The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated nearly 5,900 square miles as critical habitat for sea otters in the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and Alaska Peninsula.

They may be small in stature, but sea otters are a keystone species. Without them, the marine environment beneath the waves ...

With the habitat protections of the Endangered Species Act now extended to sea otters in Alaska, this iconic species has a fighting chance of recovery.” In August 2000, the Center petitioned the Fish ...

An artist rendering of the new sea otter habitat. While the zoo has had river otters, this is the first time for sea otters, which are two to three times larger than their river counterparts.

Find out more from the Center for Biological Diversity: Sea otter Associated Press, December 16, 2008 Protected habitat proposed for sea otter in Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal agency ...

The first sea otter sighting off the Humboldt County coast in recent years took place earlier this week off the North Jetty. The single 4-foot-long sea otter was seen by amateur wildlife ...

Two North American river otters, Stella and Fynn, arrived at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium Dec. 4 and are getting acclimated to the Florida Watershed Wildlife habitat at Mote.