@montereyaq: Let’s sealebrate by highlighting how the Aquarium’s volunteers and interns impact healthy habitats in Monterey Bay. 🌊 📸 Southern sea otters are a keystone species in the bay’s kelp forest ecosystems, greatly affecting the habitat's health and diversity of marine life. A healthy sea otter population = a healthy kelp forest. 📸 Volunteers with our sea otter program help care for abandoned, sick, or injured animals rescued along the California coast. This is an important step in the overall process to return healthy sea otters to the ocean to support the wild population. 📸 Our dive interns have a direct impact on kelp forest research and conservation. They play an important role in collecting data on the biodiversity and function of kelp forests, and how sea otters contribute to their recovery. Together, our interns and volunteers are helping support healthy wildlife populations and habitats in Monterey Bay. 🦦🌊 #montereybayaquarium #aquariumtok #earthmonth2025 #volunteerappreciationmonth #volunteer

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