{"id":593396,"date":"2026-09-08T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593396\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:36:11","slug":"auckland-school-disappointed-after-car-damages-field-bird-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593396\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland school &#8216;disappointed&#8217; after car damages field, bird nests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A north Auckland high school says it is &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; after a car was driven onto its grounds, causing significant damage to the field and destroying bird nests.<\/p>\n<p>Whangapar\u0101oa College said in a post to Facebook a vehicle was driven onto the school grounds at around 10.25pm last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, the damage wasn&#8217;t just limited to the grounds. The vehicle was driven directly through an area where plovers were nesting, destroying eggs and impacting vulnerable newborn chicks,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/whangaparaoa-college-said-in-a-post-to-facebook-a-vehicle-wa-5X6IJVYDFZHZZNNYGIYW3BBFBY.png\" alt=\"Whangapar&#x101;oa College said in a post to Facebook a vehicle was driven onto the school grounds at around 10.25pm last Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Whangapar\u0101oa College said in a post to Facebook a vehicle was driven onto the school grounds at around 10.25pm last Friday. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The school said the incident was particularly frustrating because of the impact on local wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is deeply frustrating to see this kind of thoughtless behaviour on our campus. We are currently looking into this incident and gathering information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A north Auckland high school says it is &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; after a car was driven onto its grounds,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-593396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593396","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=593396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}