{"id":7083,"date":"2023-01-18T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2023-01-29T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T01:06:52","slug":"operation-wildlife-coming-to-hilo-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/archives\/7083","title":{"rendered":"Operation Wildlife coming to Hilo soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Operation Wildlife<\/strong>\u00a0is an educational program that travels to Neighbor Island and Oahu schools to teach fourth\u00a0grade students\u00a0about animal endangerment and preservation. (Hawaii has more endangered species than any other state.) Assistance League of Hawaii has collected over 100 exotic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biofact_(biology)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>biofacts<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(tiger skin, elephant tooth, piranha, and much more) for students to touch, feel and examine.<\/p>\n<p>Member volunteers travel to Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, Molokai, carrying suitcases filled with biofacts and PowePpoint video equipment. They present a memorable endangered species program for students, of which many have not been to a zoo.<\/p>\n<p>This traveling program enhances the\u00a0fourth\u00a0grade endangered species and Earth\u2019s ecosystems in their science curriculum at schools on all major Hawaiian Islands. Students handle a fantastic array of animal skins, skulls, furs and feathers. They gain understanding for the need to care for and conserve natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/05\/IMG_0993-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Wildlife\u00a0is an educational program that travels to Neighbor Island and Oahu schools to teach fourth\u00a0grade students\u00a0about animal endangerment and preservation. (Hawaii has more endangered species than any other state.) Assistance League of Hawaii has collected over 100 exotic\u00a0biofacts\u00a0(tiger skin, elephant tooth, piranha, and much more) for students to touch, feel and examine. Member volunteers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36833,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,55],"tags":[190,62,191,78,77,192,63],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-operation-wildlife","tag-4th-graders","tag-assistance-league-of-hawaii","tag-environment","tag-hawaii","tag-honolulu","tag-learning","tag-operation-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/hawaii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}