Articles for tag: HabitatRestoration, NatureConservation, RiverOtters, wildlife, WildlifeRecovery

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New Jersey’s River Otters Are Back After 100 Years

Suhail Ahmed

  At dawn on a glassy backwater, a whiskered head breaks the surface where, for decades, nothing but an oil-slick rainbow once shimmered. The comeback isn’t accidental. It’s the visible result of years of patient wetland restoration, dam removals, and the slow cleaning of rivers that once ran brown. River otters, long absent from some ...