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Please see below for our recent press releases. Digital images and b-roll video are available on request; please contact our public relations team.
Credit: Robbin Riggs
November 10, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific Announces New President CEO: International Conservation and Animal Welfare Leader Jeffrey Flocken
Flocken brings decades of leadership experience in successfully garnering support for and facilitating action to save species around the world.
October 17, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific Honored by Long Beach Unified School District for Its Partnership
The Aquarium was presented with the Wayfinder Recognition at LBUSD’s Partners & Pathways Celebration for the non-profit’s role in supporting student workforce readiness
October 6, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific’s Twenty-First Annual Southeast Asia Day Celebrates Local Communities
The festival’s program will highlight the cultures of Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Aquarium announces that it will honor the Long Beach Cambodia Town Business and Cultural District with its Heritage Award during this year’s festival
September 29, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific Invites Southern California College Students to Apply To its CELP Scholar Program
Recipients of the program will have the opportunity to network, participate in community building events to explore STEM career paths, join a growing community of peers, and will each be awarded $10,000
September 19, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific Releases a Rescued Green Sea Turtle into the Wild after Rehabilitation
The sea turtle was rescued, brought to the Aquarium for medical care and rehabilitation, and was released at Seal Beach
August 20, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific Partners with UC Environmental Stewards for Climate-Change Education and Service Course
The UC Climate Stewards certification course was co-designed with the Aquarium to provide community members ways to enhance ecosystem resilience locally in the face of climate change
August 11, 2025
Rescued Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Returns Home After Receiving Months of Care at the Aquarium of the Pacific
The turtle was rescued in December 2024 on Pismo Beach, transferred to the Aquarium of the Pacific where it received care and recovered, and released in the open ocean
July 15, 2025
Hundreds of California red-legged frog tadpoles raised at Aquarium of the Pacific released in the Santa Monica Mountains
Biologists rescued the threatened species, after extreme weather and wildfire disrupted native breeding grounds, as part of an emergency effort after the LA wildfires
July 2, 2025
Aquarium of the Pacific Welcomes Community Leaders and Philanthropists for the Blue Whale Gala and First-Ever Whale’s Tail After Party
Approximately 629 guests attended the Blue Whale Gala and Whale’s Tail After Party, an event created to showcase and raise funds for the non-profit Aquarium’s education and conservation initiatives
July 1, 2025
New Penguins—Inca and Milo—Make Their Debut at the Aquarium of the Pacific
The Aquarium of the Pacific is welcoming two new Magellanic penguins—Inca and Milo.