OTTER KILLED BY BEER PACK'S PLASTIC HOLDER

Ranger urges public to pick up rubbish to help protect our wildlife from danger

- SHAUNA CORR

AN otter has been found dead on an Irish beach with a plastic beer ring cutting into her neck. 

Ranger David Ferguson made the grim discovery last week while working for Donegal’s LIFE on Machair project, conserving the coastal area and at-risk birds like lapwings and curlews.

Otters are also protected in Ireland as the species has declined because of threats such as habitat loss, pollution and accidental death.

David told us: “It was a real shame. They are coming back but things like that don’t help.

“It was along the back of the fence at the high tide line. It was an adult female otter.”