Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters

“They’re big, like an overweight Peruvian dog,” is how photographer Santiago Romaní describes giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis). In 2022, on his trip to the Imiría Regional Conservation Area, a protected area in the Ucayali region of Peru’s east-central Amazon, he observed the aquatic river giants. That same year, the area’s administration confirmed the presence of this species in a canal leading to Lake Chauya, a wetland that is part of the…