{"id":202729,"date":"2025-10-10T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202729\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:19:18","slug":"30-beluga-whales-could-be-euthanized-at-canadas-defunct-marineland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202729\/","title":{"rendered":"30 beluga whales could be euthanized at Canada&#8217;s defunct Marineland park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over two dozen beluga whales at the now-defunct Marineland amusement in Niagara Falls, Ontario, could be put down, as reported by <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.btpm.org\/local\/2025-10-07\/despite-threat-of-euthanizing-belugas-ottawa-tells-marineland-no-money-from-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Toronto Public Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The park said that if it doesn&#8217;t get a commitment for financial help, it would have to start euthanizing the 30 beluga whales.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Fisheries Minister said Marineland is responsible for the whales, but Marineland said it has no other option after permits were denied to export the whales to China.<\/p>\n<p>Animal rights groups are now calling on the Canadian government to intervene and seize the whales.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/news\/local-news\/30-beluga-whales-could-be-put-down-at-marineland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This story was originally published by the Scripps News Group station in Buffalo, New York. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over two dozen beluga whales at the now-defunct Marineland amusement in Niagara Falls, Ontario, could be put down,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[98575,49,48,33173,66525,99668,905,66,323],"class_list":["post-202729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-beluga-whales","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-euthanasia","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ontario","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202729","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=202729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}