Tarka Revisited: 100 Years of Rivers and Wildlife

Otter? Otter? OTTER! That elusive shadow, that fleeting glimpse, that sleek and slender form disappearing beneath the surface of the water. It is one hundred years since Henry Williamson wrote Tarka the Otter, the book that first brought these captivating animals into the public consciousness. A lot has changed for us over the last century, but is much different in the secretive life of the Otter?

Otters and the rivers in which they live have certainly been on a long journey, a perilous one ...