The Canadian amusement park threatens with euthanasia 30 Baleines Beluga

A Canadian amusement park threatens with euthanasia 30 BELUGA whales after the government blocked its request to send them to China.

Marineland in Ontario had hoped to unload the cetaceans in a theme park in Zhuhai, after having undergone years of concern for animal welfare and financial misfortunes.

But their transfer was refused by the Canadian government last week for concerns they would face superior quality treatment as “public entertainment”.

He then asked that federal funding could continue to take care of animals – but this was refused, being marked “inappropriate” by the Minister of Fisheries, Joanne Thompson.

In the absence of funding, as he finishes operations, Marineland has now said that she should put the Belugas to sleep, according to the New York Times and CBC News.

He said it was “a direct consequence of the minister’s decision”.

The park declared last week to the ministers that he was in a “critical financial state” and unable to provide adequate care for the whales, having been closed during the summer while it suppressed the animals still there.

But Thompson said that Marineland’s absence of a viable alternative for the Belugas did not imply that the Canadian government should pay the bill for their care.

Marineland had hoped to send the Belugas to the kingdom of the Ocean Chimelong to Zhuhai, which is located between Hong Kong and Macao in China.

Thompson denied his export permit, saying that strengthening the laws on peaches in 2019 which made it illegal to use whales and dolphins for prohibited entertainment.

“I could not conscientiously approve an export which would perpetuate the treatment that these belugas have endured,” she said.

“Approaching demand would have meant a continuous life in captivity and a return to public entertainment.”

Marineland reviews began in 2020 when Animal Welfare Services opened an investigation into the park.

He found that 12 whales in the park had died over a period of two years and said that all of the park’s marine life was in distress.

In November, a fifth Beluga died in one year, taking the total number of whales deceased since 2019 at 20, according to the news agency The Canadian Press.

While visitors to the park were starting to fall from Marineland who became bogged down in the financial crisis, he won an appeal in February to revolutionize his own land and collect funds to move animals while looking for a new buyer and closed its doors this summer.

Animal well-being activists expressed their indignation at the conduct of Marineland and the possibility that whales can be killed.

Camille Labchuk, executive director of the Canadian animal rights group, said that Marineland had “a moral obligation to finance future care for these animals”, adding that threats to the animals were “reprehensible”.

World protection of animals has called on the provincial government to grasp the belugas, saying that it “must be leadership and ensure that these animals receive the best possible care”.