{"id":411820,"date":"2026-05-04T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411820\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:49:07","slug":"live-venomous-sea-snake-washes-ashore-at-ohope-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411820\/","title":{"rendered":"Live venomous sea snake washes ashore at \u014chope Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">She said New Zealand had no recorded cases of anyone being bitten by a sea snake.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" DoC reminds the public to keep their distance from any sea snakes found on local beaches. Photo \/ DoC\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> DoC reminds the public to keep their distance from any sea snakes found on local beaches. Photo \/ DoC<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Middlemiss said yellow-bellied sea snakes spent their entire lives at sea, so finding one on the beach usually meant it was unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">She said those that washed ashore were often suspected to have suffered from hypothermia due to colder sea temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Sea snakes are protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, making it illegal to kill, harass, or possess them or any part of them without a permit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">DoC asked anyone who encountered a sea snake to keep themselves and their pets well away and call 0800 DOC HOT immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Zoe Blake is a multimedia journalist at the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said New Zealand had no recorded cases of anyone being bitten by a sea snake. DoC reminds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27605,58463,1975,7972,2883,4960,1362,1304,111,139,69,8205,147,3008,15236,30645,9537,3590,170405,406,11587],"class_list":["post-411820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-appearance","tag-ashore","tag-at","tag-beach","tag-hope","tag-live","tag-made","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rare","tag-science","tag-sea","tag-snake","tag-unexpected","tag-venomous","tag-visitor","tag-washes","tag-wildlife","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411820","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=411820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}