Free Bella: The fight to release a beluga whale from a South Korean mega mall’s aquarium

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Seoul, South Korea CNN — A barren tank with concrete walls and artificial rocks, housed on the lower floors of a South Korean mega mall, has been home to a female beluga whale for close to a decade. The whale was believed to be around two years old when she was captured by boats in Russian waters in 2013 and sold to the Lotte World Aquarium – the largest in Seoul, run by one of South Korea’s richest and largest conglomerates. She was named Bella. With two male belugas, Belli and Bellu, along with other polar animals like penguins and...