There was a crowd outside Marineland on Saturday, but those holding signs and gathered out front weren’t there to visit the theme park in Niagara Falls, Ont.
The 100 or so protesters standing at the roadside, as the park opened to visitors for the first time this season, were there to condemn Marineland for years of alleged animal abuse and remember Kiska, the last killer whale in captivity in Canada, who died there this past March.
“#RIPKISKA” read one of the signs.
In the years leading up to Kiska’s death, animal rights activists advocated for the whale’s release back into the wild.
The animal rights groups that organized the protest, Last Chance for Animals and UrgentSea, played footage of
