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Scientists have found new evidence of an ‘extremely rare’ type of otter in waters north of Lantau – an area where they were previously believed to have been locally extinct since the 1960s. Conservationists didn’t directly spot the Eurasian Otter – thought to be one of the rarest mammals in Hong (…)
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