Canadian belugas faced ‘imminent risk’ of death before emergency flight to Chicago, marine park lawyer says

The 30 beluga whales at Marineland Canada — including four now at Shedd Aquarium — were at “imminent risk” of being euthanized, a longtime advisor and lawyer for the shuttered aquatic park told the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday. “The bottom line is we have expended, since the beginning of COVID, all of our available reserves of funds to keep these animals alive and rehoused,” said Andrew Burns, speaking from Toronto, Canada. Burns said no more whales are scheduled to leave Marineland this week,…