Captured Beluga Whales Who Were Forced To Spend Their Lives In Chinese Aquarium To Be Flown To Sanctuary

AmyBrown

Mar 1, 2019 2:00 PM EST

Two beluga whales captured from the wild and forced to spend their lives performing in a Chinese aquarium are to be flown to the world's first open water beluga whale sanctuary in Iceland! Story found on The Times.

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Little Grey and Little White

via The Times

The beluga whales will be released into the world's first beluga whale sanctuary, in a remote bay in Iceland!
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This April

via The Times

The move is set to occur April after being flown 6,000 miles from captivity at Changfeng Ocean World in Shanghai.
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via The Times

"This will be the world's first sanctuary created to rehabilitate captive cetaceans such as whales and dolphins," said a spokesman for Britain's Sea Life Trust, which is behind the project.
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New future

via The Times

It hopes that the sanctuary, on the island of Heimaey, will eventually become home to dozens of more whales released from captivity.