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Marineland’s crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer says. Kristy Burgess, who worked at the Niagara Falls, Ont., park when a young beluga was put down in February, said Marineland’s threat to …

Marineland says it has euthanized a seven-year-old beluga whale after a long battle with several different medical conditions. It is the 18th beluga to die at the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction since 2019. Three other belugas sold to a Connecticut aquarium in 2021 have since died. Kiska, the country’s last remaining …

Another beluga whale has died at Marineland and four years into a provincial probe, Ontario’s solicitor general is saying little about the investigation’s progress. The latest beluga death is the fourth in the past year, provincial records show. Since 2019, 16 belugas and one killer whale have died at the …

A third beluga from Marineland has died at a U.S. aquarium after arriving there two years ago. Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut says the beluga named Kharabali exhibited abnormal swimming behaviour in November and was eventually moved to its intensive care facility 11 days ago. Mystic says staff were giving Kharabali …