{"id":74554,"date":"2025-10-02T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/canada-marineland-beluga-whales-"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:02:14","slug":"a-life-of-captivity-canada-refuses-marine-parks-request-to-export-its-whales-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74554","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A life of captivity\u2019: Canada refuses marine park\u2019s request to export its whales to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fisheries minister says rehoming Marineland\u2019s cetaceans in China would only \u2018perpetuate the treatment\u2019 the whales have endured<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a>\u2019s government has refused a request by the beleaguered Marineland theme park to export its remaining 30 beluga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/whales\">whales<\/a> to China due to concerns that the whales will face further mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>Marineland, an amusement park, zoo and aquarium in Niagara Falls, has one of the largest captive whale populations in the world, and has long been mired in controversy amid reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jan\/14\/last-captive-whales-canada-marineland-ontario-beluga-deaths\">poor conditions<\/a> for the animals on display.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/canada-marineland-beluga-whales-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fisheries minister says rehoming Marineland\u2019s cetaceans in China would only \u2018perpetuate the treatment\u2019 the whales have enduredCanada\u2019s government has refused a request by the beleaguered Marineland theme park to export its remaining 30 beluga whales to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,50,468,1746,94,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-marine-life","category-whales","category-wildlife","category-zoos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554\/revisions\/74555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}