SeaWorld San Antonio’s orca Takara swims with her new calf – the last to be born at a SeaWorld park – in San Antonio, Texas, on April 19. SeaWorld announced last year it was ending its breeding programme for killer whales. Photo: SeaWorld/Handout via Reuters
SeaWorld San Antonio’s orca Takara swims with her new calf – the last to be born at a SeaWorld park – in San Antonio, Texas, on April 19. SeaWorld announced last year it was ending its breeding programme for killer whales. Photo: SeaWorld/Handout via Reuters
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Chinese marine park’s orca-breeding programme is indefensible

Keith Guo says Chimelong Ocean Kingdom’s new breeding programme for killer whales is simply out of step with public sentiment that increasingly finds such captivity cruel

Keith Guo

Updated: 12:41pm, 17 May, 2017

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SeaWorld San Antonio’s orca Takara swims with her new calf – the last to be born at a SeaWorld park – in San Antonio, Texas, on April 19. SeaWorld announced last year it was ending its breeding programme for killer whales. Photo: SeaWorld/Handout via Reuters
SeaWorld San Antonio’s orca Takara swims with her new calf – the last to be born at a SeaWorld park – in San Antonio, Texas, on April 19. SeaWorld announced last year it was ending its breeding programme for killer whales. Photo: SeaWorld/Handout via Reuters
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