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Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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You missed the point: this was a transfer of live animals as part of an orderly shutdown of a decades-old park that was wildly successful in its time. Without the rmtransfer the animals will either starve or be euthanized.
These animals cannot be released or they'll be dead in no time.
The official blocking the removal of the animals to a new habitat simply doesn't understand that there is no life for these animals outside a proper enclosure.
Marineland became dicks. But this is them being least-bad. Let them shut down as best as possible, or it's Whale Stew for weeks.
It could be argued that finding a new home for them is worse in the long run as it has more potential to prolong abuse and captivity of whales. If the new home loosens their standards and started abusing the whales, new whales could be brought in and abused as the older ones pass away. Euthanasing could bring an end to that cycle, although none of options here are particularly good.
Or these get euthanized and new ones are caught where they where going to do. Is the most likely outcome.
What would take longer to kill them, starving or the allegedly guaranteed death from releasing them?
Seems to me that they'd stand a better chance in the wild compared to being left in a tank to starve.
I think this is the argument people give for abandoning their pet dogs in the countryside. We all know the dogs never stand a better chance. I doubt the whales would either.
Just euthanize them it is much more humane. Or you think releasing them and having them starve is humane?
Everyone is screaming about the treatment (and I mean justifiable), but no one is willing to offer an actual solution. I ain't an expert on the topic of Beluga whales, but I mean if a wild release was possible and the best solution, why aren't these people getting involved then? Likely because it's maybe not the best solution.
So that leaves the government of Ontario to step in, and OK, but problem remains the same. All these supposed sanctuaries that people want them to live in, again, where are they and why aren't they stepping in? Because such a thing might not exist.
Would love to be totally wrong here, but this has the makings of a boondoggle.
Someonen else linked a link where they can be rehabited, probably too much cost for the shitty park