{"id":20457,"date":"2014-11-04T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2017-07-28T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:06:52","slug":"the-dracula-orchid-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/the-dracula-orchid-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dracula Orchid Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dracula orchids may have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/haunting-orchids\/\">a haunting side<\/a>, but these fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a> relatives need your help. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/endangered-species\/dont-be-afraid-dracula-orchids-they-need-your-help.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newly discovered Dracula species in Ecuador are threatened by deforestation. <\/a>Conservation groups are attempting to create a new nature sanctuary in northwestern Ecuador, to be named the Dracula Orchid Reserve. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainforesttrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainforest Trust<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ecominga.com\/Site10\/Home10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fundaci\u00f3n EcoMinga<\/a> want to save part of the Choc\u00f3 region, whose coastal rainforest is considered to be one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. \u201cThe Choc\u00f3 is the richest area,\u201d said Rainforest Trust CEO Paul Salaman. \u201cIt\u2019s possible that this small reserve of just 650 acres [263 hectares] could hold five percent of all the orchids on Earth.\u201d Many other rare plants, birds, and endangered creatures like <a href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/mammals\/spectacled-bear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Spectacled Bear<\/a> also make their homes in this incredible jungle.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainforesttrust.org\/get-involved\/why-support-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help Rainforest Trust<\/a> with donations,\u00a0which are tax deductible as allowed by law. They even accept Bitcoin donations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/1043217-ecuador-dracula-reserve-proposed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about the proposed Dracula Orchid Reserve at the <em>Epoch Times<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dracula orchids may have a haunting side, but these fascinating Masdevallia relatives need your help. Newly discovered Dracula species in Ecuador are threatened by deforestation. Conservation groups are attempting to create a new nature sanctuary in northwestern Ecuador, to be named the Dracula Orchid Reserve. Rainforest Trust and Fundaci\u00f3n EcoMinga want to save part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20457"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20498,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions\/20498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}