Monte Le News Today

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Tue 25 May 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 03.19 EDT “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...

Conservationists thrilled at the sighting of the wild predator, last seen in the country in the 1980s.