'A huge surprise' as giant river otter feared extinct in Argentina pops up

Conservationists thrilled at the sighting of the wild predator, last seen in the country in the 1980s"It was a huge surprise," said Sebastián Di Martino, director of conservation at Fundación Rewilding Argentina. "I was incredulous. An incredible feeling of so much happiness. I didn't know if I should try to follow it or rush back to our station to tell the others."The cause of the excitement was the sighting, last week, of a wild giant river otter - an animal feared extinct in the country due to habitat loss and hunting - on the Bermejo River in Impenetrable national park, in north-east Argentina's Chaco province. The last sighting of a giant otter in the wild in Argentina was in the 1980s. On the Bermejo, none have been seen for more than a century. Continue reading...