{"id":891075,"date":"2026-09-14T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891075\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:12:11","slug":"first-endangered-sea-lion-dies-from-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891075\/","title":{"rendered":"First endangered sea lion dies from bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia has recorded the first death of an endangered Australian sea lion from H5 bird flu, raising concerns for the species\u2019 already dwindling population.<\/p>\n<p>SA Environment Minister Emily Bourke said the sea lion had been found at Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island and had been recovering from a shark attack, which might have made it more susceptible to the virus (<a href=\"https:\/\/campaigns.schwartzmedia.com.au\/t\/i-l-vtlulg-ittijdkyhi-e\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Canberra Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Bourke warned that other parts of the world had seen a \u201cdevastating impact\u201d of bird flu on sea lions and seals. SA is home to about 85% of the country\u2019s sea lions, with the population already declining by roughly 2% every year (<a href=\"https:\/\/campaigns.schwartzmedia.com.au\/t\/i-l-vtlulg-ittijdkyhi-s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In some cases across the world, populations of seals affected by the disease have experienced reductions in pup numbers of up to 95% (<a href=\"https:\/\/campaigns.schwartzmedia.com.au\/t\/i-l-vtlulg-ittijdkyhi-g\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Canberra Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia has recorded the first death of an endangered Australian sea lion from H5 bird flu, raising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-891075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891075","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=891075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}