About an hour later, two passers-by found her body on the beach, with a number of dingoes in the area.<\/p>\n
Initial findings indicated the bite marks found on her body were most likely inflicted after she had already died.<\/p>\n
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Ms James went for a swim on K\u2019gari Island and did not return. Credit: AAP![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4b5ef62c08533d161ffd2e4e9680ae3ffaf24518.jpg\")
The father of Piper James, who was found dead on K’gari, says she wouldn’t want dingoes culled. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n
\u201cThe autopsy has found physical evidence consistent with drowning and injuries consistent with dingo bites,\u201d a source told the ABC.<\/p>\n
Just weeks prior to Ms James\u2019 horrifying death, a separate video filmed by a UK tourist on the island has drawn widespread criticism online, with viewers describing it as reckless and \u201cinfuriating\u201d.<\/p>\n
The TikTok clip was uploaded by British traveller Millie McCarthy, who filmed herself walking alone through scrubland at dusk after leaving a fenced camping area.<\/p>\n
The four-minute video shows Ms McCarthy wandering away from camp carrying only a Smirnoff can and a Labubu camera purse, repeatedly acknowledging the risks as she ignores safety advice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is quite scary because I\u2019m about to leave the camp by myself,\u201d she told her camera.<\/p>\n
After passing a warning sign, she briefly considers taking a dingo safety stick before deciding against it.<\/p>\n
A dingo safety stick is a long pole provided to visitors on K\u2019gari Island that is used as a safety tool to keep dingoes at a distance. Visitors are encouraged to carry a dingo stick at all times when walking outside of fenced areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis feels very risky,\u201d continued Ms McCarthy as she walked through a gate marked with an image of a dingo and a warning to keep it closed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve not actually been outside the camp before. I\u2019m doing it,\u201d she said as she headed down a dirt track.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to. I have to see what it looks like.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a dingo comes up me \u2026 I did not bring a dingo stick as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
At one point, the tourist weighs up whether to run, despite warnings that doing so can attract dingoes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis could be risky because I have no idea how long this walk is. Wish me luck, and if I see a dingo, I have no idea what I\u2019ll do because I\u2019m by myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOoo it says don\u2019t leave the camp by yourself. S..t I\u2019m really scared now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The video later cuts to her arrival at the beach, where other visitors can be seen watching the sunset.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just run a bit. I was actually really s…tting myself but this is worth it, I fear,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently, if a dingo sees you running, they come after you. But this is worth it. I fear this is worth getting eaten by a dingo.\u201d<\/p>\n
The clip has since attracted more than 20,000 likes, with viewers sharply divided over her behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you travel to any country, you are expected to follow the rules. Especially in Australia, which is world-renowned for its dangerous wildlife. Those rules exist for a reason,\u201d one woman wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a reason for these rules,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople just don\u2019t listen,\u201d added a third.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurvival instinct of a grain of rice,\u201d a fourth commented.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the Queensland Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation confirmed the dingoes involved in Ms James\u2019 death would be \u201chumanely euthanised\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cRangers have closely monitored the pack of dingoes involved in the incident this week and have observed some aggressive behaviour,\u201d a departmental spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the initial autopsy findings, this pack\u2019s involvement in the incident, and observations since, this pack has been deemed an unacceptable public safety risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cQueensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) Rangers are currently implementing actions accordingly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no public safety risk during this process,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, Wide Bay District Inspector Paul Algie urged visitors to respect the island\u2019s wildlife.<\/p>\n
\u201cK\u2019gari is a wilderness area, dingoes are wild animals, and while they are very culturally and significant to the local First Nations people and to the people that live on the island, they are still wild animals and need to be treated as such,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI implore all people that visit K\u2019gari, which is a beautiful place, that you do not go near dingoes, that you do not feed dingoes and that you just leave them to live their life and you need to move around them accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A troubling social media video filmed on K\u2019gari has resurfaced weeks before a Canadian backpacker was found dead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-450957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}