{"id":61693,"date":"2024-02-06T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/concern-for-killer-whales-trapped-in-drift-ice-off-the-coast-of-hokkaido-in-japan"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:58:19","slug":"concern-for-killer-whales-trapped-in-drift-ice-off-the-coast-of-hokkaido-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61693","title":{"rendered":"Concern for killer whales trapped in drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese media report that pod of orcas became trapped in ice close to Rausu on Shiretoko peninsula<\/p>\n<p>Concern is growing for the welfare of a pod of killer whales that appear to have become trapped in drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhk_hokkaido\/status\/1754704911353192884\">Footage<\/a> aired by the public broadcaster NHK on Tuesday showed at least 10 orcas poking out of a small gap in the surface of the water about 1 km off the coast of Rausu on the Shiretoko peninsula \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unesco\">Unesco<\/a> world heritage site famed for its abundant wildlife.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/concern-for-killer-whales-trapped-in-drift-ice-off-the-coast-of-hokkaido-in-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese media report that pod of orcas became trapped in ice close to Rausu on Shiretoko peninsulaConcern is growing for the welfare of a pod of killer whales that appear to have become trapped in drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[88,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693\/revisions\/61771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}