{"id":583588,"date":"2021-03-25T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/?p=583588"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:53:41","slug":"our-newest-project-is-otter-ly-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/bbtw_updates\/our-newest-project-is-otter-ly-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Our newest project is otter-ly amazing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet the river otter, the most adorable\n(in our humble opinion) member of the weasel family! Amphibious river otters\nare known for their playful personalities in water and on land. Their short\nlegs, webbed feet and waterproof fur allow them to enjoy swimming and floating,\nbut because they don\u2019t have blubber, they have to come ashore to rest, find\nshelter and travel between bodies of water. River otters make their homes in\nburrows by the shore, which gives them easy access to the water and their\nfavourite foods: frogs, salamanders, clams, mussels and fish. Sadly, the\nhabitat they rely on is disappearing across North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sink or swim<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baby river otters start their lives in a\nden. They\u2019re born in early spring and there are usually between one and three\npups born in a litter. River otter pups stay with mom for at least a year (or\nuntil she has another litter). What does a river otter mama spend her days\ndoing? Teaching her babies to swim, of course! As surprising as it might be,\nriver otter pups aren\u2019t born knowing how to swim. Before the pup takes its\nfirst lessons (at about 10-12 weeks old), the mama otter brings her baby\neverywhere \u2013 usually riding along on her tummy. We weren\u2019t kidding when we said\nthey were adorable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They need our help!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although they\u2019re found in a wide range of\nhabitats, from wetlands to rivers to shorelines, these spaces are disappearing\nacross North America. Increasing agriculture and growing cities are just two of\nthe threats to otter habitat, but for the river otters that live in the\nSaskatchewan River Delta, peat extraction (the process of digging up the rich\nlayer of decayed organic matter called peat, found under marshes and wetlands)\nand the construction of upstream dams could cause even bigger problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s why Earth Rangers is working with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) on a project that will see an almost 4,000\u00a0km2<\/sup> area of the Saskatchewan River Delta permanently protected. The river delta is a series of connected wetlands and river channels that covers almost a million hectares in the heart of Saskatchewan \u2013 and it\u2019s also one of the most biodiverse landscapes in Canada! It\u2019s home to hundreds of species of plants, birds, fish, and mammals (like the river otter), which makes it even more important that we do what we can to protect it today. Do your part by adopting a river otter to help give the animals we love a safe place to call home for years to come! <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Meet the river otter, the most adorable (in our humble opinion) member of the weasel family! Amphibious river otters are known for their playful personalities in water and on land. Their short legs, webbed feet and waterproof fur allow them to enjoy swimming and floating, but because they don\u2019t have blubber, they have to come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,931],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-583588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bbtw_updates","8":"category-all"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}