some type of adult girl

the-awkward-turt:

montereybayaquarium:

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is here for you — and for the ocean — during the coronavirus crisis. But it’s hitting us hard in many ways and we need your help, right now, to come back strong. Please urge your congressional representatives to support emergency relief funding for us and other nonprofit aquariums, zoos and museums!

Under normal circumstances, visitor revenue makes much of what we do possible, including our exceptional day-to-day care of over 80,000 animals and plants, our rescue and rehabilitation of stranded sea otters, and our work to tackle the greatest threats to the health of our ocean planet. But our ability to continue this vital work is uncertain due to the unprecedented loss of revenue during our closure. 

We look forward to the day we can welcome you back to the Aquarium in person, and continue building the world our children—and all of us—deserve. Until then, you can help us by asking your congressional representatives to support emergency funding for nonprofit aquariums, zoos and museums in the next relief bill. Thanks for your conseaderocean! 

I’ve shared posts like this before, but I’m sharing it again. AZA zoos and aquariums are hurting right now, with a massive loss of revenue and animals that still require round the clock care, specialty food, veterinary care, and expensive life support systems.

Zoos are maintaining their high animal care standards even through this tragedy, often cutting the pay of higher ups so that money can be funneled into paying for animal care and animal care staff, but they can’t keep it up forever.

Please tell your representatives to include AZA zoos and aquariums in COVID-19 relief legislature. The link above will take you to a page where all you have to do is type in your information and it will auto generate letters to all your representatives.

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