The Galleria Mall has partnered with controversial SeaQuest, an animal confinement exhibits creator. SeaQuest's animal welfare track record is appalling. Some 300 animals died in one of their last projects due to neglect and mistreatment. They were later accused of poor animal care and blamed for the untimely deaths of large numbers of animals at the Portland Aquarium which has now since closed.
One of SeaQuest's operators also spent 1 year in federal prison for conspiring to purchase protected species of rays and sharks illegally captured in the Florida Keys for display at one of their other aquariums.
Their plan is to capture a variety of marine life, removing them from their safe and familiar natural habitats and placing them on display for our entertainment in enclosed tanks. This is also supposed to be an interactive exhibit, where the public can touch some of these confined creatures, adding to their stress and creating an unsanitary environment for the public and the possibility of picking up bacteria from these sea animals.
If you believe it's immoral, inhumane, unnecessary and just a generally bad idea for the Galleria Mall to partner with a company with the kind of animal welfare track record SeaQuest has, please make your voices heard so we have a chance to stop this from taking place.
Please contact the Galleria and urge them to reconsider the addition of an aquarium at the mall:
Mark Trouba, General Manager
The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale
Email: mark.trouba@am.jll.com
Please send a copy of your email to the mall's property manager, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL):
Kim Salvatori, Vice President, Leasing Representative
JLL
Email: kim.salvatori@am.jll.com
Thank you!
