{"id":665915,"date":"2026-10-26T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:02:13","slug":"burin-peninsula-residents-team-up-to-save-pilot-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665915\/","title":{"rendered":"Burin Peninsula Residents Team Up to Save Pilot Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pilot-whales-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Burin Peninsula Residents Team Up to Save Pilot Whales\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents on the Burin Peninsula pulled together to save two pilot whales that got stuck on the beach in Point May (via Matt Lamkin\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>A dramatic rescue played out on the Burin Peninsula on the weekend after two pilot whales became stranded on the beach at Point May.<\/p>\n<p>Residents came out in numbers to help the creatures, even employing a back hoe to dig a channel to get the stranded animals back into the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pilot-whale.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pilot-whale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-314475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of two pilot whales beached at Point May, October 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday, the whales were back in the water and had swum away.<\/p>\n<p>VOCM News has reached out to DFO for an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Residents on the Burin Peninsula pulled together to save two pilot whales that got stuck on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,222384,151325,222381,82,222383,222385,222382,222378,222379,222380,263],"class_list":["post-665915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}