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Troubled Miami Seaquarium ordered to close after high-profile animal deaths

Miami-Dade commission serves eviction papers to owners following scathing federal reports into care of marine mammals

The Guardian - US · Mar 7, 2024

Is a reckoning finally arriving for Miami’s troubled Seaquarium?

The once-exalted attraction is threatened by financial troubles, animal rights activists and federal and local authorities

The Guardian - US · Feb 11, 2024

Manatees Romeo and Juliet freed from Florida theme park following campaign

The 67- and 61-year-old sea cows have been at the Miami Seaquarium since 1956 and will be moved to a sanctuary

The Guardian - US · Dec 1, 2023

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Lolita, oldest orca held in captivity, dies before chance to return to the ocean

After years of pressure to set the Miami Seaquarium orca free, Lolita was scheduled to spend her final days in her natural habitat sometime next year. On Friday, she died of a "renal condition."

WEKU · Aug 19, 2023

Lolita the orca dies after spending more than half a century in captivity

In February, the Seaquarium announced its plans to release the killer whale back into the ocean

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2023

Lolita the whale may someday return to wild, Miami park says, but timeline uncertain

Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare an orca whale named Lolita for a possible return to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound

The Independent UK · May 24, 2023

Colts owner Jim Irsay helps secure Lolita the whale’s exit from captivity after more than five decades

The Miami Seaquarium is returning Lolita to its home waters in the Pacific Northwest

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2023

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Agreement in place to return Lolita the orca to the Pacific

An plan is in place to return Lolita, an orca that has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years, to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2023

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