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25th Anniversary Conservation Film
A new Great Hall film that will play daily will feature the Aquarium’s conservation programs and achievements over the past 25 years.
Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific / Katarina Plummer
The Aquarium has become a local leader in species and habitat conservation. Among the Aquarium’s many efforts are:
- First to breed weedy sea dragons
- Green sea turtle rehabilitation and release
- Green sea turtle monitoring
- Whale photo ID research
- Vaquita porpoise conservation
- Helped to protect and recover birds in the Northern Marianas Islands (Marianas Avifauna Conservation)
- Sea jelly breeding
- Participated in Great Lakes piping plover recovery
- Sustainable seafood programs
- Scientific diving monitoring and data collection
- Reared, released, and monitored endangered white abalone
- First to raise endangered giant sea bass
- Participated in first release of giant sea bass back to the wild
- Participated in largest wild shark survey ever done (FinPrint)
- Beach and wetland habitat restorations
- Monarch butterfly monitoring and habitat
- Seabird rescues (oiled wildlife rescues and terns that fell from nesting barge)
- Coral restoration (SECORE)
- Pioneered shark artificial insemination
- Raised and released endangered mountain yellow legged frogs
- Engaged our visitors and community in conservation
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