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OdySea Aquarium in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a marine aquarium, and the largest aquarium in the Southwest United States. [3] It holds more than 2,000,000 US gallons (7,600,000 L; 1,700,000 imp gal) of water and spans over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2). There are over 6,000 animals and 370 ...
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium is a 215-acre (87 ha) zoo [2] and aquarium in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, near Phoenix. The zoo specializes in African and South American animals, and has Arizona's largest collection of exotic animals. It has a 0.6 miles (970 m) "safari train", a boat ride through the Australian habitat, a tram ...
In 2019, the Center sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program over its killing of thousands of native animals a year in Washington state. [14] Later, in 2020, the case resulted in a determination that Washington State had exceeded its authority and that bear hunting must be curtailed.
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge (CPNWR) is located in southwestern Arizona in the United States, along 56 miles (90 km) of the Mexico–United States border.It is bordered to the north and to the west by the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, to the south by Mexico's El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, to the northeast by the town of Ajo, and to the southeast by ...
Opened in 2015, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West was conceived by former Scottsdale mayor Herb Drinkwater (1936-97) who served from 1980-1996. Located in Old Town Scottsdale, Western Spirit is owned by the City of Scottsdale and operated by The Scottsdale Museum of the West, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2007. A ...
ABC15 spoke to Kim Carr, the Animal Care Manager at the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, who was hilariously quoted as saying, "And it turned out they were grey foxes, which didn't surprise ...
The arboretum's desert legume collection is the first primarily seed-based collection accredited by Plant Collections Network.The internationally recognized seed bank of 1,413 species are housed at the University of Arizona in Tucson, [5] while 121 species are grown in field plantings and the Taylor Family Desert Legume Garden at the arboretum.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study reported a minimum population of 241 Mexican wolves in southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona at the beginning of 2023. [148] There is a large contingent of snakes native to the region.