What I failed to highlight in my previous post about our lovely visit to the Albuquerque Aquarium is the spotlight they place on current environmental dangers and what we can do to aid in conservationism.
Before the exit to the restaurant and gift shop, they have this display of "plastic soup," the horrible scourge of our oceans that devastates wildlife populations dependent on the seas.
And this magnificent sculpture made out of trash items commonly found in the oceans.
One of the amazing things that makes the Albuquerque Aquarium so special is that they propagate endangered coral reefs, to later revitalize damaged reefs and populate other aquariums across the globe. They do this by collecting "frags," or small cuttings from existing captive coral reefs, and providing them with the perfect environments to grow.