Rediscovering otters in Nepal!

Hi everyone, thank you again for your donations towards our search for otters in Pokhara Valley. Things have been moving a little slower than hoped, but that's very normal in this part of the world, and we're still on track. We had to get permission from a government department to conduct the field work, and we've been told our application should be approved soon. We've just ordered the eDNA samplers from Wilderlab, and a friend of ours will bring them to Nepal next month, saving us a very large courier bill! My student is getting ready the survey of local residents, and will do that in the next 2-3 weeks. All of that will prepare the way for us to do the actual water sampling for otter eDNA in late April, comfortably before the monsoon rains begin. We're looking forward to beginning soon!

Thanks again for supporting this work. We missed out on one grant we had applied for, so your donations are all the more important. We're still waiting on the results of one grant application, but whether or not we get it, each donation you've given allows us to get more samples analysed.

Thank you again, Richard