{"id":303788,"date":"2025-12-19T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-canadas-marineland-whales-could-be-euthanised\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:00:52","slug":"why-canadas-marineland-whales-could-be-euthanised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-canadas-marineland-whales-could-be-euthanised\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Canada&#8217;s Marineland whales could be euthanised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/zk8nhTPc64M\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why Canada's Marineland whales could be euthanised\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zk8nhTPc64M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to see,\u201d says Kristy Burgess, a former Marineland beluga trainer.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcrete is breaking off from the tanks because they\u2019re falling apart and not being repaired.  The whales are curious and so they pick it up and swim around with chunks in their mouth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Marineland, an aquarium and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, closed its doors to the public in the summer \u2013 but inside the park, 30 captive beluga whales remain in concrete tanks.<\/p>\n<p>A federal law passed in 2019 bans the sale, breeding and captivity of whales.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of the ban means that while Marineland\u2019s existing cetacean population can remain at the park, no new whales can be acquired.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s government refused a request by Marineland to export its remaining belugas to China over concerns that the animals could face further mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>Marineland has threatened to euthanise the belugas if the Canadian federal government does not provide financial support.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s Leyland Cecco, who has reported extensively on Marineland for the Guardian\u2019s Seascape series, explains the story of how the whales got caught in the middle of a bigger fight over their future.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 19 belugas have died at the park since 2019 \u2013 for the full article about the fate of the park\u2019s beluga whales tap the link \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/26\/canada-captive-beluga-whales<\/p>\n<p>#belugawhales #whales #whale #marineland #canada #beluga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to see,\u201d says Kristy Burgess, a former Marineland beluga trainer. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 \u201cConcrete is breaking off from the tanks because they\u2019re falling apart and not being repaired. The whales are curious and so they pick it up and swim around with chunks in their mouth.\u201d Canada\u2019s Marineland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[148625,129441,148626],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-303788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-heartbreaking","tag-its","tag-see"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Canada&#039;s Marineland whales could be euthanised | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why Canada&#039;s Marineland whales could be euthanised for free, here on News ISC. 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