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, ...

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 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.