{"id":868820,"date":"2026-08-26T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868820\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:08:16","slug":"wildlife-authorities-respond-after-humpback-whale-beached-in-perths-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868820\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife authorities respond after humpback whale beached in Perth’s south"},"content":{"rendered":"

A humpback whale has become beached on a sand bank in shallow water at Port Kennedy in Perth’s southern suburbs.<\/p>\n

The Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) staff are at the scene and liaising with vets to “determine the most appropriate course of action”.<\/p>\n

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The humpback whale stranded itself in shallow waters in the Port Kennedy marine park. (Facebook: Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia)<\/p>\n

Port Kennedy beach is closed, and members of the public are being asked to stay away from the area to avoid causing stress to the whale.<\/p>\n

The department also said the whale was likely to attract sharks to the area.<\/p>\n

Incident controller Benson Todd said veterinarians were assessing the animal.<\/p>\n

“The team from Perth Zoo have arrived \u2026 they’ll undertake an assessment and that’ll help guide our next steps,” he told 102.5 ABC Perth.<\/p>\n

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Veterinarians from Perth Zoo will assess the whale.\u00a0 (Supplied: Danielle Barrett\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Mr Benson said the whale, which is around nine metres in length, did not look well.<\/p>\n

“It’s quite compromised,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It does have quite a bit of growth over it, which tells me it’s perhaps not in the best condition.”<\/p>\n

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Onlookers have gathered at the scene of the beaching.\u00a0 (ABC News: Blake Kagi)<\/p>\n

He said the incident was drawing a crowd and urged people to be respectful when in the area.<\/p>\n

“We’ve pulled the crowd back, a little bit away from the whale just so everyone is safe and also the whale’s not under any extra stress.”<\/p>\n

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The whale has attracted a crowd.\u00a0 (Supplied: Danielle Barrett\u00a0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A humpback whale has become beached on a sand bank in shallow water at Port Kennedy in Perth’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,167975,9333,18692,86,437567,128,45,38810,338],"class_list":["post-868820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beached-whale","tag-department-of-biodiversity-conservation-and-attractions","tag-humpback","tag-perth-news","tag-port-kennedy","tag-science","tag-wa-news","tag-whale","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868820","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=868820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}