...species list. "I want the federal government to begin protecting the sea otters from extinction," said Brent Plater, a lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity in Oakland, Calif. "We are asking the government not to stand idly by...

...Alaska, where there used to be more than 100,000 sea otters. Now, there could be as few as 2,000, said Brent Plater, a lawyer for the conservation group. In the past 20 years, the decline in the Aleutians could be more than 95 percent...

...protect these whales because we simply don't have time to waste to make sure that these whales recover," said Brent Plater, a lawyer for the conservation group. Sheela McLean, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's...