Pour la loutre en Wallonie: le compte à rebours a commencé

In close connection with the otter conservation, the author rewiews what happened in Belgium since the publication of the report on threatened mammals in Wallony. Despite several deputies interventions in the Regional Council of Wallony, it appears that the legal status of the otter remained unchanged. Field research is still in progress and new occupied sites have been discovered. Unfortunately, hydraulic works are planned and some of them already realized in the river Ourthe, a tributary of the river Meuse, namely in a proportion still inhabited by a relictual otter population.