{"id":48119,"date":"2022-09-02T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T03:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/bay-of-plenty-great-white-shark-sightings-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-09-02T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T03:10:19","slug":"scientists-investigate-rise-in-great-white-shark-sightings-at-popular-new-zealand-holiday-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48119","title":{"rendered":"Scientists investigate rise in great white shark sightings at popular New Zealand holiday spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers and local iwi looking into whether increased reports of great whites around Bay of Plenty could be linked to warming oceans<\/p>\n<p>Great white shark sightings are increasing in one of New Zealand\u2019s most popular coastal holiday spots, with a team of experts assembling to find out what is behind the rise.<\/p>\n<p>The population in the Bay of Plenty region, on the North Island\u2019s east coast, booms over summer as holidaymakers flock to the area\u2019s beautiful beaches. But visitors have become increasingly fearful over what appears to be more frequent visits from great white sharks during summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>An earlier version of this story contained a picture of a mako shark the was incorrectly identified as a great white. The image has been removed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/bay-of-plenty-great-white-shark-sightings-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers and local iwi looking into whether increased reports of great whites around Bay of Plenty could be linked to warming oceansGreat white shark sightings are increasing in one of New Zealand\u2019s most popular coastal holiday spots, with a team of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,65,468,56,1816,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-sharks","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48120,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48119\/revisions\/48120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}