The closure of a marine zoo in the south of France has sparked intense debate over the future of its inhabitants, including two beloved orcas.

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 country, hundreds ...

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

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 ...

The two Atlantique 2s will take part in the La Perouse 2025 exercise in the Indonesian archipelago together with the Charles ...

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 ...

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 country ...

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 country ...

A French theme park said Wednesday that it would close early next year over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, including the two last orcas in captivity in the country. Animal ...

The park, near Antibes on the French Riviera, has some 4,000 animals ... of World War II -- opened the park entirely dedicated to marine fauna based on what he had seen in the United States.