{"id":29069,"date":"2018-01-17T20:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=29069"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:12:44","slug":"save-the-flying-duck-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/save-the-flying-duck-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Flying Duck Orchid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.environment.sa.gov.au\/botanicgardens\/support-us\/current-projects\/threatened-orchids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Botanic Gardens of South Australia are asking for donations to help save the Flying Duck Orchid.<\/a> You may have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/bie.ala.org.au\/species\/http:\/\/id.biodiversity.org.au\/name\/apni\/94865#gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its bizarre flower, which truly looks like a flying duck<\/a>. Unfortunately, like many other fascinating Australian species, it&#8217;s endangered by habitat destruction and invasive species. Over 40% of South Australia&#8217;s orchids are threatened with extinction. The goal is to create a seed bank to protect 20 native orchid species, including the Flying Duck, with the future aim of reinforcing wild populations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environment.sa.gov.au\/botanicgardens\/support-us\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Their donations page can accept contributions from outside Australia, too.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Botanic Gardens of South Australia are asking for donations to help save the Flying Duck Orchid. You may have seen its bizarre flower, which truly looks like a flying duck. Unfortunately, like many other fascinating Australian species, it&#8217;s endangered by habitat destruction and invasive species. Over 40% of South Australia&#8217;s orchids are threatened with [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069","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=29069"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29168,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions\/29168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}