{"id":37241,"date":"2021-02-07T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=37241"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:22:07","slug":"villagers-and-forest-officials-breathe-new-life-into-indias-only-orchid-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/07\/villagers-and-forest-officials-breathe-new-life-into-indias-only-orchid-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers and Forest Officials Breathe New Life into India\u2019s Only Orchid Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/north-east-india\/arunachal-pradesh\/in-arunachal-villagers-and-forest-officials-collaborate-to-breathe-new-life-to-indias-only-orchid-sanctuary-7173323\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Himalayan foothills of northeastern India, the country&#8217;s only orchid sanctuary has had a facelift.<\/a>\u00a0Founded in 1989, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arunachaltourism.com\/circuit1-sessa.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sessa Orchid Sanctuary<\/a> covers 39 square miles (100 square km) in the state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arunachal_Pradesh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arunachal Pradesh<\/a>, a biodiversity hotspot which is known as the &#8220;Orchid State of India.&#8221; Sessa villagers and government forest officials have installed a prominent new front gate and a boardwalk. There is also a new visitors&#8217; trail with orchids identified along the way. The sanctuary contains over 230 native orchid species, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cymbidium.html\">Cymbidiums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobiums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/how-to-say-coelogyne\/\">Coelogynes<\/a>, and other endangered plants. The hope is to increase ecotourism to the area, and help to counter the threats of deforestation, overgrazing, and the illegal orchid trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Himalayan foothills of northeastern India, the country&#8217;s only orchid sanctuary has had a facelift.\u00a0Founded in 1989, Sessa Orchid Sanctuary covers 39 square miles (100 square km) in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, a biodiversity hotspot which is known as the &#8220;Orchid State of India.&#8221; Sessa villagers and government forest officials have installed a [&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-37241","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\/37241","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=37241"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37275,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37241\/revisions\/37275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}