Sea Life Arizona is a 26,000 square foot interactive

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located at Arizona Mills mall in Tempe,

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. The aquarium contains thousands of aquatic creatures, plus interactive touch pools and a 360° ocean tunnel. Sea Life Arizona is owned and operated by

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, which operates over forty other aquariums in eleven countries on 4 continents. Eight of these are in the United States.

Main species

Conservation

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. Sea Life aquariums worldwide breed many species of

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, which are at risk of extinction because of overfishing and trade.medicine.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/seahorse/vincent.html Some Sea Life facilities also have seahorse exhibits to educate visitors about the creatures and their threatened status.

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