From New York Times:
A Canadian marine park that closed last year wants to send its remaining 30 beluga whales to an aquarium in China. But Canada’s fisheries minister refused to issue an export permit because the animals would continue living in captivity.
Now, Marineland, a once popular tourist attraction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, that says it is on the brink of bankruptcy, has threatened to euthanize the whales if the government denied it an emergency cash infusion by Tuesday.