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The General Directorate of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity provides the hatchery trout Cenajo dam to help feed the captive-bred
The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, said today that "the population of otters in the region had improved in the last ten years", during his visit to Terra Natura facilities for the latest otters born in captivity whose fate is to enhance wildlife populations that inhabit our rivers.
The otter (Lutra lutra) is an endangered species, although in the last decade has come to occupy unusual habitats as the river of Argos or Lorquí Vega.
The current population is between 25 and 30 specimens, ranging from 0.05 to 0.2 individuals per kilometer busy channel, depending on food resources, the counselor at densities considered as "similar to other populations Mediterranean basin. "
The species is distributed throughout the river Segura since its entry into the region by the municipality of Lorquí.
Also by the river Alhárabe, from Risca prey to its mouth in Segura, and the Argos and Quípar tributaries.
"Today," said Cerda-known distribution has its highest occupying more than 200 miles of rivers, where in 1997 only 130 kilometers occupied. "
Recovery Project
Terra Natura Foundation works with the Department in the draft recovery and reintroduction of endangered species in their natural habitat.
The General Directorate of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity provides the live trout farm Cenajo reservoir to help feed the captive-bred, that in this way can improve the nutrition and survival techniques.
In recent months, two otters were born at the facilities of Terra Natura in Murcia, where it has recreated the natural habitat of this species.
The future of these individuals, who have been baptized and Gollo Zaran homage to this land, will, if necessary, its reintroduction in the riverbeds of the Community to enhance wild populations.
Source: CARM
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