Activists in court over Orca Morgan’s move to Tenerife

Animal rights activists are in court on Wednesday in an effort to prevent an orca known as Morgan being moved to an amusement park on the island of Tenerife.


They want the animal, found last year in a severely weakened state in the Wadden Sea, to be returned to the wild.
Since being rescued, Morgan has been kept in the Dolfinarium in Harderwijk and is now scheduled to move to the Spanish island, where she will be with other orcas.
But activists say not enough has been done to find her family, and argue that orcas suffer severe stress when kept in small tanks. They also say the experts consulted by the Dolfinarium are not experts in orcas.

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