{"id":22149,"date":"2015-06-16T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=22149"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:41:47","slug":"botanic-gardens-conservation-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/botanic-gardens-conservation-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanic Gardens Conservation International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgci.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)<\/a> is the world&#8217;s largest plant conservation network, and it&#8217;s trying to save the planet&#8217;s plants. Based at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kew<\/a> in London, the group&#8217;s membership includes over 800 botanic gardens from 118 countries. These gardens work together to share info, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgci.org\/climate\/index\/\" target=\"_blank\">battle climate change<\/a>, educate the public about the environment, and coordinate protection efforts. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botanic_Gardens_Conservation_International\" target=\"_blank\">BGCI currently runs large conservation projects in China, North America, Russia, and the Mid East.<\/a> Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgci.org\/ourwork\/Platanthera_leucophaea\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Eastern Prairie White Fringed Orchid, one of the species they&#8217;re working to save in Illinois<\/a>.\u00a0 You can help by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgci.org\/joinin\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\">donating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgci.org\/joinin\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\">becoming an individual member<\/a>, and supporting your own local botanical garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is the world&#8217;s largest plant conservation network, and it&#8217;s trying to save the planet&#8217;s plants. Based at Kew in London, the group&#8217;s membership includes over 800 botanic gardens from 118 countries. These gardens work together to share info, battle climate change, educate the public about the environment, and coordinate protection [&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":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","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=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22333,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}