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Sea Otter Education and Outreach
A critical component to Defenders of Wildlife’s sea otter conservation and recovery program is education and outreach. It is our belief, that through providing educational information, the public is best positioned to know the latest sea otter conservation and recovery issues, efforts, and facts.
Sea Otter Education Trunk
Defenders of Wildlife will provide, with a refundable deposit, a trunk containing sea otter educational materials (books, sea otter skull, sea otter paw molds, fact sheets, prey items, puppet). This trunk is housed in our Sacramento, CA office. If interested, please get in touch with Pamela Flick, Defenders’ California Program Coordinator, at pamela.flick@defenders.org and Jim Curland, Defenders’ Marine Program Associate, at jim.curland@defenders.org
Sea Otter Bilingual Education Unit
Defenders of Wildlife provides a bilingual sea otter education
unit, combining reading, technology, writing, social studies,
conservation activities, maps, a glossary, and additional resources.
This teaching unit has been aligned to California, Oregon and
Washington state education standards.
Download the
Unit
Sea Otter Awareness Week
Sea Otter Awareness Week, held the last week of September, is an annual event sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife. We work with national and international zoos,
aquariums, marine institutions, researchers, educators, the public and
others to focus awareness on sea otter conservation and recovery.
View This Year's Events and Activities
We are committed to working with law enforcement agencies to stop the illegal killing of imperiled species. This incentive helps to uncover information in incidents involving a variety of species, including bears, lynx, sea otters and wolves.
Sea Otter Information Links
Visit the following sites for more information on sea otters:
- Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care & Research Center-Reporting a Dead Sea Otter
- Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care & Research Center
- Sea Otter Research Web site
- Monterey Bay Aquarium-Sea Otter Research and Conservation Program
- Oiled Wildlife Care Network-U.C. Davis
- Otternet
- Sea Otter Research at Western Ecological Research Center
- Ventura Fish & Wildlife Office - Southern Sea Otter Translocation Page
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Alaska Sea Otter
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southern Sea Otter Profile
