{"id":486473,"date":"2026-03-20T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486473\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:57:09","slug":"dead-dolphin-found-on-paphos-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486473\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead dolphin found on Paphos beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead dolphin was found washed ashore on Friday morning on the Pharos seafront promenade in Kato Paphos.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was found by residents during early morning walks, with passers by alerting both police and the fisheries department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attended the scene shortly afterwards to examine the carcass and secure the area.<\/p>\n<p>Fisheries officials collected samples on site for laboratory analysis, as part of standard procedures aimed at determining what led to the dolphin\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>An official at the scene said the priority was to \u201cestablish the cause through scientific examination\u201d and ensure all protocols were followed.<\/p>\n<p>Following the initial inspection, the carcass was removed from the beach and transported to a designated facility for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed that the process was carried out \u201cin line with established procedures for marine wildlife incidents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the laboratory analysis are expected to provide further clarity in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead dolphin was found washed ashore on Friday morning on the Pharos seafront promenade in Kato Paphos.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[10528,5263,2294,10527,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-486473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cyprus-news","tag-dolphins","tag-home","tag-paphos","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486473","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=486473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}