Shame on These Malls for Working With Interactive Aquariums!

Across the country, reports of animal neglect, deaths, legal violations, and injuries to the public have piled up at interactive aquariums.

Here's just a glimpse of the issues so far:

• Following a long and sordid history of animal neglect and death at its facilities, SeaQuest Holdings, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2024, which resulted in selling four of the locations to new owners who had already been trying to profit from SeaQuest’s shady business of exploiting animals. While the new owners are attempting to rebrand, there has been no indication that they will put animal health and welfare above profits or that they will stop harassing animals through public encounters.
• At SeaQuest Las Vegas, now One World Interactive Aquarium, a 1-year-old sloth named Flash died after a history of weakness, twitching, and lack of appetite. Just nine months later, another sloth named Flash died under similar circumstances at the same facility.
• At SeaQuest Woodbridge in New Jersey, now Woodbridge Aquarium & Wildlife Center, nearly 100 animals died in just five years. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection revoked SeaQuest’s Exhibitor and Endangered Species permits and later confiscated the regulated animals, citing more than 3,500 complaints against the facility from members of the public and former employees, dozens of violations of captive animal regulations, and abysmal conditions.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a critical citation to SeaQuest Folsom in California, now NorCal Aquarium & Wildlife Adventures, after a parakeet was caught in a doorway and died.
• SeaQuest promoted dangerous, direct-contact encounters with wild animals, which have caused a substantial number of physical injuries to unsuspecting customers, including when a coati named Gus bit a visitor and an employee at SeaQuest Layton in Utah, now the Layton Aquarium & Wildlife Encounter.

Regardless of their names, these interactive aquariums are still confining animals in cramped, crowded enclosures inside shopping malls and profiting from their suffering.

Businesses that exploit animals for profit and put animals and the public in danger don't belong at these malls—or anywhere else.

Please contact The Boulevard Mall in Las Vegas to express your disappointment over their support of interactive aquariums:

• E-mail Timo Kuusela, general manager at The Boulevard Mall, at [email protected].

Then, using the form below, please take a moment to express your disappointment to the following malls:

• Layton Hills Mall in Layton, Utah
• Palladio in Folsom, California
• Woodbridge Center in Woodbridge, New Jersey

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