Climate Change

Without sea otters, urchins would kill the kelp that absorbs carbon dioxide and other warming gases. If the atmosphere heats up, it will lots of other living organisms. Otters are highly sensitive to water temperature changes, so global warming would be devastating to their species. Climate change hasn’t affected otters yet, but in the future, some factors like oil pollution will kill them. Otters are particularly vulnerable to oil; it soaks the otter’s fur, preventing the the fur from keeping air that keeps the animal warm. Eventually, it will die from hypothermia. The otter is an endangered species and keystone too, so we should try to keep them alive.