Ontario will no longer allow orca whales to be put in tanks for profit.
The ban is a symbolic victory for the province’s only captive killer whale, Kiska, who was caught in the wild and has been living in her concrete tank in the Marineland amusement park for 37 years.
Phil Demers, a former senior trainer at the park who is now campaigning against the park’s poor animal welfare standards, told The Dodo that the lack of laws around marine mammals made it impossible for him and his colleagues to report the animal neglect they witnessed.
Photo: Orca at Marineland by Spencer Wright under the license CC by 2.0