Friends of the Earth campaigner and Green Party candidate Anthony Bown claimed it would disturb large numbers of seabirds on the Taw and Torridge Estuary, along with the habitat of endangered otters.
Other than the gibbons the wild life in the reserve reported are: Great Barbet (Megalaima virens); Grey-headed Parakeet (Psittacula finschii); grey leaf monkeys (Semnopithecus); Crab-eating Mongoose (Herpestes urva), tiger (Panthera tigris); smaller cats; Dhole (Cuon alpinus), bears (two types); otters; sambar (Cervus unicolor); and wild cattle (Gaur).
Vogel further cites Gerard as dismissing Schoolcraft's opinion that the name was from negikanamazoo, or "otters beneath the surface" as an "etymological absurdity".
In 1969, Clark made his final film, Ring of Bright Water, playing the Storekeeper in the film about otters which starred real-life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna.
As of 2011 The Otters have ceased to be a band and Mark now plays with members of the Otters under the moniker The Astronauts again.
Recent additions are red wolves, Cinereous Vultures, a Canadian lynx, four Asian short clawed otters, and pallas's cats (will be out once an exhibit is built).
She discovered her passion for otters while volunteering at the Bronx Zoo, where the zoo's curator introduced her to these endangered sea and river mammals.
With state-of-the-art Gymnasium and Cardiovascular facilities, a volleyball court, exhaustive libraries and two great restaurants, Otters Club remains one of the most exclusive social addresses in Mumbai.
A micro-moth, Pammene trauniana, can be found - also dippers, kingfishers, buzzards, otters, bats and damselflies.
Born in Lancaster, Lancashire, Bale attended Ripley St Thomas School and first swam with the Carnforth and District Swimming Club (Carnforth Otters).
Due to the draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes during the presidency of Saddam Hussein it was feared that the Iraqi population of otters may have perished but a biodiversity site review in 2009 found tracks of an otter, suggesting that the population may have survived.
It had an Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) capable of taking Otters and Caribous planes, which has now been abandoned.