States)
P. R. Beja (Portugal)
I. Benoit (Chile)
I. Benoit-Contesse (Chile)
M.A. Bereteh (Sierra Leone)
B. Berg (Minnesota, United States)
R.C. Biggs (Botswana)
F. Bisbal (Venezuela)
C. Blacher (Brazil)
D. Blatt (Washington, United States)
P. Bluzma (Soviet Union)
C. Boesch (Ivory Coast)
E. Boggess (Minnesota, United States)
K. Boonkird (Thailand)
V.R. Booth (Zimbabwe)
J. Brady (Florida, United States)
M. Brown (New York, United States)
G. Bukamoto (Nevada, United States)
J. Caldecott (Nigeria)
Z. Campos (Brazil)
J. Cardoza (Massachusettes, United States) R.D. Carr (South Africa)
D. Cartwright (New Brunswick, Canada)
D. Case (Ohio, United States)
F. Cassola (Italy)
J.C. Castilla (Chile)
I. Castro (Chile)
C. Chehébar (Argentina)
S. Chandran (Singapore)
T. Clark (Texas, United States)
M. Coe (Liberia)
C.G. Coetzee (Namibia)
E. Colares (Brazil)
D.M. Commins (South Africa)
Corporacion Nacional Forestal y de Proteccion de Recursos Naturales Renovables (Chile)
J. Cromer (West Virginia, United States)
J. Cravino (Uruguay)
J. Crawford-Cabral (Angola)
D. Criel (Belgium)
J. Culverwell (Swaziland)
K. Curry-Lindahl (Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Uganda, Zaire)
K.K. Dadnadji (Chad)
DAFFS (Mexico)
P. Danilov (Soviet Union)
M. Delibes (Spain)
R. Dibblee (Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Direccion General de Forestaly Fauna (Peru)
A. Dogde-Tomi (Togo)
C. Dominique (Gabon)
G. Doungoube (Central African Republic)
G. Dubost (Gabon)
A.R. Dupuy (Senegal)
M. Dyer (Nigeria)
U. Dynushenko (Soviet Union)
D.H. Eccles (Malawi)
E. Edroma (Uganda)
T. Edwards (Kentucky, United States)
Y. E. Egorov (Soviet Union)
M. Eisentraut (Cameroon)
A. El-Gharbi (Tunisia)
K. Elowe (Maine, United States)
L.H. Emmons (Gabon)
Z. Endi (China)
R. Eriksen (New Jersey, United States)
J. Estes (United States)
F. Feer (Gabon)
N. Ferreira (South Africa)
M. Feeroz (Bangladesh)
J. Fernandez (Uruguay)
F. Ferrand-Almeida (Portugal)
O. Forsey (Newfoundland, Canada)
T.D. Foster (Malawi)
P. Foster-Turley (Malaysia, Thailand)
L. Fox (Kansas, United States)
V. Frank (Kenya, Rwanda)
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L. Frederickson (South Dakota, United States)
Friends of the Otter (Japan)
Fundacion para la Defensa de la Naturaleza (Venezuela)
M. Gaethlich (Greece)
J. Gallo-Reynoso (Mexico)
J.S. Gartlan (Cameroon)
G. Gould (California, United States)
A.A. Green (Benin, Burkina Faso)
M. Griffin (Namibia)
J.J.R. Grimsdell (Tanzania)
C.G. Guerra-Correa (Chile)
D. Hamilton (Missouri, United States)
D.C.D. Happold (Nigeria)
J. Harcus (Ontario, Canada)
H. Harju (Wyoming, United States)
H. Hash (Montana, United States)
J. Hassinger (Pennsylvania, United States)
G.D. Hayes (Malawi)
C. Hays Shahin (Jordan)
T. M. Heggberget (Norway)
G. Heidemann (West Germany)
S. Helin (China)
A. Heringa (Burkina Faso and Mali)
J.C. Hillman (Ethiopia)
T. Hon (Georgia, United States)
M. Hönigsfeld (Yugoslavia)
M. Islam (Bangladesh)
P. Jayne (Maryland, United States)
B. Jedrzejewska (Poland)
R.C. V. Jeffery (Zambia)
J. Jimenez (Spain)
C. Johnson (Manitoba, Canada)
N. Johnson (Idaho, United States)
S.A. Johnson (Indiana, United States)
A. de Jongh (Netherlands)
B. Kanchanasaka (Thailand)
N. Karimou (Burkina Faso)
M. Kasparek (Turkey)
I. Kemenes (Hungary)
A. Khan (Bangladesh)
J. Kiili (Soviet Union)
S.H. Kim (Korea)
J. Kingdon (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
K. Kirchberger (Austria)
L. Klosterman (Chile, Peru)
D. Kovacic (Yugoslavia)
E. Kraus (Austria)
G. Kruse (Illinios, United States)
R. Lafond (Quebec, Canada)
L. Lafontaine (France)
H.F. Lamprey (Kenya, Tanzania)
M.L. Lapisky (Rhode Island, United States)
D. Larsen (Alaska, United States)
A. Lejeune-Frank (Rwanda)
Le Vu Khoi (Vietnam)
B. Limoges (Guinea-Bissau)
C. Linet (Belgium)
G. Linscombe (Louisiana, United States)
J.W. Lipe Jr. (Mississippi, United States)
P.H. Lloyd (South Africa)
C. Logsdon (Kentucky, United States)
C.D. Lynch (South Africa)
M.A. Macdonald (Ghana)
A. Mackanga-Missandzou (Gabon)
A. Mackay (Kenya)
A.B. Madsen (Denmark)
G. Makosso Vheiye (Congo)
P. Marshall (Ivory Coast)
D. Martin (Virginia, United States)
M. Masariche (Argentina)
J. Mayers (Liberia)
D. Mcknight (Alaska, United States)
G. Medina (Venezuela)
G. Medina-Vogel (Chile)
D.S. Melville (Hong Kong)
H.F. Mertens (Zaire)
S. Midence (Honduras)
L. Mileva (Bulgaria)
Ministerio de Ganaderia (Uruguay)
Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Resursos Naturales Renovables (Venezuala)
Ministry of Agriculture (Guyana)
R. Miranda (Guinea-Bissau)
F.X. Mkanda (Malawi)
J. Morales M. (Nicaragua)
F.E.C. Munyenyembe (Zambia)
K. Nebie (Burkina Faso)
K.T. Ngwamotsoko (Botswana)
B. M. Nor (Malaysia)
C.E. Norris (Kenya)
E. Novakova (Czechoslovakia)
D. N'Sosso (Congo)
M. Olsson (Sweden)
E. Orff (New Hampshire, United States)
E. Ortiz (Peru)
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B. Osman (Malaysia)
R. Ostfeld (Chile, Peru)
L. O'Sullivan (Ireland)
G.M. Padilla (Venezuala)
A. Parera (Argentina)
J. Phelps (Arizona, United States)
K. Pilgrim (Guyana)
C. Pils (Wisconsin, United States)
P. Polechla (Arkansas, United States)
K. Poole (Northwest Territories, Canada)
C. Prigioni (Italy)
E. Pulliainen (Finland)
W. Ramono (Indonesia)
M.K. Ranjitsinh (India)
I.L. Rautenbach (South Africa)
P. Rego (Connecticut, United States)
T.E. Reilly (Swaziland)
C. Reuther (West Germany)
A. Reza Khan (Bangladesh)
K. Robin (Switzerland)
R. Rosoux (France)
D.T. Rowe-Rowe (South Africa)
W. Runge (Saskatchewan, Canada)
B. Sabean (Nova Scotia, Canada)
M.Y.A. Salam (Sudan)
B.O. Sall (Senegal)
F. Sandegren (Sweden)
C. Santiapillai (Indonesia)
M. Santos-Reis (Portugal)
H. Sasaki (Japan)
J. Schweizer (Brazil)
O. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (Soviet Union)
T. Serfass (Pennsylvania, United States)
A.G. Seymour (Malawi)
B. Shalmon (Israel)
S. Shannon (California, United States)
S. Shariff (Malaysia)
T. Shrestha (Nepal)
V. Sidorovich (Soviet Union)
W. Sielfeld (Chile)
J. da Silva, Jr. (Brazil)
P. de Silva (Sri Lanka)
M.P. Simbotwe (Botswana)
U. Skarén (Finland)
J. Skeen (Oklahoma, United States)
B. Slough (Yukon Territory, Canada)
K. de Smet (Algeria)
V. Solis Riviera (Central America)
R.N. Soto (Peru)
C.A. Spinage (Botswana, Central African Republic)
G. Spiridonov (Bulgaria)
J.J. di Stefano (Vermont, United States)
G.B. Stenson (British Columbia, Canada)
C.T. Stuart (South Africa)
M. Stubbe (East Germany)
J. Stuht (Michigan, United States)
P. Sumner (North Carolina, United States)
L. Suprock (Rhode Island, United States)
I. Taylor (Yugoslavia)
A.J. Tedder (Lesotho)
J. Tello (Mozambique)
J. Thiebes (Oregon, United States)
M. Thompson (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire)
A. Todd (Alberta, Canada)
J.C. Torres-Mura (Chile)
A. Trindade (Portugal)
G. Tsukamoto (United States)
B. Tullar (New York, United States)
C.E.G. Tutin (Gabon)
A. Tye (Sierra Leone)
C. Vaughan (Costa Rica)
G.M. Vegel (Chile)
J. Ventooilla (Panama)
I. Verdier (Uruguay)
V. Vnukov (Soviet Union)
F. Vnukova (Soviet Union)
Vene Vongphet (Laos)
E. Warr (Tennessee, United States)
D. White (Alabama, United States)
T. Whittendale, Jr. (Delaware, United States)
S. Williams (new Mexico, United States)
N.G. Willoughby (Malawi)
J.G.M. Wilson (Malawi)
V.J. Wilson (Zimbabwe)
J. Yanez (Chile)
R. Zolho (Mozambique)
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