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Marineland: A Graveyard?

December 30, 2012

(MARINE PARKS) Ontario’s Environment Ministry is investigating four mass animal graves at the notorious theme park, Marineland, after a newspaper expose confirmed suspected cases of animal abuse and neglect. According to a former park employee, the potentially illegal graves contain the bodies of over 1,000 orcas, dolphins, seals, walruses, bears, bison, deer, and other animals. Read on to learn more about Marineland’s fishy history and voice your objections regarding the lack of captive-animal protection laws. — Global Animal

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Baby Walrus Moves To Big City (VIDEO)

October 23, 2012

(ANIMAL RESCUE) Life for walrus calf Mitik looks a little brighter, as he is happily settling in his new home in New York. Mitik, or Mit for short, separated from his herd in the Arctic Ocean, becoming orphaned in Alaska in July. Mit resided temporarily at the Alaska SeaLife Center, where shortly after an eager staff from the New York Aquarium came to meet and retrieve the pup. Read on to learn more about Mitik and his touching journey to a new home. — Global Animal

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Confirmed: Marineland Is Not A Place For Animals

August 16, 2012

(ANIMAL WELFARE) After much speculation and controversy, a recent expose has finally confirmed the maltreatment and neglect of animals at Marineland in the Great Lakes. Eight former Marineland employees came forward, providing the sad details of animals’ physical suffering and poor living conditions at the amusement park. A surge of new protesters are expected to join an animal advocacy group in a demonstration outside Marineland this Saturday, where copies of the investigation will be handed out to people entering the park. Read on to learn more about the details of the investigation. — Global Animal

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Baby Walrus Wants A Hug

August 6, 2012

(ANIMAL VIDEO) The Alaska SeaLife Center is rehabilitating a stranded baby male Pacific walrus, estimated at only four to six weeks old. This little guy is so sweet, he just tries to hug everyone! — Global Animal

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Walruses Forced To Dry Land

September 20, 2011

(CLIMATE CHANGE) ALASKA —  Walruses are crowding along the Alaskan shoreline instead of breeding during their summer months on ice sheets in the Chukchi Sea, recent documentation reveals. This relocation caused by climate change is resulting in calves being crushed by forced proximity and dangerously deep waters for feeding, further threatening the endangered walrus species.  Read on why walruses need ice and the prospects for the mammals’s future. — Global Animal

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