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The Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act (French: Loi visant à mettre fin à la captivité des baleines et des dauphins) is an act of the Parliament of Canada. Passed into law in 2019, the Act bans the capture and keeping in captivity of cetaceans (the biological taxon comprising whales, dolphins, and porpoises).
Marineland was the last facility in Canada to hold a captive orca. It is a privately held themed amusement and animal exhibition park in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and one of the main tourist destinations in town. [60] The last orca held there was Kiska, who died of a bacterial infection on March 9, 2023, ending orca captivity in Canada.
Marineland (official name Marineland of Canada Inc.) is a themed zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. It is operating on a reduced scale while it is slated for redevelopment. No amusement rides are operating and it is claimed that all land animals have been transferred from the facility.
Ikaika swimming along in a tank at Marineland of Canada located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on June 11, 2007. Ikaika (pronounced ee-KY-ka; Hawaiian for "strong") is a male orca born at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida on August 25, 2002. He is the offspring of Tilikum (father) and Katina (mother), making him Katina's fifth calf. To decide the ...
Kiska (died March 9, 2023) was a captive orca housed at Marineland of Canada. She was nicknamed the World's Loneliest Orca because she spent the last 12 years of her life completely alone. [1] [2] Kiska was the last captive orca to be held in Canada as a result of the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act. [1]
Elizabeth Meader Hanson (September 17, 1684—c.1737) was a colonial Anglo-American woman from Dover, New Hampshire, who survived Native American Abenaki capture and captivity in the year 1725 alongside four of her children. [1] Five months after capture, a French family ransomed Elizabeth and her two children in Canada.
Argamani was in captivity for eight months before she and three other hostages – Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv – were rescued in an Israeli operation that Gazan authorities ...
Tilikum (c. December 1981 [1] – 6 January 2017), nicknamed Tilly, [2] was a captive male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida.He was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [3]