Морские бобры

It's Sea Otter Awareness Week! Love otters? This is a great time to get involved and do your part to help save them. The southern sea otter is making a slow recovery after once being hunted to the brink of extinction for their soft and warm pelts. By the early 1900s sea otters were thought to be extinct from California, but then, in 1938, locals in Big Sur discovered a population of about 50 that had survived. There are only about 3,000 southern sea otters left in the wild today. And in recent years their population growth has stalled and many hurdles for full population recovery remain, including overfishing, disease, nutritional deficiencies, habitat degradation, coastal pollutants and contaminant exposure.