{"id":129237,"date":"2025-11-12T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129237\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:12:13","slug":"another-humpback-whale-found-dead-in-b-c-waters-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129237\/","title":{"rendered":"Another humpback whale found dead in B.C. waters &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/humpback-whale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">humpback whale<\/a> has been found dead in B.C. waters, the second in as many weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The whale was found on Friday near Lasqueti Island, near Texada Island.<\/p>\n<p>It has been identified as a 21-year-old known as Polyphemus and was known to migrate to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the whale\u2019s death is not yet known, but experts say more frequent reporting doesn\u2019t necessarily mean deaths are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really having to re-educate people who are on the water, and the coastal citizens that these whales exist here, this is humpback whale habitat and that we have to be aware of them and figure out ways to coexist,\u201d Caitlin Birdsall with the Marine Education and Research Society said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Humpback whale freed from rope off coast of Nanaimo'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HUMPBACK_WHALE_thumbnail_1280x720.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:44<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHumpback whale freed from rope off coast of Nanaimo\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Marine Education and Research Society is urging boaters to take its free <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.mersociety.org\/courses\/whale-safe-boating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Whale Safe Boating course<\/a>, which teaches people how to reduce vessel disturbance and collision risks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Science and Tech<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another humpback whale has been found dead in B.C. waters, the second in as many weeks. The whale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[242,20030,81149,85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-129237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-humpback-whale","10":"tag-humpback-whale-death","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}