{"id":417054,"date":"2026-02-10T00:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:41:07","slug":"two-dead-dolphins-found-washed-up-on-pakefield-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417054\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead dolphins found washed up on Pakefield beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dog walker Steve Borrett discovered the common dolphins on Friday on Pakefield beach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They appeared unharmed apart from some damage which appeared to be from being washed ashore,&#8221; he explained.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>One of the dolphins on Pakefield beach (Image: Steve Borrett)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added: &#8220;It was poor weather and rough seas.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In February last year, a dolphin was found dead on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/24916489.dead-dolphin-found-washed-beach-kessingland\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kessingland beach<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the time, Carl Chapman of Wildlife Tours &amp; Education, suggested several reasons as to why they died.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>They dolphins were found on Friday (Image: Steve Borrett)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This included disease, being hit by a sea-going vessel, being caught in fishing nets or even drowning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said that more dolphins are being seen on the Norfolk and Suffolk shores due to the sea being warmed by climate change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was revealed that 27 dolphins washed up on the Cornish coast in January this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cornwall Wildlife Trust confirmed that a number of these animals died as a result of getting caught in fishing nets, known as bycatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dog walker Steve Borrett discovered the common dolphins on Friday on Pakefield beach. &#8220;They appeared unharmed apart from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-417054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}