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 ...

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

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 ...

TODAY THE SOUTHERN SEA OTTER POPULATION STANDS ABOUT 3-THOUSAND ON ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST...NO WHERE NEAR THEIR HISTORIC NUMBERS BUT SCIENTISTS ARE HOPEFUL THEY CAN CONTINUE TO EXPAND THEIR ...

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 ...

“These discoveries have expanded the otters’ range in Hong Kong to the city’s northwest. They are still utilising the entire Deep Bay area and the Shenzhen River catchment area,” Yang said.