Mum and son orcas Wikie and Keijo are the last performing orcas in captivity in France, but with the closure of Marineland, ...

Last March, a marine park in France sparked a firestorm of controversy after two of its orcas died within five months of each ...

Public pressure is growing on authorities to humanely rehabilitate two former performing orcas, following the closure of a ...

President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California in part to honor two ...

These regulations ban the use of dolphins and whales in performances, which traditionally accounted for 90% of the park’s visitor revenue ...

Wikie, 23, and her 11-year-old son Keijo have spent their entire lives in captivity and currently reside at Marineland Antibes in the French Riviera ... the marine park's workers and animal ...

ANTIBES, Jan 6 — A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas in captivity in the ...

The French government then stepped in ... or to rehouse them at the Loro Parque marine park in Tenerife, which is part of the Spanish Canary Islands. Loro Parque has housed orcas since 2006 ...

French lawmakers passed a ban on shows featuring ... Marineland initially planned to send Wikie and Keijo to a marine park in Japan. This plan met with uproar from animal rights groups, which ...