Taiji dolphin captures for sale to marine mammal parks go on––& still no viable sanctuaries for displaced whales & dolphins CHICAGO, Illinois; NIAGARA, Ontario; TAIJI, Japan––September 1, 2026 ended one long chapter in the history of marine mammal captivity, as the last six beluga whales left Marineland of Niagara Falls. Another chapter began, however, […]
“High-tech drones waging aerial dogfights” come to U.K. hunt sabotage
“Nearly all of the country’s 60 hunt saboteur groups now own at least one drone” LONDON, U.K.––“The battle between hunters and hunt saboteurs is being waged with high-tech drones in aerial dogfights,” headlined Steve Bird and Jack Leather of The Telegraph on September 21, 2025. “The Telegraph has established that nearly all of the country’s […]
What killed 18 Marineland of Niagara Falls & Mystic Aquarium belugas?
Whales in captivity have always had high death rates, but this is the worst for belugas ever NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario; MYSTIC, Connecticut––The December 13, 2023 death of a nine-and-a-half-year-old female beluga whale named Kharabali at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut would be just bad news, except Kharabali was the third beluga to die among a […]