What does SeaWorld do with their money?

SeaWorld protects animals across the globe, and the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund is an important part of those efforts. The Fund has granted more than $14 million to over 1,000 projects in 60 countries and on all seven continents around the world.



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In 2022, SeaWorld Entertainment registered 1.73 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in the United States. This figured represented an increase of over 15 percent versus the previous year, when the theme park company recorded a revenue of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars.

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SeaWorld Entertainment's CEO is Marc Swanson, appointed in Apr 2020, has a tenure of 3.5 years. total yearly compensation is $1.14M, comprised of 39.6% salary and 60.4% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.23% of the company's shares, worth $6.68M.

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PETA notes that “dolphins [at SeaWorld] are being impregnated, sometimes forcefully after being drugged.” Even moreso, PETA highlights how although orca whales generally stick within their pods their whole lifetime in the wild, “SeaWorld transfers orcas between facilities to regularly 'balance' the genetic pool of ...

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A former trainer says animal abuse was common at SeaWorld. His colleague, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by Tilikum, a male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld and became famous from the 2013 documentary Blackfish.

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The company has revealed that SeaWorld parks received 6.1 million visitors in Q2 2023, a decrease of 125,000 guests when compared to the same period last year.

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As of 2021, SeaWorld has ended its use of orcas in its shows and breeding program. In 2016, SeaWorld announced that it would no longer breed orcas in captivity and that its current orcas would be its last.

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