Living Coasts, located in Devon, is a unique facility, part aquarium, part highly-specialized zoo, focusing on marine and coastal life. It won awards for its beautiful aviaries of sea birds, and was renowned for its seals, otters, penguins, and many fish. I would have loved to have visited someday. It looks like that chance won't come.
I'm so sorry for the keepers and other staff members who are seeing the end of a facility that they worked so hard for, as well as the community that lost such a spectacular jewel (the animals I don't worry about as much - I know they'll all find good homes). It's a worrying reminder of how fragile our facilities can be - and it makes it hard not to watch the ongoing pandemic with increasing dread, as we never know what turn it might take next.
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