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After weeks of receiving care at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society, harbour seal Bella is finally ready to be released back into the wild. Global’s Safeeya Pirani sees how the big day unfolds.

Safeeya Pirani visits the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society to learn how the team provides care to harbour seal pups and what it takes to help nurse them back to health.

The Vancouver Aquarium is opening a new permanent exhibit dedicated to axolotls, one of the world’s most unique amphibians. The immersive gallery features multiple habitats, interactive displays and educational content focused on biology, culture and conservation. The exhibit also highlights the need to protect the axolotl’s fragile natural habitat in Mexico.

Global’s Safeeya Pirani visits the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society to see how growing harbour seals Fritzy and Bella are doing in their rehabilitation journey, and how they are getting closer to being released back into the wild.

Marineland has proposed sending its remaining whales and dolphins to U.S. institutions, including SeaWorld and the Georgia, Shedd, and Mystic aquariums. The park has set a deadline for federal export permits, warning it will otherwise euthanize the animals. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson is reviewing the applications, while the animals remain under care at the Niagara...

An EasyPark customer paid for parking at the Vancouver Aquarium only to be charged the summer rate. He was stonewalled by the company and wonders how many others were overcharged that day. EasyPark admits there was a “brief technical delay.” Anne Drewa reports for Consumer Matters.

The situation for animals at Marineland has taken another turn as the amusement park works to re-home its remaining marine mammals. After being denied an export permit for its belugas to an aquarium in China, Marineland now says its only options are to relocate the whales or euthanize them due to a lack of resources....

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he was “disappointed” on Wednesday after the federal government wouldn’t sign off on a proposal that would send 30 beluga whales in captivity at Marineland to China. He said he was “encouraging the federal government to allow (Ontario) to make sure these whales survive in a really great atmosphere or...

They say it takes two to tango, but the Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana is trying to figure out how a baby swell shark was born in a tank holding two females that hadn’t seen a male in years. Heidi Petracek reports on the two possible explanations for this “virgin birth,” and what will confirm how...

A lonely sunfish is regaining its appetite after workers at a Japanese aquarium stuck paper cutouts of visitors to its tank. Staff say they noticed the creature seemed lonely after the aquarium temporarily shut down for rennovations, but it perked up once they put up the pictures of people’s faces and hung clothing to make...

There has been a complicated rescue operation off the B.C. coast to save another animal that had become entangled in fishing gear. Kylie Stanton has more on what needed to be done to help a sea lion that may have been unable to eat for months.

A giant baby king penguin in Australia is making an impression on the internet and drawing hundreds of visitors to a popular Australia aquarium. Chocolate-brown and fluffy, the nine-month-old chick named Pesto weighs 23.5 kilograms — more than twice the combined weight of his parents. Pesto is the largest chick Sea Life Melbourne has ever...

Vancouver Aquarium Executive Director Clint Wright discusses how the iconic attraction is preparing for its grand reopening.

BC Conservation Officers made an alarming discovery on Saturday. A woman in Terrace found invasive Zebra mussels in her aquarium. Conservation Officers south of the border first alerted authorities in Canada that shipments of moss balls, decorative plants that are often used in aquariums and ponds, were found contaminated with an invasive species of mussel.

The Vancouver Aquarium’s head veterinarian has made an unusual ‘house call’ off the west coast of Vancouver Island, to treat a whale with an infection. Linda Aylesworth reports

Facing bankruptcy because of the pandemic, the Vancouver Aquarium has been sold to private interests based in the United States. Herschend Family Entertainment owns the Harlem Globetrotters, Dollywood, two aquariums, and now, a Vancouver landmark. Ted Chernecki reports.

Fri, Jan 9 – There’s a Copper Rockfish at the Vancouver Aquarium that doesn’t quite look like the others. Martin Haulena tells Global News about him and why he was bullied by the other fish.

March 21: Animal cruelty charges have been laid against Riverfront Aquariums, and its current and former owners. Gary Bobrovitz reports.

Wed, Apr 6: A California sea lion has been rescued from Salt Spring Island and is now being treated at the Vancouver Aquarium Mammal Rescue Centre.

Airbnb’s latest contest is offering winners the chance to spend one night submerged inside a shark tank at the Aquarium de Paris.