The risky rescue of orcas and belugas from Russian ‘whale jail’
Since last fall, dozens of whales have been held captive in Russia’s so-called “whale jail” by companies who planned to sell them. Now, some of the world’s top marine biologists are meeting in Moscow to try to save nearly 100 whales.
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Post Series: Russia
- 1.After Chernobyl
- 2.Nearly 100 Captive Orcas and Belugas at Risk of Drowning, Freezing to Death | National Geographic
- 3.Invasion of the polar bears – BBC News
- 4.Russian archipelago Novaya Zemlya, Polar bear attacks
- 5.Polar bears invade Russian islands
- 6.Russian Arctic town struggles with polar bear ‘occupation’
- 7.See How They Track Polar Bears in Russia | National Geographic
- 8.Nearly 100 Captive Orcas and Belugas at Risk of Drowning, Freezing to Death | National Geographic
- 9.The risky rescue of orcas and belugas from Russian ‘whale jail’
- 10.Whale jail: 100+ orcas & belugas stuck in prison, may be sold to China ‘for entertainment’
- 11.Life in the Whale Jail
- 12.Inside a Russian fur farm – BBC News