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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.

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Jeffrey Flocken headshot

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.

A person with long dark hair in a black dress and another person with medium length blonde-brown hair in a dark top and blue pants holding a glass object

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

two people dressed in southeast asian ornate dress with a blue background

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

Group of people dressed up wearing blue lanyards

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

People in blue shirts hold onto a turtle to point it towards the ocean.

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

Orange Garibaldi fish swimming near kelp

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

Two people lift a turtle onto a towel on the edge of a boat

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

Three amber-colored California red-legged tadpoles looking slight up towards the right.

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

Great Hall filled with nighttime dinner guests below a model blue whale

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

Two penguins with their wings outstretched underwater

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.

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