The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge in Nova Scotia for captive whales says its bid to provide sanctuary to two orcas from a theme park in France has been rejected.
The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge in Nova Scotia for captive whales says its bid to provide sanctuary to two orcas from a theme park in France has been rejected by the French government., issued a statement today saying France has turned down the group’s proposal to provide a oceanside retirement home for Wikie and Keijo, the two surviving killer whales at Marineland Antibes .
As well, the department said in a letter that the proposal may not meet the scheduling requirements of the marine park on the French Riviera, which was closed earlier this month to comply with a French law that bans dolphin and killer whale performances.The law says the whales must be moved outside France by the end of this year, but the Whale Sanctuary Project has yet to complete construction of a seaside pen in a bay near Port Hilford on Nova Scotia’s eastern shore.
Marino’s statement says France’s decision means Wikie and Keijo will be sent to Spain’s Loro Parque zoo in the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa.
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