Female
12-year-old beluga whales Little Grey and Little White arrive at Klettsvik Bay
AFP in
Reykjavik
Thu 20
Jun 2019 00.21 BST
Two
beluga whales from a Shanghai aquarium have arrived in Iceland to
live out their days in a unique marine sanctuary that conservationists hope
will become a model for rehoming 3,000 of the creatures currently in captivity.
Little
Grey and Little White, two 12-year-old female belugas, left behind their
previous lives entertaining visitors at the Changfeng Ocean World and were
flown across the globe in specially tailored containers.
The
whales, which each weigh about 900kg and are four metres long, will continue
their epic journey by truck and ferry to the sanctuary at Klettsvik Bay at
Heimaey, one of the Westman Islands off the south coast of Iceland.
The
conservation charity Sea Life
Trust, which has been at the forefront of the project, said the bay
is the world’s first open water beluga sanctuary and had been selected to
“provide a more natural sub-Arctic environment and wilder habitat for these
amazing whales to call home”.
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