Scientists battle to save critically endangered Argentinian otter with only 250 of the species left

Scientists in Patagonia are working hard to save a critically endangered otter from extinction after its population was decimated by the leather industry and now there are only 250 of them left.

The Southern river otter was nearly hunted to extinction because of demand for the fur industry in the 1950s and despite this practice being banned years ago, its marine population is still critically endangered in its natural habitat in Patagonia, in southern Argentina, where there are only 200 individuals left in the freshwaters of the Nahuel Huapi National park and only 50 on the marine coast of Tierra del Fuego.