The Canadian government blocked Marineland's attempt to export the animals to a park in China.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50739392

A Canadian amusement park is threatening to euthanise 30 beluga whales after the government blocked its request to send them to China.

The park is said to have told ministers that it was in a “critical financial state” and unable to provide adequate care for the whales

    • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      They’ll most likely end up slowly starving to death…or quite possibly die from something even worse. It would be very much like if a human was dropped off in the middle of the wilderness, and left to fend for themselves. They’d maybe last a week.