After missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, sea otters are getting a step closer to staging a comeback.

The petition under the Endangered Species Act cites the importance of range expansion to the recovery of sea otters. It recommends that reintroduction occur in the region between San Francisco Bay and ...

There are about 3,000 southern sea otters in California, down from the tens of thousands that once ranged down to Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has considered an otter reintroduction ...

Coastal tribes have secured a grant to help facilitate a reintroduction, but the status of the money under a current federal freeze is unclear ...

Over the past few decades, conservation efforts — including an international hunting ban, reintroduction programs, and U.S. Endangered Species Act protection — have helped sea otters rebound. But ...

Climbing biologists like Campbell-Spickler are experts at using rope-access techniques to safely enter nests built in tree ...

The threatened Eurasian otter appears to have disappeared in Kyrgyzstan, officials and scientists warned on Friday, following ...

The MMPA does not define what are traditional subsistence uses of sea otters. Some in the environmental community, who view the reintroduction and expansion of sea otters as one step in the ...

the reintroduction of orphaned Southern sea otter pups to the wild; and the large-scale display of creatures such as salmon snailfish and vampire squid, found far below the reach of sunlight in a ...

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (CTSI) has been awarded a three-year, $1.56 million grant from the National Fish ...