The row deepens European Sanctuary

Uncertain future of two killer whales is no more soluble Despite the closure of their home zoo zoo at home two months ago.

Wikie, 23, and his 11-year-old son Keijo was still stored in the Marineland Antides, located in southern France, after which it was closed in January for the OCAS.

Within the months of marineland managers tried to send killer whales to other sea riders they wanted to put in a sanctuary, where orcas did not need.

Orcas is expected to go to another Marine Zoo in Spain when the French government rejected a transition to a Sanctuary in Canada several weeks ago.

But today Agnès Pannier-Rasacher, the Minister of the French minister, said he would talk to Spain’s companions, Italy who included a separate sanctuary. However his proposal has few more details and criticized.

The Ecology Ministry, when asked by the BBC, no further information in which a sanctuary can be found or has funds to build and running costs.

Loro Parque, a Spanish marine zoo who wants to receive killer whales from Marineland, told BBC this week’s “bad position to care for them.

Christoph Kiesling, Vice-President of Tenerife Facility, said whale sanctuaries “today cannot meet complex physiological, social and environmental roles.

Most designs involve bay staff and use wiki and keijo – born in captivity and cannot be released in the wild – properly fed.

Kiessling said such a solution may be if there is more research and planning but “such a process can take many years, leaving two facilities wounded”.

The campaigners were referred to as many Orcas killed in the parque parque in the past few years, including three March 2021 and September 2022.

Marine Zoo managers said scientific examination of the Orcas of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria shows the dead inevitably.

They also fear that Wikie can be used for childbirth. Loro Parque announced January Morgan, the only woman in three orcas stored at the moment, pregnant.

Katheryn is wise, from the Charity World Animal countries in the World, Loro Parque as finally a leisure business using Orcas to make money.

He added: “Morgan’s pregnancy replaces the fact that the parquet can never be a suitable option for wiki and keijo and should be taken as an option.”

Marineland, who pays further care of the Orcas, says that one step in the parquet’s at least interests in the welfare of animals. They request the ecological ministry to approve the transfer.

Canadian whale sanctuary applied to the French government obtained in Orcas last year but their bid was rejected in January.

They were told on the site they had chosen to Nova Scotia so far away and that the water had a very cold for wiki and keijo, spent their lives in southern France.

Follow the Pannier-Runacher’s suggestion for a European sanctuary, which he announced a Fortunda on Instagram, the directors of the proposed idea of ​​the Mediterranean.

They wrote a letter to him where they quoted David Perpiñán, a diplomat in the European College of Zoologicine. These two orcas do not belong to ecotypes seen in the Mediterranean. “

He added: “The possibility of building a sanctuary for them in the Mediterranean is probably the worst possible choices.”

The directors also said, unlike European proposal, their sanctuary is ready to start building while the design is over.

Other groups of animal rights are more welcome by Pannier-Runacher’s announcement, saying that a European sanctuary is better for the benefit of the orcas than life zoo.

The shepherd, a society of care of the sea, replied to the Minister of Instagram that it was a chance to achieve a sanctuary at the zoo where the captives of the orcas could enjoy their lives.

Pannier-Radacher said his video knows that the strong feelings of people where Wikie and Keijo needed.

He did not reign sent them to the parquet parque or other sea zoos, only “opposed any transfer to a site inappropriately for the arrival of orcomating” Orcas.

November he has blocked an application in Marineland to send killer whales to a marine zoo in Japan, which deals with the nation’s welfare welfare regulations.

The ‘year of the sea’ was started by the French government, a government initiative that raises the importance of the ocean, and the Pannier-Runacher believes that a Sanctuary in European whales.

“I didn’t tell you that it works,” he told Instagram users. “But nobody ever dares, no one gets.”