{"id":638733,"date":"2026-10-23T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638733\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:46:11","slug":"doc-appeal-to-find-pair-behind-dead-and-missing-penguin-chicks-from-north-piha-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638733\/","title":{"rendered":"DoC appeal to find pair behind dead and missing penguin chicks from North Piha beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A penguin chick is dead and another is missing after what the Department of Conservation has described as an “intentional” disturbance of a nest at Auckland’s North Piha beach. Photo \/ Department of Conservation<\/p>\n

One penguin chick is dead and another missing from North Piha in Auckland, in what the Department of Conservation says was a deliberate attack.<\/p>\n

DoC says the nest of two koror\u0101\/little penguin chicks was \u201cintentionally disturbed\u201d around midday on Monday.<\/p>\n

\n A witness alleges a female in a red-and-black checkered top
\n and bottoms and a male in a yellow jacket were involved.\n <\/p>\n

Principal wildlife compliance officer Tapua Hori has called on the public, especially West Aucklanders, for information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need your help to bring justice for two koror\u0101\/little penguin chicks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[95,9526,6375,89,51,7972,4057,61693,67741,1389,690,116582,26034,22195,1866,71,6501,111,139,529,69,13792,27626,73759,312,147,61,6923,406],"class_list":["post-638733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-and","tag-another","tag-appeal","tag-attack","tag-auckland","tag-beach","tag-behind","tag-chick","tag-chicks","tag-conservation","tag-dead","tag-deliberate","tag-department","tag-doc","tag-find","tag-from","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-pair","tag-penguin","tag-piha","tag-says","tag-science","tag-to","tag-what","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638733","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=638733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}