The heartwarming tale of how this film-maker and naturalist restored the otter to English rivers.
So much gloom is written about conservation statistics that we tend to forget the success stories. The heartwarming tale of how Philip Wayre, a film-maker and naturalist, restored the otter to English rivers is one such example. By the late 1970s, the only healthy British otter populations were in Scotland and odd spots in the South-West, due to the pollution of English…