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    Asian Otters: Out of the Water and Into … a Café?

    Asian Otters: Out of the Water and Into … a Café?

    By Elizabeth L. Bennett In recent years Asia’s otters have been subject to intense poaching, primarily for their pelts. Markets in East Asia greatly value their smooth, dense, water-adapted fur. At same time the poaching of live otters for sale in the pet trade has become an emerging crisis. Even in Japan’s famous cat cafés, […]