ELKHORN SLOUGH – Though sea otters are an unofficial mascot of Monterey County and popular amongst tourists and locals alike, they are also described as voracious predators that help keep ...

Jeppesen, a scientist for the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research ... The sneaky snackers? Sea otters. Once nearly wiped out by the fur trade, these playful predators had made a sudden ...

Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they were hunted to near extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries. But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters ...

At the same time, Elkhorn Slough is the only California estuary where the sea otter successfully has reestablished a substantial population. And the sea otter has been increasing in population ...

After being absent for more than a century, an effort to repopulate the Oregon Coast with sea otters is in the works. Oregon non-profit The Elakha Alliance was founded in 2018 by Tribal leaders and ...

Julie Packard, the longtime CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, announces her retirement, marking the end of an era of significant conservation achievements.

ELKHORN SLOUGH IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR...THE SEVEN MILE ESTUARY IS HOME TO MORE THAN A HUNDRED OTTERS... MANY OF THEM CONNECTED TO THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM OTTER PROGRAM....SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS ...

The worms “basically just look like a giant hotdog,” said Isabella Rose, a naturalist with the Elkhorn Slough Safari boat tour operator. “And the otters really like to eat them.” The southern sea ...