Articles for tag: California wildlife, Endangered Species, marine conservation, Save The Otters, Sea Otters

a couple of sea otters playing in the water

Could California Lose Its Sea Otters Forever?

Suhail Ahmed

California’s sea otters have always felt like a comeback story written in salt spray and stubbornness. Once nearly wiped out by the fur trade, they clawed back along a narrow sliver of the Central Coast, transforming bays and kelp forests as they went. But the plot has twisted again: bites from white sharks, warming seas, ...