SUAMICO - The NEW ZOO & Adventure Park was very close to capturing one of the missing river otters, but another mammal in the wild didn't get the message. On Wednesday, the zoo posted camera footage ...

Public comment is now open to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, or NRC, for proposed changes to the state’s river otter trapping rules. If adopted, the changes would take effect this November ...

Natural Resources Commission member Patrick Early (left), department Director Dan Bortner and commission Chair Bryan Poynter at a commission meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Leslie Bonilla ...

Meet Splash the Otter, a search and rescue otter who is helping first responders across Florida. Splash has the unique ...

Dear Fish and Game Department, When I was walking on a trail at Sweet Pond with my grandmother and my sibling I saw an otter just barely peeking its head over a rock. It was an incredible experience ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking public input on changes the department is considering for the state’s river otter trapping rules. The change would ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) — Although river otter trapping season in Indiana typically ends March 15, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) prematurely ended the 2023-2024 trapping season due to ...

Larry Kline stood knee-deep in a Virginia creek, laying a trap. He lowered the trap's spring-loaded metal frame -- something like a large mousetrap -- into the current. If a river otter swam through, ...

DES MOINES (AP) -- River otters are now legal game in Iowa for the first time since they disappeared from the state during the 1870s. The limited trapping season is the result of a successful and ...

An otter has died after it was trapped inside an illegally placed crayfish trap. The Cambridgeshire Police rural crime action team found the trap in the River Nene in Peterborough at the weekend. It ...

Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission has opened the final public comment periods for proposed changes to Indiana’s deer hunting and river otter trapping rules before members vote on final adoption.