{"id":378480,"date":"2026-08-22T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378480\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:38:08","slug":"refuge-provides-update-on-wow-sanibel-captiva-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378480\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge provides update on WoW &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cDing\u201d Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) reported that the J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge\u2019s Wildlife on Wheels (WoW) team again broke records for the 2025-26 school year for the number of students and other individuals that it reached with its conservation education mission. The WoW visited 13 low-income, Title I schools in the School District of Lee County, with a total of 9,005 students. Add five summer camps totaling 530 students and the number rises to 9,535. It also visited and educated at seven community events, including two JetBlue Park STEM \u2014 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math \u2014 Days and two school-based STEM nights. Nearly 1,700 individuals attended the events, bringing the WoW\u2019s total impact to 11,225.<\/p>\n<p>To reach REFUGE\/DDWS, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/2026\/08\/refuge-provides-update-on-wow-23\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cDing\u201d Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) reported that the J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-378480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}