I think they know they effed up. I'm not sure what you want from them, normally these things would have been killed outright. They tried to set up a shark exhibit on short notice and it didn't work.
I don't want anything from them, I'm merely commenting how the idealistic animal worshipers who are probably vegan, tree-hugging, greenhouse gas-phobic types are too stupid to let a poor creature go into the wild because they are "uncomfortable". It just doesn't "feel" right.
I didn't see in the article how they "would have been killed outright" as you say. Maybe my cynicism is misguided and they all dig Ann Coulter. No big whoop.