{"id":215805,"date":"2026-01-04T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:10:07","slug":"turtles-thought-stolen-from-cornwall-park-aviary-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215805\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles thought stolen from Cornwall Park aviary, Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>4 Jan, 2026 02:29 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A turtle takes a splash at Cornwall Park aviary, Hastings. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A number of turtles are missing from Cornwall Park aviary in Hastings, presumed stolen, after the wire around their enclosure was tampered with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said they had received a burglary report that suggested they had been stolen sometime between midnight Friday and 6am Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police are investigating the<br \/>\n         report, the spokesperson said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The 15 turtles at the aviary are red-eared slider turtles, which are classified as a pest and can cause harm to native ecosystems if released into the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">In 2023, the Cornwall Park aviary was reopened after an upgrade, with a new enclosure and \u201cbeach\u201d provided to the turtles for a more natural egg-laying area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 4 Jan, 2026 02:29 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,665,130375,56777,107008,71,5194,6501,111,43,139,4061,69,8143,57411,4736,130376,165,20110,72649,19658,102],"class_list":["post-215805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-around","tag-aviary","tag-cornwall","tag-enclosure","tag-from","tag-hastings","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-number","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-presumed","tag-stolen","tag-tampered","tag-their","tag-thought","tag-turtles","tag-wire","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}