{"id":438713,"date":"2026-02-21T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:27:09","slug":"dead-porpoise-washes-up-on-roanhead-beach-in-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438713\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead porpoise washes up on Roanhead Beach in Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The photos, taken by a reporter from The Mail on Saturday, February 21, show the dead mammal on Roanhead Beach with visible injuries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Advice from the North West Wildlife Trusts states that members of the public should avoid interacting with any such animal if seen in a similar situation, but that reporting the sighting is essential.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Sightings should be reported to the relevant bodies (Image: NQ)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson said: &#8220;Information collected from dead stranded animals is vital to our understanding of marine life and helps us work to improve marine wildlife protection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Dead strandings can help us learn about marine animals&#8217; diet, health and disease, the effects of pollution and bycatch, distribution, and specific threats that they face.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Avoid touching the animal and always make sure to wash your hands if any contact is made; dead marine animals, like any other animal,\u00a0can carry disease or infection.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In England and Wales, sightings of a dead cetacean such as a porpoise can be reported to the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) on 0800 652 0333.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photos, taken by a reporter from The Mail on Saturday, February 21, show the dead mammal on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-438713","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\/438713","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=438713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}