Otters
WHS where otters can be found in the wild.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahwar of Southern Iraq | Smooth-coated Otter | |
| Anticosti | "la loutre (Lutra canadensis)" (Nomination file, p. 66) | |
| Atlantic Forest South-East | La Plata otter | |
| Białowieża Forest | Euroasian Otter | |
| Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | Congo clawless otter (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Canaima National Park | Giant Otter | |
| Central Amazon Conservation Complex | Giant Otter | |
| Central Sikhote-Alin | Eurasian otter | |
| Central Suriname Nature Reserve | Giant River Otter | |
| Cerrado Protected Areas | river otter | |
| Chiribiquete National Park | Giant Otter | |
| Chitwan National Park | smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands | European Otter (Nomination Text, p. 55) | |
| Curonian Spit | River Otter (nom file) | |
| Danube Delta | ||
| Derwent Valley Mills | In the River Derwent | |
| Donana National Park | ||
| Dong Phayayen | Smooth-coated Otter | |
| Durmitor National Park | Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Everglades | River Otters - wiki | |
| Garamba National Park | two species of otter | |
| Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats | "Terrestrial otters (Lutra lutra) also from time to time come down to salt marshes to feast on tidal organisms. Such feces of the otter have been found in many uninhabited islands (22.3% of total uninhabited islands) in Shinan Getbol not to mention near the other component." (Nomination text, p. 90) | |
| Glacier parks | River otter, sea otter | |
| Golden Mountains of Altai | Eurasian otter | |
| Gros Morne National Park | River otters (wiki) | |
| Göreme NP and Cappadocia | European otter | |
| Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago | Asian Small-clawed Otter | |
| Hawraman/Uramanat | "Among animals found in the region are: (...) Eurasian otter" (Nomination file, p. 35) | |
| Hortobágy | In the fishponds | |
| Ichkeul National Park | Eurasian otter | |
| Iguacu | ||
| Iguazu National Park | giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis (EN), La Plata otter Lutra platensis, neotropical otter lontra longicaudis (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Ironbridge Gorge | a swiftly flowing river in which salmon, otter and kingfishers are thriving once again (sse link) | |
| Ivindo National Park | Spotted-necked otter (Hydrictis maculicollis) and Congo clawless otter (Aonyx congicus) (Nomination file, p. 32) | |
| Kaeng Krachan Forest | Smooth Coated Otter | |
| Kaziranga National Park | ||
| Keoladeo National Park | smooth-coated otter | |
| Lake Baikal | Eurasian otter | |
| Lake District | Eurasian otter: "A good place to see wild otters in the Lake District is on Derwentwater, as well as Bassenthwaite Lake" | |
| Laponian Area | ||
| Lopé-Okanda | spotted-necked otter (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Machu Picchu | long-tailed otter (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Manu National Park | ||
| Meteora | Eurasian otter | |
| Mount Nimba | African clawless otter | |
| New Lanark | The WHS boundary includes a section of the River Clyde up to the weir | |
| Noel Kempff Mercado National Park | Giant otter | |
| Olympic National Park | River Otter - Nomination File | |
| Pantanal | Giant Otter | |
| Phong Nha - Ke Bang | smooth-coated otter | |
| Pirin National Park | ||
| Plitvice Lakes | European otter (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Putorana Plateau | Eurasian otter | |
| Pyrénées - Mont Perdu | Ordesa | |
| Redwood | river otter (Lutra canadensis) - AB Document | |
| Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve | Neotropical Otter | |
| Sangay National Park | Giant Otter | |
| Sinharaja Forest | Eurasian otter | |
| Srebarna Nature Reserve | ||
| Sundarbans National Park | "Three species of otter are present, two of which are assessed as Vulnerable (VU) – smooth-coated otter, Lutra perspicillata, and the oriental small-clawed otter, Aonyx cinerea." (IUCN Outlook 2020) | |
| Tajik National Park | ||
| Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley | neotropical otter (nom file) | |
| The Sundarbans | Indian otter | |
| Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng | Smooth-coated Otter - nomination file | |
| Tikal National Park | ||
| Tropical Rainforest Sumatra | smooth-coated otter (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Tugay forests | Mid-Asian otter (nom file) | |
| Ujung Kulon National Park | Eurasian otter, Asian small-clawed otter | |
| Uvs Nuur Basin | common otter (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Vegaøyan | "strong populations of Eurasian otters" (nom file) | |
| Virgin Komi Forests | ||
| Volcanoes of Kamchatka | ||
| Waterton Glacier International Peace Park | ||
| West Norwegian Fjords | ||
| Western Caucasus | Caucasian otter | |
| Western Ghats | Mukurthi NP (wiki) |
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