Sam Colbert
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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But as regulations tighten and attendance falls, some of the parks and aquariums that house them are shutting down.
And that's led to a new problem.
Those bans on captivity make no provision for what happens to existing animals.
At Marineland in Canada, 30 belugas have been living in decrepit pools almost two years since any tourist has visited.
At another park on the French Riviera, two orcas have been circling dirty tanks, still a year and a half after the place closed.
Both species can live for over 50 years, so what should happen to them?
Releasing them is not a viable option.
Whales in human care lose their survival skills.
Most scientists agree that if you left them to fend for themselves in the ocean, the animals would struggle to survive.
Another idea is to send them to parks that are still open in other parts of the world.
That's mostly what's been happening.
But simply relocating their confinement doesn't feel like a real solution.
Which brings me back to Little White and Little Grey, the belugas in Shanghai who moved to the world's only whale sanctuary.
They found a third option.
I traveled to Iceland to see if it was working.
The sanctuary is on a small island off the south coast of Iceland.
As you approach its harbour from the sea, you pass a bay formed by a horseshoe of sheer cliffs.
In the world of Wales, this is a special place.
As our boat enters the bay, Jana Surova, a conservationist and my chaperone, points out a metal plate fastened to the rock face.
Keiko is probably history's most famous orca.
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