{"id":15897,"date":"2013-01-16T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:31:55","slug":"marineland-environment-ministry-launches-probe-into-mass-animal-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/marineland-environment-ministry-launches-probe-into-mass-animal-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland: Environment ministry launches probe into mass animal graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marineland story keeps going on and on. Over the holidays, the Ministry of the Environment investigated the mass animal graves that Marineland has on their property. I&#8217;ve heard about these before, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen mention of them in mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/12\/20\/marineland_environment_ministry_launches_probe_into_mass_animal_graves.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The provincial Environment Ministry is poised this week for a sweeping inspection of Marineland\u2019s mass graves of animals \u2014 graves it had no idea existed because the park has no permits.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Falls tourist attraction has dug pits for decades to dispose of its animals, using heavy machinery to cover them up, according to former staffers.<\/p>\n<p>There are four mass graves, two of them containing \u201cmore than 1,000 animals,\u201d said Marineland\u2019s former land animal supervisor Jim Hammond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can also read about it here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welland Tribune &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/2012\/12\/20\/animal-graves-at-marineland-investigated\">Marineland graves under inspection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Niagara Falls Review &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/12\/21\/marineland-test-results-expected-mid-january\">Marineland test results expected mid-January<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marineland story keeps going on and on. Over the holidays, the Ministry of the Environment investigated the mass animal graves that Marineland has on their property. I&#8217;ve heard about these before, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen mention of them in mainstream media. From the Toronto Star: The provincial Environment Ministry is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[8609,7998,8610,67,8607,8608,41,1139,960,1989,552],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-heavy-machinery","tag-jim-hammond","tag-mainstream-media","tag-marineland","tag-mass-graves","tag-ministry-of-the-environment","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-toronto-star","tag-tourist-attraction","tag-welland-tribune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}