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

Holidaymakers heading on winter holidays this year are being warned against buying tickets for attractions where captive ...

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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 ...

ANTIBES, Jan 6 — 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 ...

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 ...

French lawmakers passed a ban on shows featuring ... Marineland initially planned to send Wikie and Keijo to a marine park in Japan. This plan met with uproar from animal rights groups, which ...

The French government then stepped in, publishing a report in which it said that the only acceptable options were to send the orcas to a new sanctuary in Nova Scotia, Canada, or to rehouse them at the ...