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The colorful bottom of a tidepool crowded with anemone, starfish, urchins in a dazzling array of colors and sizes.

For Love of Waterkind

Water makes life possible. This vital resource shapes our city and the world around us, flowing outward and connecting every living thing. But the water we all depend on is changing, and it’s up to us — a collective of caring hands and curious minds — to safeguard the source of life itself.

Guided by this core truth, we restore habitats, advance animal welfare and empower communities to take action for aquatic life. 

This is our promise. Our philosophy. Our invitation:

For animals who swim, glide and leap.
For water that connects us.
For people who call this planet home.
For Love of Waterkind

The Voices of Waterkind

  • Three bright orange clownfish swim among the trailing pink fronds of an anemone.
  • A staff member introduces a pair of young black girls to the moon jellies living behind the scenes at Shedd.
  • A black man in a wetsuit smiles over his shoulder, standing in a lush Amazon Rising exhibit.

Deep dives, early mornings, challenging moments and triumphant achievements are par for the course in a lifelong passion to conserve and defend aquatic animals and ecosystems. Shedd team members tell their stories of how science and compassion collide, all in service of the water that connects us.