All of us would like to invite you to visit the Sea Zoo - so you can see for yourself that we look after visitors just as well as we care for our hundreds of different inhabitants.

We are committed to providing you with the best possible experience because, with your help and support, we can continue our important conservation work. 

Currently our conservation work includes:

• Lobster Release Programme: breeding lobsters and releasing the juvenilles around the coast of Anglesey.
• Seahorse Conservation: a co-ordinated breeding programme, forming part of the U.K. Seahorse Conservation Group's Breeding Programme.
• Dolphin Rescue Service: providing an 'on-call' service for any local strandings.
• School Education Package: including Guided Tours and Keystage based work sheets which combine fun and learning to ensure a memorable experience. 

Conservation is becoming particularly important today with the ever expanding human population leading to competition for land and space. Many species of plant & animals have already become extinct and others are under great pressure from overfishing and other activities. 

It is for this reason that Anglesey Sea Zoo has developed and is running various captive breeding and stock enhancing projects to try to improve the situation. 

Looking around the world with its littered seas, treeless hills and cities choked with smog it is easy to blame someone else. The industries producing the pollution are making our food and our consumer goods; it's our cars choking the roads and it's our refusal to pay higher prices that contributes to the short-cuts some companies are tempted to take.

We can make a difference; if we're willing to pay more for organic Fair Trade food, if we recycle cans, paper and bottles, and if we keep up the pressure for a sustainable public transport system. 

Our society faces tough choices - birds, insects, butterflies, plants, bats, dolphins and other mammals and reptiles are all under threat in many places.

The Sea Zoo aims to show you a little of the amazing diversity of life in our seas. If you enjoy your visit then please go a stage further and do something, adopt more environmentally-responsible practices in your life, educate yourself and your families. Only we can make a difference.

Some practical things to consider:

• Recycle your household waste.
• Walk, cycle or use public transport - don't always drive.
• Do without a carrier/bag in a shop.
• Choose goods with less packaging and/or biodegradable/recyclable packaging.
• Join a conservation charity e.g. Friends of the Earth (tel: 0171 490 1555) or Greenpeace (tel: 0171 354 5100).
• Go on a Natural Break Holiday organised by the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (tel: 01491 839766).
• Use recyclable packaging such as Green Fill (tel: 0208 963 1444).
• Ask for your local councillor's MP's, AM's and MEP's views on conservation issues - preferably before you vote.
• Donate time and money to those conservation charities whose aims most closely match your own.
• Visit the Centre for Alternative Technology for tips (tel: 01654 702400.
• Aim to cut your electricity bill by using low energy bulbs and tubes and turning off unwanted lights etc.
• Use less water in your home by putting a brick in your toilet cistern and taking showers instead of baths.

"All life on Earth, both animals and plants, is interconnected in a ring of life….The combination has created the wonder of our oceans and our lives. We must respect this treasure and carry it to the future" - Environmental message from Osaka 'Ring of Fire' aquarium.

"This we know - the earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the daughters and sons of the earth. We did not weave the Web of life: we are merely strands in it. Whatever damage we do to the web, we do ourselves" Chief Seattle, American Indian 1850.

"Spaceship Earth - We travel together : passengers on a little spaceship, dependant on its vulnerable reserves of air soil and water" Adlai, Stevenson, US Ambassador to the United Nations.

To contact us email: fishandfun@seazoo.demon.co.uk

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