Canada’s First Whale Sanctuary to Be Established in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia has approved Canada’s first seaside whale sanctuary, a milestone in marine animal welfare. Located in Port Hilford Bay, the sanctuary will serve as a permanent, natural refuge for beluga whales rescued from captivity.

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Ecology & Science

The project, led by The Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP), will transform a protected cove into a habitat roughly 100 times larger than the tanks at Marineland in Niagara Falls, where many belugas have spent years in captivity. In this environment, the whales will be able to swim freely and experience natural ocean features, such as tides, currents and seasonal changes. Although they will still receive human care and monitoring due to their long confinement, the whales will live in a space that resembles a wild, natural habitat.

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Nova Scotia

I can not stop feeling, that I am at the White Sea in the northern part of Russia. Mirror of blue water, islands and islets, bays and small bays. Clear water, birches along the shores. The difference becomes clear when you step out to the road. Good asphalt, bright yellow marking lines. What else strikes my eyes – everywhere ashore there are placed, as if by a landscape designer, dry tree sculptures, decorated with algae. I can not understand, why there are so many dry trees?

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Svetlana Murashkina & Andrey Bizyukin
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Travel & Trips

Where did you dive this summer? If a person is satisfied with the brief answer, “In Canada,” that means the person probably missed all his or her grade school geography lessons. Canada is a country of real contrasts. It is bath a densely inhabited strip of land along the US border with huge metropolitan centers such as Montreal and Toronto, where there are sky-scrapers and big businesses, as well as a vast country of wilderness territories in the north stretching out along the coastline.

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