Blackpool Cork City a focus for O Otters Lutra lutra ra and probable stress fr from proposed fl flood relief scheme D. Paddy Sleeman, Simon Harrison School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, Cork Denise O’Meara, Catherine O’Reilly Molecular Laboratory, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road, Waterford
1950 attitude to Otters
Changed attitudes to Otters
Tracks and spraints
DNA studies from spraints
Summary 2011-2012
The Future ? • Re-survey of Blackpool area; winter-spring 2016, using GPS and digitial cameras, advised OPW, get local support, CCTV footage • At UCC
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