{"id":544,"date":"2009-10-11T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T22:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-09-21T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:10:39","slug":"orchid-conservation-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/orchid-conservation-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Conservation International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidconservation.org\/\">Orchid Conservation International (OCI)<\/a> is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes preservation of rare and endangered orchids and their habitats. Orchids have not had a central conservation organization like many endangered animal groups have. OCI was established in the UK to provide a base for worldwide orchid conservation activities. These efforts include public education about orchids, such as this Saturday&#8217;s upcoming talk in London. On Saturday, October 17, orchid expert Professor Mark Chase will speak about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidconservation.org\/main\/oci-events.html\">&#8220;Why Orchids Were So Important to Darwin&#8221;<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/\">Kew Royal Botanic Gardens<\/a>. OCI has a website redesign underway, but you can still support this worthwhile organization by joining as a member, attending their talks, making a donation, or purchasing their posters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid Conservation International (OCI) is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes preservation of rare and endangered orchids and their habitats. Orchids have not had a central conservation organization like many endangered animal groups have. OCI was established in the UK to provide a base for worldwide orchid conservation activities. These efforts include public education 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":[21,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}