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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
This is the only captivity I support (that is, if they can’t live without human assistance). Zoos should be illegal. Imprisoning animals for the crime of being an animal
This mischaracterization of zoos needs to stop. They do important conservation, preservation, and public outreach work.
And the zoo who fed one of their giraffes to the lions because they had too many giraffes was doing important conservation work?
This isn’t a zoo, it’s a shitty theme park.
Criticisms of Marineland date back several years, and in 2020 Animal Welfare Services opened an investigation into the park. It found that 12 whales at the park had died over a two year period and declared all the park’s marine life to be under distress. Some 20 whales have died at the marine park since 2019 - five of them in 2024 - according to news agency the Canadian Press.
Zoos are necessary and should only contain animals that do not show signs of stress when in captivity, the fact is people don’t protect what they don’t love and they don’t love what they don’t know. This is one of the only ways to get people engaged with conservation.
this one sucks though.
You can make zoos that are ethical, it just that most are highly unethical. I was at a zoo earlier this year that only kept a few types of animals but they were given a lot of space to roam about and that properly mimicked their natural habitat. They had space to go to if they wanted to be away from people.
Ethical care and treatment should be the standard but our world is designed to extract the maximum profit possible while minimizing everything else.