French marine park to close over law banning killer whale shows
Animal activists have been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move France's ecology minister said she opposed over Tokyo's more lax animal welfare laws. Marineland was hit by a firestorm of controversy in March after two of its orcas died within five months of each other. The park, near Antibes on the French Riviera, has some 4,000 animals from 150 different species. But visitor numbers have dropped from 1.2 million a year to just 425,000 over the last decade. Читать дальше...