Northern sea otters didn’t get federal safeguards along with their California cousins. So in 2000, the Center petitioned the Service to protect otters in southwest Alaska as a “distinct population ...

Meanwhile, the population of sea otters has risen. Sea otters were recovering from near extinction in California in the early 2000s. The new study is first-time evidence that the recovery of the ...

She knew one of the largest shifts at the reserve over those years was the sea otter population. Sea otters, which had long ...

Since scientists first spotted them in 1995, Glacier Bay’s sea otter population has skyrocketed by an average of 42 percent each year. In 2012, the tally reached about 8,500 individuals. It is one of ...

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 ...