Over the next three years, tribes and nonprofit partners will build public awareness of the need to expand sea otters' range. Robert Kentta, elected member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz ...

HABITAT: Sea otters inhabit coastal waters, usually less than half a mile from shore. Their typical haunts include precipitous rocky shores, barrier reefs, tidewater stones, and dense kelp forests.

and U.S. Endangered Species Act protection — have helped sea otters rebound. But local populations are still fluctuating, with many declining. Today the species occupies just a tiny fraction of its ...

An abandoned sea otter is the newest resident at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The aquarium is now asking the public to choose ...

By the end of the 19th century, traders had extirpated otters from nearly their entire Pacific Rim range — including southeast Alaska. “Given a little bit of protection, they recover from whatever we ...

HAMANAKA, Hokkaido--Sea otters have pupped off Cape Tofutsu here in eastern Hokkaido. Four pairs of mothers and pups have been spotted since the beginning of July, in a community of up to 14 otters.