{"id":40565,"date":"2022-06-07T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=40565"},"modified":"2022-06-14T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T04:23:51","slug":"spate-of-orchid-thefts-in-england-puts-rare-species-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/07\/spate-of-orchid-thefts-in-england-puts-rare-species-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Spate of Orchid Thefts in England Puts Rare Species at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/01\/orchids-thefts-england-rare-species-risk-sussex-kent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchid thieves have been busy in the UK, destroying native species in the process.<\/a> Burnt-tip Orchids and Late Spider Orchids are both rare and endangered in England. Dozens of them have gone missing. Orchid experts believe that the plants may have been &#8220;stolen to order&#8221; by foolish and selfish orchid collectors, who don&#8217;t care about the damage they&#8217;re causing. The stolen species will likely die after being dug up and replanted.<\/p>\n<p>Other orchids are already extinct or highly endangered in the UK because of habitat destruction and illegal poaching. True orchid lovers don&#8217;t steal plants from the wild and threaten rare species. Never take flowers or plants from the wild, or buy plants which have been removed from the wild. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/26\/good-practices-and-bad-habits-of-nature-photography\/\">Use caution when photographing plants, and remove location data when posting photos on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid thieves have been busy in the UK, destroying native species in the process. Burnt-tip Orchids and Late Spider Orchids are both rare and endangered in England. Dozens of them have gone missing. Orchid experts believe that the plants may have been &#8220;stolen to order&#8221; by foolish and selfish orchid collectors, who don&#8217;t care about [&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-40565","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\/40565","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=40565"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40591,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40565\/revisions\/40591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}