{"id":45097,"date":"2025-09-26T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45097\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:08:09","slug":"whale-dies-after-washing-ashore-on-victorian-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45097\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale dies after washing ashore on Victorian beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeff dead juvenile humpback measuring eight metres has closed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/victoria\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Victorian\">Victorian<\/a> beach until further notice due to fears the carcass could attract sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The whale washed up at Sandy Point Beach \ufeffin the state&#8217;s Gippsland region yesterday morning, a few hundred metres from the local surf lifesaving club.<\/p>\n<p>The mammal is decomposing with bites along its tail after being partially eaten by sharks in the water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7940ad07-b9eb-40e6-99e6-38fd31567091.jpeg\"   alt=\"A&#xFEFF; dead juvenile humpback measuring eight metres has closed a Victorian beach until further notice due to fears the carcass could attract sharks. The whale washed up at Sandy Point Beach &#xFEFF;in the state's Gippsland region yesterday morning, a few hundred metres from the local surf life saving club.\"\/>The whale washed up at Sandy Point Beach \ufeffin the state&#8217;s Gippsland region yesterday morning, a few hundred metres from the local surf life saving club. (DEECA)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The beach has been closed to prevent possible human health impacts as the whale decomposes,&#8221; the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whales are protected under the Wildlife Act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an offence for people or their dogs to be within 300 metres of a whale, whether it is dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an offence to interfere with, take or be in possession of parts of a dead whale.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Point Beach is expected to closed until Monday.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeff dead juvenile humpback measuring eight metres has closed a Victorian beach until further notice due to fears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-45097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45097","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=45097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}