- By supporting environmental conservation,
- not accepting pollution,
- not buying fur or pelts,
- ensuring fish nets and roads near otter populations build in protection for otters, and
- telling your friends about otters.

How Can You Help Save Otters ????

Support environmental conservation - Habitat destruction, including urban and agricultural development in areas otters more densely populate, is a prime root cause for the declining otter population in many areas. You can help by continuing to recycle and be sensitive to the impact building has on the world ecosystem. Remember - earth is 4.6 BILLION years old, marine invertebrates have been here for 570 million years or so, dinosaurs lived for 160 million years here starting 225 million years ago, mammals have populated earth over the past 65 million years, early man dates back at most 2.5 million years, and man expanded around the globe including North America 30,000 years ago (around 10,000 years ago for South America). Now consider that major western civilizations did not begin until several thousand years ago and mass transportation only several hundred years, you can clearly realize we have only been here on earth an extremely short time.

During this short time, and accelerating rapidly in the past 50-100 years, we have recklessly destroyed much of the ecology surrounding us that took hundreds of millions of years to evolve. We all need to help change this direction and become good caretakers of our planet so we do not destroy it (and ourselves) in such a short period of time !

Do not buy fur or pelts - Purchase of these products encourages the wreckless killing of animals including otters. Discourage your family and friends from buying real fur.