Sea Life Kansas City
Interactive aquarium with touch pools and a 360° ocean tunnel.
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Where it is
Coordinates: 39°04′55″N 94°34′52″W (39.0820, -94.5810) · Open in OpenStreetMap
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Sea Life Kansas City is an interactive aquarium situated at the Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. It houses thousands of aquatic animals and features hands-on touch pools as well as a 360-degree ocean tunnel. The facility is owned and run by Merlin Entertainments.
The aquarium participates in several conservation efforts. It has bred and raised nine different seahorse species, which helps prevent their extinction and ensures no wild seahorses are taken for display; it may also supply seahorses if wild populations vanish.
Sea Life collaborates with seal sanctuaries to care for orphaned or injured seal pups, successfully rescuing and releasing over a hundred each year. It also offers permanent homes to aquatic creatures that are injured or disabled and would otherwise be killed or euthanized. Additionally, a fundraising campaign by Sea Life funded the construction of a Sea Turtle Rescue and Wildlife Information Centre on the Greek island of Zakynthos, where turtles injured by boat collisions or fishing gear are treated.
Lore & Background
Sea Life Kansas City is situated at the Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The facility houses thousands of aquatic creatures and offers interactive touch pools as well as a 360° ocean tunnel. It is owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments. The aquarium participates in several conservation activities, including seahorse breeding, seal rescues, re-homing of injured or disabled aquatic creatures, and a fundraising campaign for turtle protection.
Reader's Guide
Sea Life Kansas City is notable for its conservation efforts, which are integrated into its operations. The aquarium has successfully bred and reared nine species of seahorse, a program that prevents the need to take seahorses from the wild and may allow for resupply if seahorses become extinct in the wild. It works with seal sanctuaries to care for orphaned and injured seal pups, with over 100 seals successfully rescued and returned to the wild each year.
The aquarium also provides permanent homes for injured or disabled aquatic creatures that would otherwise have been killed or euthanized. Additionally, a fundraising campaign run by Sea Life has enabled the construction of a Sea Turtle Rescue and Wildlife Information Centre on the Greek island of Zakynthos, which treats turtles injured by collisions with pleasure craft or entanglement in fishing gear. These activities form a core part of the aquarium's identity and legacy.
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- Wikipedia: Sea Life Kansas City (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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