<p>The 30 beluga whales at Marineland Canada — including four now at Shedd Aquarium — were at “imminent risk” of being euthanized, a longtime adviser and lawyer for the shuttered aquatic park told the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday.</p><p>“The bottom line is we have expended, since the beginning of COVID, all of our available reserves of funds to keep these animals alive and rehoused,” said Andrew Burns, speaking from Toronto.</p><p>Burns said no more whales are scheduled to leave Marineland this week, but that the goal is to remove them all by Aug. 31.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-950000" name="image-950000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/820a436/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5984x3358+0+315/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc6%2F39%2F502bf9ee4ac5ba163d428a0ba10c%2F7t3a0037.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d0aa138/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5984x3358+0+315/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc6%2F39%2F502bf9ee4ac5ba163d428a0ba10c%2F7t3a0037.jpg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0a9ab6f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5984x3358+0+315/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc6%2F39%2F502bf9ee4ac5ba163d428a0ba10c%2F7t3a0037.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Belugas swimming at the shuttered Marineland Canada before a rescue operation began earlier this month. Six have since been moved out of the facility." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0a9ab6f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5984x3358+0+315/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc6%2F39%2F502bf9ee4ac5ba163d428a0ba10c%2F7t3a0037.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f555059/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5984x3358+0+315/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc6%2F39%2F502bf9ee4ac5ba163d428a0ba10c%2F7t3a0037.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0a9ab6f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5984x3358+0+315/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc6%2F39%2F502bf9ee4ac5ba163d428a0ba10c%2F7t3a0037.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The belugas swim at Marineland Canada before the rescue operation began.