{"id":15201685,"date":"2026-07-08T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/u-s-government-approves-emergency-rescue-of-belugas-from-marineland-in-niagara-falls-ont\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:33:52","slug":"u-s-government-approves-emergency-rescue-of-belugas-from-marineland-in-niagara-falls-ont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/u-s-government-approves-emergency-rescue-of-belugas-from-marineland-in-niagara-falls-ont\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. government approves emergency rescue of belugas from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/1.7640606,1758576219000\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4096%2C2304%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29\" alt=\"drone of belugas\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\" CBC News flew a drone over Marineland in August and observed staff feeding and interacting with belugas and dolphins. \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has formally approved an emergency rescue of most of the beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., to aquariums in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/marineland-beluga-whales-rescue-emergency-9.7262853?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; Canada &#8211; Hamilton &#8211; cbc-ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has formally approved an emergency rescue of most of the beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., to aquariums in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15201687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15201685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamilton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-300x169.avif",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-510x349.avif",510,349,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-160x160.avif",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-24x24.avif",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-48x48.avif",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-96x96.avif",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15201685-default-300x300.avif",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hamilton<\/a>","tag_info":"Hamilton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15201685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201686,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201685\/revisions\/15201686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15201687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15201685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15201685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15201685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}