Canada: 14 whales have died at aquarium since 2019, exposé reveals

Marineland in Niagara Falls, Canada, has been visited 160 times by Ontario’s animal welfare services since January 2020. Photograph: Henry Georgi/Getty Images/Aurora Creative

Fourteen whales and a dolphin have died since 2019 at a popular Canadian aquarium and theme park, according to a new investigation by the Canadian Press.

Of the marine animals that have died, 13 were belugas and one was Kiska – the “world’s loneliest orca”, who died of a bacterial infection after four decades in captivity, the last 12 of which were in isolation.