Spain’s Social Rights Minister, Ione Belarra announced during a recent press conference that as part of proposed changes to animal welfare laws, the country will be converting zoos and dolphinariums into recovery centres for native species. As Spain holds beluga whales which are non-native, how this will impact the public display industry is as yet unclear.
Greek captive dolphins bound for U.S. facility
In December 2024 Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida applied for permits to import five male bottlenose dolphins from Attica Zoological
