{"id":41464,"date":"2022-10-14T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=41464"},"modified":"2022-10-22T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T03:57:15","slug":"new-poster-highlights-protected-orchids-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/14\/new-poster-highlights-protected-orchids-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poster Highlights Protected Orchids of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is home to over 1,250 native orchid species. As is the case in many countries, those orchids are threatened by overharvesting of wild plants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traffic.org\/news\/protected-orchids-of-india-new-identification-poster-released-to-help-strengthen-wildlife-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To improve enforcement of India&#8217;s laws, a new poster has been created by the World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC, a registered UK charity which works to stop illegal wildlife trade.<\/a> The poster identifies 11 of the most endangered varieties, offering clear illustrations of nine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphs<\/a>, one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vanda<\/a>, and one Renanthera. Check out a small version of the poster below, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traffic.org\/site\/assets\/files\/19113\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india-_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the larger size from the website<\/a>. You can also learn more about India&#8217;s orchids with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traffic.org\/publications\/reports\/factsheet-on-orchids-in-indias-illegal-wildlife-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fact sheet containing important information about the plants, the threats they face, and conservation efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41705 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india_1000px-128x91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india_1000px-128x91.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india_1000px-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india_1000px-768x548.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legally_protected_orchids_of_india_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is home to over 1,250 native orchid species. As is the case in many countries, those orchids are threatened by overharvesting of wild plants. To improve enforcement of India&#8217;s laws, a new poster has been created by the World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC, a registered UK charity which works to stop illegal wildlife trade. [&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-41464","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\/41464","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=41464"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41722,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41464\/revisions\/41722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}