{"id":223554,"date":"2026-01-08T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223554\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:11:09","slug":"fifty-three-pilot-whales-stranded-on-farewell-spit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223554\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-three pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-three pilot whales are stranded on Farewell Spit this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The pod of whales were spotted swimming in the shallows heading towards the sand spit earlier this afternoon, Project Jonah said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our local medics responded alongside Department of Conservation staff and boat and Manawhenua Ki Mohua but despite best efforts, 53 pilot whales have stranded across two sites on Farewell Spit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The marine mammal protection organisation said it welcomed help from volunteers keeping the whales cool until sunset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wetsuits are recommended as it is windy and exposed. If coming to help please bring your own supplies as it is an isolated location.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifty-three pilot whales are stranded on Farewell Spit this evening. The pod of whales were spotted swimming in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-223554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223554","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=223554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}