Federal officials have approved an emergency import plan to relocate 28 beluga whales from the shuttered Canadian theme park Marineland to aquariums in the United States. The move is described as part of an international rescue effort coordinated through federal authorities, with the import approval issued earlier this month. The whales are expected to be transported from Canada to U.S. facilities under the emergency process, rather than through standard import pathways. Both reports state that the plan targets beluga whales currently housed at Marineland and that the recipient locations are aquariums across the United States. The two outlets characterize the operation as urgent and rescue-focused, reflecting the outcome of the federal approval and the international coordination involved. The reports do not detail the specific U.S. aquariums, timelines, or conditions in the provided text, but they consistently describe the number of whales, the source facility in Canada, and the purpose and approval of the emergency relocation.