Sea Otter
1741 CE - 2014 CE
“An intensive commercial fur trade, from 1740 until about 1900, resulted in the sea otter being harvested almost to extinction, and by 1900, the sea otter was so rare that commercial harvesting was forced to cease. Sea otters were protected by an international treaty in 1911. Since then, numbers have recovered to an extent, but human activities, especially coastal development and marine pollution, now pose a threat to the sea otter.”
Source: ARKive Image: Paxson Woelber, CC-BY-SA-4.0
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