VICTORY! Kanaloa Octopus Farm has permanently closed! The state of Hawaii has decided not to renew Kanaloa’s lease after months of pressure from animal activists, media exposure, and even a complaint led by Harvard Law School. Read the groundbreaking exposé that led to this triumph for octopuses everywhere and exposed the facility as little more than a petting zoo that collected tourists’ dollars to fund the creation of an octopus factory farming industry.
Thanks to your help, this victory directly saves the hundreds of octopuses who were captured and subjected to fatal breeding experiments every year, as well as countless bobtail squids who were allegedly being bred and sold at the facility, and hermit crabs and other small invertebrates being tested for suitability as feed for young octopuses. Moreover, it spares potentially thousands or even millions of Hawaiian day octopus lives, had the facility's research led to the creation of a factory farming industry for this species.