{"id":182983,"date":"2025-10-01T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:58:08","slug":"ottawa-denies-marineland-request-to-export-its-remaining-beluga-whales-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182983\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa denies Marineland request to export its remaining beluga whales to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa has denied a request from Marineland to send its <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/video\/2025\/09\/04\/beluga-whale-and-harbour-seal-living-in-marineland-have-died\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remaining beluga whales to China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says the federal government will not grant an export permit to ship the 30 whales to the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson says approving the request would mean a continued life in captivity and a return to public entertainment for the whales.<\/p>\n<p>She says the decision is consistent with a 2019 law that banned whale and dolphin captivity, made entertainment shows illegal and forbade breeding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/04\/marineland-beluga-seal-deaths-doug-ford-ontario\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty whales have died at Marineland since 2019<\/a>, and the 30 that remain are the last captive whales in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Marineland did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa has denied a request from Marineland to send its remaining beluga whales to China. Fisheries Minister Joanne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-182983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}