{"id":40868,"date":"2022-08-13T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=40868"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:30:19","slug":"the-orchid-project-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/13\/the-orchid-project-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchid Project in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda, a small, central African country, is home to over 240 native orchid species. <a href=\"https:\/\/africanccf.org\/program\/the-orchid-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Orchid Project in Rwanda<\/a> is an initiative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/africanccf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Community &amp; Conservation Foundation (ACCF,)<\/a> and works to save the country&#8217;s orchids, and restore them to their native habitats. Massive deforestation in the area has endangered plant and animals. The group has already rescued many orchids, including saving thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidspecies.com\/cynanacamptoides.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cynorkis anacamptoides<\/em><\/a> from destruction. They&#8217;re also trying to conserve varied forms of the beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Ansellia+africana&amp;client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;sxsrf=ALiCzsYQt_sIo2rQTCTOxXt3gfehpnCKew:1660409849194&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiynfjZpMT5AhWcLEQIHWctBSkQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=616&amp;dpr=1.5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leopard Orchid, <em>Ansellia africana<\/em><\/a>. You can support their efforts by <a href=\"https:\/\/africanccf.org\/donate\/rwanda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donating to the ACCF<\/a>. It&#8217;s a non-profit organization, so contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Rwanda&#8217;s orchids at <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbeorchids.org\/rwanda\/orchids-of-nyungwe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchids of Nyungwe<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/singita.com\/archive\/conservation-singita\/preserving-the-fragile-beauty-of-rwandas-indigenous-orchids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preserving the Fragile Beauty of Rwanda&#8217;s Indigenous Orchids<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda, a small, central African country, is home to over 240 native orchid species. The Orchid Project in Rwanda is an initiative of the African Community &amp; Conservation Foundation (ACCF,) and works to save the country&#8217;s orchids, and restore them to their native habitats. Massive deforestation in the area has endangered plant and animals. 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":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40868","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\/40868","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=40868"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41110,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868\/revisions\/41110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}