{"id":26869,"date":"2017-01-27T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=26869"},"modified":"2017-04-05T07:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:01:28","slug":"poaching-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/27\/poaching-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Poaching Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid poaching is a global problem, as plants are torn from the wild for profit, or as a selfish person&#8217;s trophy. <a href=\"http:\/\/greatlakesecho.org\/2017\/01\/18\/in-pursuit-of-plants-poaching-orchids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Around the Great Lakes, poaching is threatening many native plants, including orchids.<\/a> True orchid lovers know that they need to keep locations secret when they find native species. If word gets out, the plants will, sadly, be poached, and likely be killed in the process. Scientists try to monitor populations, and orchid lovers, photographers, and park rangers try not to accidentally reveal precise locations. \u201cWhen you post photographs on the internet, people can track the area you\u2019re in by seeing the flora and plants in the habitat around the orchid \u2014 it\u2019s like CSI orchid edition.\u201d said Mark Carlson, a Michigan nature photographer. Citizen science projects around the region have yielded positive results, and allowed scientists to better protect rare species. Thanks to Becky Wildt, Megan McDonnell, and <a href=\"http:\/\/greatlakesecho.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Great Lakes Echo<\/em><\/a> for this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid poaching is a global problem, as plants are torn from the wild for profit, or as a selfish person&#8217;s trophy. Around the Great Lakes, poaching is threatening many native plants, including orchids. True orchid lovers know that they need to keep locations secret when they find native species. If word gets out, the plants [&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":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869","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=26869"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26921,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869\/revisions\/26921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}