Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Michael MacDonald
Publication Date: January 28, 2025 - 15:57
France rejects bid to move two killer whales to proposed refuge in Nova Scotia
January 28, 2025
The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge in Nova Scotia for captive whales says its bid to provide sanctuary for two orcas from a marine park in France has been rejected by the French government.Lori Marino, president of the U.S.-based Whale Sanctuary Project, issued a statement Tuesday saying her group received a letter last week from the Department of Ecological Diversity saying experts had turned down the proposal to build an oceanside pen for Wikie and Keijo, the two surviving killer whales at Marineland Antibes.
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