Private funding is set to help California’s sea otters recover
… [T]here’s only about 3,000 sea otters in California. The playful predators’ voracious appetite for destructive species like green crabs and purple urchins has transformed Elkhorn Slough, the state’s second-largest estuary, into an aquatic Serengeti and makes the central coast’s carbon-sequestering kelp forests more resistant to climate change. … The US government determined in 2022 that reintroducing sea otters on California’s North Coast and Oregon would be a boon to biodiversity and climate resilience. … But as the Trump administration moves to slash funding for wildlife programs, a nonprofit co-founded by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur is stepping in.
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