{"id":40354,"date":"2023-10-20T20:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=40354"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T01:47:33","slug":"the-iucn-orchid-specialist-group-works-for-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/20\/the-iucn-orchid-specialist-group-works-for-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"The IUCN Orchid Specialist Group Works for Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchidspecialistgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The IUCN Orchid Specialist Group does vital conservation work.<\/a> IUCN stands for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Union for Conservation of Nature<\/a>, a global organization which strives to preserve nature and promote sustainable development. Thousands of experts volunteer their time to support IUCN&#8217;s projects, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/a>. The Red List scientifically assesses the extinction risk for plants, animals, and all living creatures. The Orchid Specialist Group (OSG) was first created in 1984 to focus on orchid conservation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchidspecialistgroup.com\/orchid-rla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thousands of orchid species have been studied<\/a>, and many are listed as endangered, close to extinction, or already extinct. Most orchid species still need to be surveyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchidspecialistgroup.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchid experts can volunteer with the OSG by contacting them online.<\/a> Everyone can enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchidspecialistgroup.com\/gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their wonderful orchid photo gallery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchidspecialistgroup.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletters<\/a>, and informative info on their website. Their work is essential to save endangered orchids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IUCN Orchid Specialist Group does vital conservation work. IUCN stands for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a global organization which strives to preserve nature and promote sustainable development. Thousands of experts volunteer their time to support IUCN&#8217;s projects, including the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The Red List scientifically assesses the [&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-40354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354","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=40354"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44772,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions\/44772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}