The California sea lions on display at Auckland Zoo have a beautiful enclosure at thei disposal, The Coast. This is designed after a New Zealand Coastal ecosystem featuring a beach and a large pool for the sea lions and native Fur Seal (kekeno in Maori language; Arctocephalus forsteri), including an enormous underwater viewing window, and an aviary for little blue penguins and other native shorebirds. The California see lions were born at Auckland Zoo in the 1990s and will be taken care of for the rest of their lives. And although not found in New Zealand waters, they face many of the same threats as their New Zealand cousins and therefore are as good an ambassador for biodiversity and ecosystem health as a native marine mammal. See one such ambassador fly through the filtered salt water tank with a circulating supply.