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Vancouver Aquarium’s Valentine’s After Hours: Three ‘o-fish-ally’ awesome extras

January 20, 2020

Join Vancouver Aquarium for an intimate evening under the sea, complete with babysitting and… a wedding? Whether you are single, coupled, engaged or parents – everyone will find something to love abo...

Q&A with Ian Urbina, author of The Outlaw Ocean

Ocean Wise

January 19, 2020

Aquablog, Vancouver Aquarium

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ian Urbina spent five years exploring lawlessness on the high seas. In his new book, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, Ian uncover...

Ocean Wise’s Top Nine Achievements of 2019

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January 19, 2020

Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium

At Ocean Wise Conservation Association, we empower action for ocean conservation. The oceans are in crisis and there is so much to be done, but Ocean Wise is proud to say that we made a difference in 2019. Her...

Meet Carlos Drews, Ocean Wise’s new EVP of Conservation

Ocean Wise

January 6, 2020

Aquablog

Following a competitive international search, Dr. Carlos Drews has joined Ocean Wise as executive vice president of Conservation. Carlos brings a wealth of global conservation leadership experience to Vancouve...

Ocean Wise’s new “Octobus” provides FREE transportation for schools

Ocean Wise

January 1, 2020

Aquablog, Education

Thanks to the generosity of Ocean Wise donors, Ocean Wise Education has a new bus to transport school groups to ocean education programs at the Vancouver Aquarium! Trips on the 55-seater “Octobus” are FR...

Halloween at the Vancouver Aquarium: Half-priced admission for Costumed Kids and other spook-tacular offerings

Ocean Wise

October 18, 2019

Aquablog, Vancouver Aquarium

With plenty of spook-tacular creatures (like sharks, spiders, snakes, bats and jellyfish), the Vancouver Aquarium®, an Ocean Wise® initiative, is the perfect place to kick-start your Halloween celebrations...

Vote for the Oceans on October 21: A Message from Lasse Gustavsson, Ocean Wise president & CEO

Ocean Wise

October 18, 2019

Aquablog

Canadians speak proudly about Canada stretching from “sea to shining sea.” Those seas (all three of them, actually) are under serious environmental threat. As we approach the October 21 Canadian federal el...

Ocean Wise Applauds Canada and 5 G7 Countries Committed to Reducing Plastic Pollution

Ocean Wise

June 9, 2018

Aquablog, Ocean Wise

Today’s adoption of a global plastics charter by five G-7 countries, including Canada, to target single-use plastic waste reduction is a timely and significant step for protection of our world’s oceans. “As ...

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