Scaled-down Marineland reopens in Ontario without rides and animals
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Marineland, a popular attraction in Niagara Falls, has reopened its doors after a troubled off-season. The park, which faced allegations of animal cruelty and the death of beluga whales, has scaled back its operations, closing some rides and animal exhibits as part of a redevelopment plan.
The attraction was found guilty in March under Ontario’s animal welfare legislation for failing to comply with an order related to the care of three young black bears.
"I think they are on their last legs, but there should be an end to this," Michèle Hamers from World Animal Protection Canada said.
Global's Sean O'Shea reports.
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So basically a parking lot with some Belugas.
Aka, the parking lot to any Walmart.
@@Superintendent_ChaImers 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah but you still gotta cough up 15 bucks per
So I took a visit and it's not bad. You still get to see belugas and dolphins swimming but no more shows and the bears 🐻 mercifully are gone though no idea where they moved them. Still it's nice to walk around as it has a special place in my heart but without rides and restaurant closed it does feel like it's missing the fun.
@@jonfreeman9682 aka the amusement?
Just shut the place down
They could make it work focusing on the rides. A good example is SeaWorld.
@@jonfreeman9682seaworld is never a good example of anything.
Shut it down rezone the land and have an actual park with no animals
@@CATSWITHKYLA Eh it's a good example of slowly moving into an aquatic themed amusement park instead of what it used to be. Atleast they're trying 🤷♂️
I am 70, when I was a child and they first opened. We the people were asking for water and shade for their deer . I’m a resident of NFalls… it’s been horrific to watch them grow and make millions on the soles of these animals!
I went there as a kid in the early 2000s and it was exactly the same, we always wondered why there was no shade for the deer. Just a barren desert of an enclosure. 60 years the place has been open and I doubt one thing was ever done to improve the welfare of the animals in that whole span.
I live nearby and love to visit and support the place as it's a great family outing and admission tickets were reasonable. I've never been to SeaWorld so this was Canada's version though there is a marine park in Vancouver BC as well. I remember the catchy Marine Land jingle from the 90s and visiting it in 90s to 2000s to today it really hasn't changed much. The dolphin 🐬 shows were entertaining and you can see orcas and belugas but I often wonder if they're happy living in captivity and if we as patrons buying tickets is part of the problem. The saddest thing I've seen was the bears 🐻 all huddled in the shade at the bottom of a pool staring up at us like they were asking for help. I'm not sure if it's because they were suffering heat stroke in the sun so that's why they're in the pool in the shade but it doesn't seem natural for bears to be in a pool all day and it seems overcrowded. Honestly I'm not sure what's the right thing to do but perhaps a good example is to look at SeaWorld where they've changed their program more towards education. I haven't been to SeaWorld so don't really know but there has to be a way to balance a fun educational aquatic center with humane treatment of animals.
@@jonfreeman9682 i heard that it was one family that owns this and they're a bunch of selfish greedy MFR's.
Please tell me you're a vegan
@@williamshanks8959 You don't have to be vegan to care about animals...
No rides and no animals? So what the hell is there to do there?
I was born and raised in Niagara Falls. You could have asked what the hell there was to do at Marineland in 1999 -- when there were still animals and rides there. You could do the whole park in a few hours pretty easily -- it was never worth the ticket price.
That’s what I came here to find out lol. No food, no rides, no animals. So it’s a parking lot?
@@ash3227 Are they still charging admission?
I live in Niagara Falls and wonder how or even why they’re still open. To be open in this limited capacity is insane in my opinion.
@@dirtyforksmtb Why? To wring the last dollars they can out of the public, would be my guess.
New radio jingle: “EVERYONE HAAAATES MARINELAND”
God I remember that jingle on commercials back in the 2010s as a kid lmaooo.
We used to sing it that way 20 years ago
@@TemmieContingenC same new memory unlocked 😭
There's a special place in hell for the owners, cause of the horrible way they have treated the animals in captivity. I hope they shut this place down.
I agree, hope you are vegetarian , otherwise you will join them there 😂
Attitudes have changed over the years. Just look back at all of the circuses, bear shows, gladiator games etc. Hell is full. It has been for centuries.
"Without rides and animals" so open for what? Still $100 to park and get in?
only ghost of animals are there 👻👻
I thought the same. No rides and no animals, then what do they have?
I checked it out and it's worth a visit as it's only $15 🎫 and free parking. Good walk in the park 🏞️ and you can see whales orca dolphin 🐬 swim freely but no trick shows anymore with dolphins jumping thru hoops. No bears anymore either. Restaurant is closed so bag your lunch and grab your walking shoes and have a picnic there. Yeah rides are going thru renovations still. Give them a chance. I think under new ownership they're going to make it into a mini SeaWorld and Wonderland.
@@jonfreeman9682 in other words see the whales orca dolphin before they die also.... bears have been killed off already , rides are being "renovated" in other word shut down permanently .... a desolated and sad theme park .
They are trying to sell it with their amusement park license. They potentially can get more for it that way
Est 1961. Close it down! Sell it or revamp the place into a human water park the size of Great Wolf Lodge or bigger. They have the space to do great things there. Use this space properly without exploiting animals!! The people will come….
Revamping it into a water park is their best bet. At least it'll give people another option aside from Wild Water Kingdom and Canada's Wonderland.
Marine land was sold earlier this year and the new owners are evaluating what to do with the park
Or replace the animals with animatronics.
@@annetteslife better yet holograms
@@KarolinaBernolak that is even better. Thank you
Free the Belugas!!! Free the Dolphins!!!! Close down Marineland, charge them and throw them in jail!!!!!
None of the whales, dolphins etc. can be returned to the wild. They wouldn't be able to survive. The only true Free Willy scenario we have seen was expensive, resource intensive, lengthy and ended poorly. So it becomes a matter for caring for them better while they remain in captivity for the rest of their natural lives and not brining in additional animals.
@@seanwebb605 😔 😢 that's really sad.
@@JourneyToSelf-Love9 Maybe someone will come up with a better way to rehabilitate animals that have been in long term captivity or born into captivity. But it's likely that the entire process will take longer than any of the current animals have left to live.
@@seanwebb605do your research, Kieko returning to the wild did not end poorly. We was free. He even interacted with other orcas but never joined their pod. He’s health also improved. It was a success.
@@karmabutterfly7985 That's not even close to being accurate. The evidence shows that by any reasonable standard the project was a failure. Keiko (the correct spelling) remained reliant on human contact and feeding. Pods, schools, prides, flocks and packs are incredibly important in social species for survival. And Keiko never truly rehabilitated and returned to nature. Keiko died prematurely. It might have given you your cinematic moment. You enjoyed your Free Willy experience. Keiko was never aware that their suffering and early death gave you that satisfaction. In your own view the limited time in open waters rather than a tank is better. But it was not a successful project. Not by any standards. Maybe something can be learned and future attempts can be more successful. But right now if anyone really does their research they will see how difficult this is. They will see that there is limited public support for public dollars needed to go into these projects. They will see very limited support from private donors. There can be a preserve or sanctuary created for the remaining whales in captivity. It would be incredibly costly to construct and staff such facilities. Realistically those whales currently in captivity will live out the remainder of their lives in captivity. Say what you will about breeding more in captivity and capturing and bringing more into these facilities.
Caged marine life of that size has always felt wrong and I've stopped going to my local aquarium. Get those animals outta there!
Shut it down completely stop wasting people's time and money
How does it waste our money if we don't go? It's not run by the government.
Then how do you pay for the care of the animals that will still be there?
It's a beautiful park but it needs renovations and it can be like mini version of SeaWorld.
My thoughts are with the animals too ❤
What's the point of opening at all? Are they that desperate for what little they'll get in admission costs? The remaining animals should be put under protective custody by a government agency, and said agency should work at finding new habitats for these animals, which Marineland should pay for. Just my opinion.
I think the point was funds to feed whatever animals cannot be rehabilitated to the wild like the marine mammals, since even if they are reintroduced they usually just die anyways. its not a win/win scenario.
@@dyllanweich I understand that the animals cannot be left to fend for themselves in the wild at this point. Hence why I said "finding new habitats", and not releasing them. Also, I would think that what little money they are generating these days would go towards any operating costs (which includes feeding the remaining animals). I have a relatively good idea how much the fish cost to feed the whales (if they're still buying the "fit for human consumption"). Not cheap (unless they changed to low quality fish).
I can't believe this dump is still open. Shame on the government and those idiots still going there.
What do u even do there now lmao
It's a metaphor for Canada as a whole. Just shut it down.
@@jububoobaroo67🤔 well excuse me then 🙄where do you live that’s so great?
@@jububoobaroo67imagine if you think a country can be shutdown LOL
@@NicholasJScott tell me, how do I get to Rhodesia then?
The only "animals" are those visitors who support such travesty
And those who eat meat
@@sunrise1975italia Our species eats meat. It helped give us our big brains. We could eat less meat. We could treat the domesticated cattle better. We might even get lab grown meat to supplement our needs. But one species eats another. We're not capable of photosynthesis and can't simply consume inorganic material to provide the necessary amino acids.
Exactly
Went here once and was horrified by the way the animals are kept. Should reopen the science center and shut places like this down forever. Zoos are prisons where all the captives are innocent...
I mean there are SOME good zoos … but most are glorified prisons for animals for sure. Especially when they keep animals that aren’t suited for the weather in because of the ‘weather’
They are domesticated and poisoned with chlorinated and fluoridated water just like the human population, maybe its not just the whales the need saving.......Just living in modernity as a human being is like a prison on the outside. If we don't free ourselves not much else will be....
I felt the same way about the Toronto Zoo. I was kind of dragged along unwillingly. I was not very happy. I couldn't even fake it for the kids. At one point I had to go back to the car and have a quiet breakdown.
Some of the exhibits were nice. They had a large, but indoor, area for the monkeys.
Alot of times ofc not all zoos take i endangered animals or injured ones unable to return to the wild. While it may not be as big and wonderful as the wild I think theres been alot put in to ensure the care of animals in need@VoidHalo
@@Hulachowdown No there aren't. All zoos are bad, they all thrive on the exploitation and imprisonment of animals. You know, there used to be human zoos and I guarantee people said the same thing about some of those human zoos; "there are some good human zoos". All zoos are bad. Stop spreading misinformation and lies
Opens without animals? Aren’t dolphins animals?
Nah they fish 🐟
@@huntertiborcz1106Dolphins aren’t fish, they’re aquatic mammals, but even if they were fish they’d still be animals, lol.
@@rayray8687 It was a joke 😂
@@rayray8687 Keep those fishes alive 🐟🐠🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐟🐟🐠🐠
@@MrUranium238I just ate fish.
The fact that the government is allowing this to go on at the suffering of these animals tells you everything you need to know about the state of any federal or provincial government in Canada these days.
"These days" we'll just ignore the passivity of the last 60 years of government too?
Meanwhile racoon and squirrels getting road killed everyday but no one cares cause it's not a whale
@@basmentbois You do realize the population of Racoons and Squirrels are MILLION times larger than whales right? Literally the furthest animals from going extinct possible basically.
Those animals arent held in a cage and make their own free will @basmentbois
When I was a kid in the 70s , it was called "Marineland and Game Farm". They had a petting zoo with small deer and goats. There were pens with antelopes and slightly more exotic herbivores, but the main attraction was the "Killer Whale". They had a few performing sea lions and dolphins, but everyone came to see the "Killer Whale". There were no amusement park rides. It's been proven that these marine mammals don't do well in captivity, so I think it's time to just shut the place down.
Turn this land into a giant amusement park. It has no future with animals!
I’d like to know who these people are who showed up, and what motivates them to support Marine Land.
Immigrants who don't know better and tourists are the majority of Marineland's customers
They literally don't care and turn a blind eye, as long as their kids have fun
non-vegans. The fact they already support animal cruelty with every single meal, they don't see anything wrong with this
The durr crowd.
Yeah you can see this when you travel to Carribean and tropical countries. Nearly every tourist town has a captive dolphin expedition advertised within a half hour of your resort.
No animals and no rides? what's left? mini donuts? or have they cut those as well?
Mini donuts and funnel cakes.... 😋
No food LOL
Haha driving out to eat mini donuts in a parking lot. The highlight of the summer! 🎉
I hope they shut this place down along with the other places like this Canada and USA lots of things we don't hear or see about that happen sadly . These animals in all of these places deserve to be in ocean or wild yes things happen in ocean and wild I agree but I feel they are better out there then being In small tanks or enclosures being mistreated in harsh environments
Marineland should be shut down for good. Let the animals live out the rest of their lives in a safe environment bc they all deserve it before more animals die
It's not possible to return them to the wild.
That empty splash pad cost 7 million to build😂
Christ
I'm a local. I went there twice as a kid (both times it was on a school trip) and even then, before I knew about all the animal cruelty, I didn't think it was anything terribly special. Haven't been since and it baffles me how they have managed to stay open for the last 2 decades. It's long past time to do what my mom and I as well as many other locals have been saying for years: sell the place to an amusement park company who will ditch the animals and add more rides!
Maybe they should turn this place into a Six Flags Park! They don’t need animals, they need more rides! SkyScreamer is my favorite.
Plus it could be a good rival to Canada’s Wonderland.
Cedar Fair bought out Six Flags. LOL😂
They wont build another park in between 2 parks they own to compete with each other in that close proximity
@@carlosribeiro3821Which is a real shame because Canada's Wonderland desperately needs competition
This industry has No future . Close it already.
Then how do you fund the care of the animals that remain at the park?
@@seanwebb605 Industry here means, they use animals as entertainment. It certainly involves animal abuses. That industry has no future. They can use that place for animal sanctuary. Many zoos , aquariums around the world are moving that way.
How can it be called MarineLand without rides and animals? 🤔
cause marineland sucks canadas wonderland is the place to go screw marineland
@@zachguest8565 🎵Everyone hates MarineLand!🎵
If there is no rides or animals then what is there?
Oh wow! An amusement park without rides! Sounds so much fun. Seriously though, how his this place still operating?
Whats the point of keeping it open if there’s literally nothing to do there 💀
my opinion is , no zoos should exist, wild animals need to be in their natural habitat.
Too smelly
that's the smell of dead animal decaying
You're thinking of Wild Water Kingdom
Global news, define ‘without’ and ‘animal’, please.
I’ve never been to Marine Land and I’ve always wanted to go, however after seeing the news one day, specifically: Ottawa, 6/10/19: Canada made history today with the passing of Bill S-203: Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act. Bill S-203 will prohibit breeding, imports, exports and live captures of whales, dolphins and porpoises across Canada, building on Ontario’s Bill 80, which was passed on May 28, 2015. Now I don’t want to help fund this illegal operation!
Attractions like Marineland are from another age. I`m no Liberal hippy and even I can see that. Shut it down.
I've never been there; however, according to the tv I thought everyone loves marineland.
Rebrand, keep the rides and scrap the enclosures? Seems pretty simple
Go to Tadoussac Quebec and see the belugas in their natural habitat. You can even see the babies from the shoreline!
Just close the place already… 🤦♂️
Hope Marineland gets revived. Amazing memories for so many
And that’s the way it should be. Keeping animals in captivity for human entertainment is wrong and I immoral
Shut it down now!
This is crazy. The Ontario Science Center was closed for a roof that could have been fixed easily but this privately owed business is being allowed to remain open after mistreating animals? So shady. Where is the government on this now?
With no rides or animals..... What is the point?
As far as closing it.... Unfortunately, you can't release those animals back into the wild...
No no no !do not allow this 😢😢😢
Who’s going to be in charge of the animals - ? Who’s in control now ? And when does the government / court decide ? Thank you for notifying the public.
It's under new management. They said the park is under transition. I did see where they said this was the last season but only heard it once. With so little to see & no rides they should have just left it closed until they did whatever is going to happen to the park. Splash pads can be found all over.
Um what the heck is the point of the place without the rides or animals... Lol
ill always have deep nostalgia for the Marineland commercials every summer... as a kid i got so excited whenever the commercial aired because i knew it signaled the start of summer 😭. Sad to see how poorly the animals were treated
At this point you’re better off building one jumbo-sized Costco if you’ve taken out all of the joy and awesomeness of what makes the park so fun to go to. I might be a weirdo but I actually really liked going to Marineland as a kid back in the early 2010s and found the experience to be pretty memorable but now the place is on life support.
This is murder!
Use to go here on the 90s as a kid a lot. Place really turned into a dump , close the park. Either sell the land or make a water park or something like that
What do you mean you don't know what happened to the bears😮😮!!
Disney can build indoor theme park for us .
This is a great place but the way animals are treated is questionable. I remember seeing the 🐻 all crowded in the swimming pool below hiding in the shade thinking they look so sad and what they must be thinking. Are they hungry or too hot so that's why they're hiding in the shaded corner and is it normal for bears to always be in a pool of water? It seems they're overcrowded as well and need alot more space. What they should do is make it a theme park with rides and some animals and whales treated properly. Maybe rotate the animals to larger space to roam in a nature park during the off season. The 🐻 were especially sad.
No point keeping it around everything's being taken down and out only thing left are the animals
the only fish that should be on display are small aquarium type fish ..if they are properly cared for
I don't think they can even keep a gold fish alive.....
Close this down now animal abuse
Then find a home for the Marine mammals left there who still need to be cared for, you cannot rehabilitate them, as proof shows, marine mammals who get rehabilitated after millions of dollars and effort are later found dead in the wild. That is also animal cruelty.
Nothing to see here. Just close it.
Why that many Beluga's I bet they were sold from near Churchil or Norway. They have companies that specialize in un scarred specimens for display racket.
I don't have a boat.
If only there was a way to see exotic sea animals without having an expensive boat...
then whats the point
🤔 The people who charged Marineland with animal cruelty should be monitoring every frigging move they make with the remaining animals, right?!
Now its just called "land" lol
Make them release the animals.
It's not possible.
@@seanwebb605stop spreading misinformation!!
@@CATSWITHKYLA That's nonsense. Be honest. Be fair. be reasonable. By all means advocate for the funds to do the work and research to make it possible to rehabilitate these animals and make it possible to release them into the wild. Don't just be blind to reality. Good people want these animals to have a happy ending. It won't come by wishful thinking or attacking others who could be allies to the cause. Don't be such a child.
@@seanwebb605 I am not being a child. For you to say that releasing them is not possible is just not true. As I mentioned to you in another comment there are Sanctuaries in the ocean already. They were planning last year to bring Lolita home to a sanctuary in the San Juan Islands in Washington state but she died in that tiny pool in Miami before that happened. The reality of the situation is that they don't belong in tanks and these places don't want to even try because they are making money off them and if one survives and does well with release then they won't be able to say that it's not a good idea to release them because they won't survive.
@@CATSWITHKYLA
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Why freeing Willy was the wrong thing to do
By Catherine Brahic
28 April 2009
New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.
Keiko, star of Free Willy, in playful mood
(Image: Sam Barcroft/Rex Features)
Keiko, star of Free Willy, in playful mood
Willy was never really free. The killer whale star of the Hollywood movie Free Willy had to be cared for by humans even after he was released and he never successfully integrated with his wild kin. Researchers now say attempts to return him to the wild were misguided.
“We believe the best option for [Willy] was the open pen he had in Norway, with care from his trainers,” says Malene Simon of the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, who participated in efforts to reintegrate the cetacean in the wild and is lead author of the study. “He could swim as much as he wanted to, had plenty of frozen herring - which he was very fond of - and the people that he was attached to kept him active.”
The killer whale, whose real name was Keiko, died in December 2003, at about 26 years old. Despite efforts to integrate him with wild killer whales in Iceland towards the end of his life, he proved unable to interact with them or find food.
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“While we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal,” the researchers say in the paper, “the survival and well-being of the animal may be severely impacted in doing so.” The only cetaceans that have successfully been returned to the wild have been young and only kept in captivity for short periods.
The team’s comments contradict those made by members of the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation, who declared in 2003 that his case had challenged the perception that whales cannot be returned to the wild. But Simon’s account of Keiko’s last few years shows just how unsuccessful his release was.
I love nostalgia. But marine land is one thing from my childhood i want to see gone forever
They need to improve and update this place Seriously this place is very outdated
Great comments below! Animals should not be exploited. Now, if we could just get people to extend this courtesy to also stop eating animals. If not, we may as well be eating Dolphins.
I've tried dolphin. It's alright 😒
Close it down, and free Willy.
Free Willy didn't work. None of these whales and dolphins can be returned to the wild. There is one example of trying and it ended badly after a great deal of time, effort and money.
What a dump
I can understand the animals but why shut down the rides?
How did no one force this place to close yet? There is now nothing to do except for watch a few poor belugas swim around in a crowded tank. No food, no rides, no shows, no nothing. I don't care if this place has new owners, I don't care if anyone is gonna try and flip this place around into something different. It will forever have a bad reputation and yeah even if they do try to make improvements, it will just be too late to win anyone back. I feel bad for any tourists who come to see Niagara Falls and then end up wondering into this abysmal "theme park."
No rides and no animals......so basically it is like walking down a random street with the occasional food stand.
Edit oh wait restaurant also closed.....so basically is like walking down a street.
These days everything is scaled down in Canada, starting with the standard of living. The only exception are taxes.
Okay lets be real, Trudeau has scaled down a lot of standards in Canada, however we can't blame him for what's happening at Marineland. Marineland has been widely criticized for years.
They opened this place not only later than usual, but also with only the Beluga exhibits, no dolphin show but dolphins being shown regardless, and the Arctic Splash water park........but leave everything else closed?
Why open this place at all when only those three attractions are offered? What is going on with this place?
They should just close down. Renovate to become a giant water park and reopen.
The only two good things there are the drop tower and the roller coaster
We also don't have freak shows, or slave fights or public executions anymore either. The world of humans moves on, it always has and it always will right up until we strip mine and pollute ourselves into extinction.
I would have thought with all the tourism that they could have rebranded and converted to pretty much all rides like a Canada’s Wonderland type and had success.
everyone loves marine land! Just not the dolphins and whales
and bears
There's a place I know in Ontario
That should have been shut down long ago
How can it b marine land without the marine mammals? Can they replace them with se water?
Well actually Niagara Falls is a pretty big attraction. Millions of people go to watch the water fall off the cliff.
Basically, it's a park with nothing to do. They might as well just shut it down forever.
Turn it into a water park, with aquariums around the property, get the rides going and better. Put up a bandshell and have summer concerts. Tourists would still come.
Sad
Better to go to Centreville. It’s charming little place that’s perfects for kids and adults. Beautiful parkland in a lovely island setting.
Not enough ferries running to handle demand.
Hopefully all the animal exhibits will go with the animals finding the proper homes and that the new owners focus on gardens, picnic areas, rides and water park instead.
We jail animals for our entertainment, we are the worst
Better be half price then.
I think it’s $5
I'm surprised it's even still open. SMDH.
Seriously, what is there to do in there then?
Loved this place as a kid.
Dragon Mountain was awesome in the 1990’s when it was fast!
Make it virtual .....
Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦 where good things go to die!
What have you done for Canada?
@@bobwoods1302 I voted conservative😂 that’s what I did for Canada 🇨🇦 your welcome 🙏
There are better places to go, Toronto Zoo for the animals and Canada’s Wonderland for rides. Many theme park enthusiasts rank Marineland as the worst theme park in North America.
The Manitoba government used to maybe still ok's the export of these from near Churchill river and other areas sold like cattle.
@@CoreySchlueter Toronto zoo I thought the whole country was a zoo damn I must have been missing out 😂( just playin)
What is it then anymore if there’s no rides no restaurant pretty much next to no animals and I’m sure you still have to pay to get in
The park has new owners so it will be interesting to see how things change.
They mistreat the animals, why are they still open?