{"id":42125,"date":"2024-04-05T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/?p=42125"},"modified":"2024-05-28T00:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:09:55","slug":"otter-tracks-found-in-the-tourtoulen-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/actualites-en\/otter-tracks-found-in-the-tourtoulen-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter tracks found in the Tourtoulen woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An otter is roaming in the Tourtoulen woods!<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41691\"  class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41691 size-blog-small\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-1-640x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">European otter tracks in the Tourtoulen woods<\/span><\/span> \u00a9 Carole Leray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These fresh footprints were spotted by our teams on the banks of the Rh\u00f4ne, in the Tourtoulen woods, the day after the floods. This site, owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral and managed by the Tour du Valat, is the largest remaining riparian forest in the Camargue. These typical footprints belong to the European otter, a semi-aquatic carnivore that lives alongside rivers and streams, as well as in various types of wetlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We&#8217;ve known for around ten years now that this species has returned to the Camargue, after being hunted out in the middle of the last century. But this small carnivorous mammal knows how to be discreet during the recolonisation phase, leaving few signs of its presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having been spotted in various places in the delta in recent years (Marais du Vigueirat, EMSC, Grande Cabane du Vaccar\u00e8s, Mahistre&#8230;.), we now know that the otter also frequents the riparian zone of the Tourtoulen woods!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The otter\u2019s return is good news for wetlands: it indicates that this predator finds plenty of prey (fish, crayfish, etc.) and signals the good health of these environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41733\"  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41733\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tourtoulen-vu-du-Rhone-jan-08-anthony-olivier-640x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tourtoulen woods as seen from the Rh\u00f4ne<\/span><\/span> \u00a9 A. Olivier - Tour du Valat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41693\"  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41693\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Loutre_Tourtoulen_17032024\u00a9CaroleLeray-7-1320x1320.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Otter footprints<\/span><\/span> \u00a9 Carole Leray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An otter is roaming in the Tourtoulen woods! &nbsp; These fresh footprints were spotted by our teams on the banks of the Rh\u00f4ne, in the Tourtoulen woods, the day after the floods. This site, owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral and managed by the Tour du Valat, is the largest remaining riparian forest in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":41692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[28,29,776],"class_list":["post-42125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-en","tag-biodiversity","tag-camargue-en","tag-wetlands","country-camargue-en","country-france-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42126,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125\/revisions\/42126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}