IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group

Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 65 - 131  (October 2009)

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UTTERLIV
Kenneth Johansson, Anna Roos

Kenneth Johannson is a well recognized Swedish nature photographer with over 40 years of experience and Anna Roos is best known to most of us as an excellent otter specialist and as the Swedish National Representative of IUCN/SSC OSG.

They have published a remarkable book about the Eurasian otter in Sweden. While the book is very easy to read for the general public, but still all major threats and many biological facts about otters and other species living in the same environment in Sweden are described in a sound scientific way. The book describes biological facts divided in chapters such as otter, mink and beaver, causes for decline, signs of otters but also some facts about other otter species outside of Europe.

Most remarkably and different from most other books are the descriptions of many encounters with otters in a lively and personal language that makes one really experiencing the setting in which the meeting with an otter occured. The lines breath the love of nature and especially ofo otters and the photos, many of them arranged as “film-strips”, sequences of several pictures showing a certain movement, are very unique.

The book is in Swedish and while this will not cause a problem to anybody speaking a Scandinavian language, the book is definitely still worth looking through for anyone even if it is just for the photos.

Hardcover: 144 pages (full color)
Publisher: Votum Förlag www.votumforlag.se
ISBN: 978-91-88238-99-3

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