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Sea Life Arizona
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Sea Life Arizona is a 26,000-square-foot (2,400-square-metre) interactive aquarium located at Arizona Mills mall in Tempe, Arizona. The aquarium contains thousands of aquatic creatures, plus interactive touch pools and a 360° ocean tunnel. Sea Life Arizona is owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments, which operates over forty other aquariums in eleven countries on 4 continents.[1] Eight of these are in the United States.[2]
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Main species
[edit]Conservation
[edit]Sea Life Arizona provides permanent homes for injured or disabled aquatic creatures who would have otherwise been killed or euthanized. In 2002 the facility became the home of an endangered green sea turtle named Ziva, who was placed in the Tempe aquarium's 161,000 gallon display.[2][3]
Sea Life aquariums worldwide breed many species of seahorse, which are at risk of extinction because of overfishing and trade.[4][5] Some Sea Life facilities also have seahorse exhibits to educate visitors about the creatures and their threatened status.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Visitor's Guide to Sea Life Arizona Aquarium". Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
- ^ a b "Survive Phoenix heat: Take the kids to a cool aquarium".
- ^ "Help Center - the Arizona Republic".
- ^ "International Protections for Seahorses Take Effect May 15 | Press Releases | WWF". www.worldwildlife.org. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014.
- ^ medicine.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/seahorse/vincent.html
- ^ "Save Our Seahorses". www.saveourseahorses.org. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012.
