It's Sea Otter Awareness Week (Sep 18-24)! 🦦 🦦 🦦 An icon of the Monterey Bay, sea otters live in and protect kelp forests and estuary ecosystems like the Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing. By munching on urchins, sea otters help kelp forests flourish, and by crunching on crabs, these aquatic environmentalists promote eelgrass growth in estuaries. Want to learn more about sea otters? Find the top 5 places to spot sea otters their natural habitat on our website (https://bit.ly/3LplLFQ), pay a visi

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release: these are the primary goals for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter program. Surrogate sea otters play a key role in getting rescued pups back into the wild. In the PBS Nature episode "Significant Otters,” Monterey Bay Aquarium sea otter experts keep these little fluffballs thriving through our rehabilitation program. Our rescued otters have contributed to a healthy population in Elkhorn Slough over the years, and we no longer release otters there. We do cont

We’re excited to share the story of rescued sea otter 741! Thanks to a joint effort with The Marine Mammal Center, Office of Spill Prevention and Response - OSPR and our Sea Otter Program, she just returned home to the wild. | Monterey Bay Aquarium