In this Oct. 20, 2004 file photo, trainer Lynn Marcoux works with Naku, a beluga whale at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn. A proposal to import five whales to Connecticut has sparked a standoff between animal welfare groups and an aquarium that says the animals will contribute to its research. HARTFORD, CONN. -- A Connecticut aquarium has agreed to delay its acquisition of five beluga whales for research amid a lawsuit by an animal rights group trying to stop the delivery.
Friends of Animals, based in Darien, Connecticut, filed the lawsuit in September, saying the five belugas would be harmed by the trip from their current home in Canada and by being torn from long-term relationships with others of their species. "This is a great result for the belugas because it means that they won't be removed from their current situation and transported to Mystic until the court has the opportunity to determine whether the permit that the government issued complies with the law," Stephen Hernick, a lawyer for Friends of Animals, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
Aquarium officials say the permit is the first of its kind and will allow them to conduct noninvasive research that is vital to help boost endangered and depleted beluga whale populations. They have not said when the whales were originally scheduled for delivery.
And they want to transport another Elephant what is wrong with these people ! California wildfires more than likely ravaged our beloved elephants already there :/
Ctv has an agenda that's just my opinion
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