Tag: Beluga whales

• Tuesday, August 11th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Two Beluga whales returned to the ocean after ten years in Russia and China

  

  Two beluga whales taken from the sea nearly ten years ago are being returned to the ocean. Little Grey and Little White are now being looked after at the world's first open water sanctuary for belugas in Iceland.

• Sunday, July 7th 2019 - 11:41 UTC

  Russia claims releases from “whale prison” have been successful: Greenpeace and scientists criticize

  

  Russian research scientists defended the way they released eight whales back into the wild last week and said on Thursday they would release scores more of the captive animals in the same way despite anger from environmental groups.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 05:36 UTC

  Russia agrees to free orca and belugas held in “whale jails”

  

  Russian officials said on Monday they will work towards freeing all orca and beluga whales from a notorious facility in the east of the country, after a visit by US-based marine mammal advocates.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 05:54 UTC

  Naked Russian woman scientist dances in Arctic waters with Beluga whales

  Braving subzero temperatures and underwater conditions, Natalia Avseenko, 36 threw away her inhibitions and her clothes to dive in with the Arctic Beluga whales, in an extremely interesting yet controversial experiment, trying to test the theory that the Beluga whales don’t like to be touched like diving suits, for example.