{"id":410346,"date":"2026-05-03T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:56:08","slug":"young-orca-found-dead-on-shores-of-orewa-beach-in-aucklands-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410346\/","title":{"rendered":"Young orca found dead on shores of \u014crewa Beach in Auckland\u2019s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI went in to assist them, but sadly, it was already dead by the time we reached it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c[It was] truly heartbreaking to witness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Cordebar contacted the Department of Conservation (DoC) straight away to report the stranding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\"> The incident has already gained  traction with a flurry of people coming  forward on social media to express their condolences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Project Jonah said it was aware of the death but was not involved as the orca had already died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A Conservation Department ranger was at the scene, the Project Jonah spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">DoC has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/rare-whale-stranded-in-aucklands-waitemata-harbour-saved-volunteers-solo-actions-seen-as-heroic\/VWEHWMQ3KBHWFCWN2EG2L5O6LE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/rare-whale-stranded-in-aucklands-waitemata-harbour-saved-volunteers-solo-actions-seen-as-heroic\/VWEHWMQ3KBHWFCWN2EG2L5O6LE\/\">In March, a rare Shepherd\u2019s beaked whale was freed after being stranded by St Heliers Bay in Auckland,<\/a> before it beached and died a day later near Hobsonville\u2019s Scott Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI went in to assist them, but sadly, it was already dead by the time we reached it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3952,7972,67833,690,6179,2245,1874,78,1304,111,139,529,69,1118,90,5533,43923,147,84484,1961,19873,406,4741],"class_list":["post-410346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-aucklands","tag-beach","tag-calf","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-early","tag-found","tag-in","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-orca","tag-rewa","tag-science","tag-shores","tag-this","tag-washed","tag-wildlife","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410346","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=410346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}