Animal rights associations, which are campaigning for the two French dolphinariums - Planète Sauvage near Nantes and Marineland in Antibes - to stop welcoming dolphins and orcas as soon as possible, are now worried about the future of these cetaceans. According to one of them, One Voice, the fate of the four orcas of Marineland is sealed. Wikie, the 22-year-old female, her brother Inouk (24), and her two cubs, Keijo and Moana, aged 10 and 12, will go to Japan. Head to Suma Aqualife Park, a giant aquarium near Kobe that brings together 13,000 aquatic animals and more than 600 different species.
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A "scandal" for One Voice and for the association C'est assez ! who want a place of refuge that will guarantee a quiet end to these mammals as the State seems to have committed. According to a law passed in November 2021, and to put an end to this captivity that is no longer accepted by a large part of the population, Marineland and Planète Sauvage have until ...
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