Overview
- In an open letter, Marineland urged the French government to act on relocating two orcas and twelve dolphins from its closed Antibes facility.
- The park asked France to seek Spanish acceptance of the two orcas at Loro Parque in Tenerife under an emergency exception after an earlier refusal.
- Spain approved the transfer of eight dolphins to Selwo in Málaga in September, but Marineland says French authorization has not yet been issued.
- A separate request to move four dolphins to Oceanogràfic de València is pending, and the park says it does not know if France has forwarded the file for review.
- The relocation push follows France’s 2021 law ending cetacean shows from December 2026, and the new ecology minister, Monique Barbut, has not commented on the case.