Explore recent news stories covering the Elakha Alliance and sea otter restoration!
- 4/13/2021 Coos Bay World: Oregon Zoo Foundation awards $40,000 For Conservation
- 1/26/2021 Former OSU graduate student and marine biologist Dominique Kone publishes his research evaluating a prospective sea otter reintroduction on the Oregon coast.
- Register Guard 1/7/2021 Pacific sea otter reintroduction gets a nudge from Congress Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley for Oregon added the paragraph to the federal budget bill that directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study the feasibility and cost of reestablishing the marine mammals where they were once hunted to near-extinction along the Pacific coast in Oregon and Washington, the Northwest News Network reported.
- Marin Independent 12/14/2020 Study Exonerates Sea Otters as Major Dungeness Threat: Despite concerns from fishing groups, a new study finds crab catch increasing, even as sea otter population expands.
- New York Times 12/3/2020: Archaeologists Could Help Bring Otters Back From the Dead: The sea mammals vanished from Oregon’s coast long ago, but a technique from human archaeology offers a clue to restoring them.
- KQED 11/10/2020: Sea Slugs Scrub Sea Grass by the Seashore
- Oregon Public Broadcasting 11/2/2020: Will Oregon See Sea Otters Again: Biologists Consider Reintroducing Sea Otters to the Orgon Coast
- Willamette Week 11/2/2020: Oregon’s Cutest Marine Mammal Has Been Extinct in the Wild for Almost Two Centuries. The Elakha Alliance Wants to Change That. In Oregon, the adorable sea otter can only be found in captivity.
- New York Times 9/10/2020: When Sea Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
- BBC 8/18/2020: The Sea Otter Rescue Plan that Worked Too Well
- Smithsonian Magazine 6/12/2020: Bringing Back Sea Otters Benefits People, Too: These predators compete with fisheries for shellfish along the Pacific coast, but an economic analysis explains the positives of reintroduction
- University of Oregon 6/2/2020: UO research explores how Native Americans used sea otters
- KUOW/NPR 6/17/2020: Does Cuteness Count? A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Sea Otter Return to Oregon
- Oregon Public Broadcasting 6/23/2020: Good News for Sea Otter Fans: A Cost Benefit Analysis Encourages Oregon Return
- Corvallis Advocate 6/24/2020: Economic Benefits of Reintroducing Sea Otters to the Oregon Coast
- NPR 6/11/2020: What Happens When Sea Otters Eat 15lbs of Shellfish a Day
- Oregon Public Broadcasting 2/14/2020: Bringing Back Oregon’s Sea Otters Get Federal Bucks for Feasibility Study
- Daily Astorian/Northwest News Network 2/17/2020: Sea Otters Could Return to the Oregon Coast: April Study to Look at Reintroduction Effort