{"id":5912,"date":"2011-04-13T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2011-07-26T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T04:34:20","slug":"center-for-conservation-of-amazonian-flora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/13\/center-for-conservation-of-amazonian-flora\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Conservation of Amazonian Flora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jardinbotanicolasorquideas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Conservation of Amazonian Flora<\/a> began 3 decades ago with one man&#8217;s dream and a little patch of land. In 1980, an Ecuadoran accountant named Omar Tello bought 15 acres (6 hectares) of pasture, and began to restore it to tropical rainforest. He had no formal schooling in horticulture or biology, but that little patch is now a thriving botanical garden. It has over 1200 native plant species, including 200 orchid species, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallias<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/vanilla-valentine\/\">Vanillas<\/a>. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jardinbotanicolasorquideas.com\/english\/inner\/orchids1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">an incredible slideshow of some of these orchids.<\/a> The garden also has become a vital home for Amazon birds, insects, and animals. Known by its Spanish acronym CERFA <em>(Centro de Rescate de la Flora Amaz\u00f3nica,)<\/em> it&#8217;s attracting support from volunteers and international conservation groups.<\/p>\n<p>Tello is working with these groups to expand his little patch by the foothills of the Andes. CERFA is trying to buy a 62 acre (25 hectare) parcel next door, before a growing nearby town swallows it up. With the additional land, the garden would be big enough for larger animals like monkeys, sloths, and anteaters to move in. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/jardinbotanicolasorquideas.com\/english\/inner\/protecthabitat.htm\" target=\"_blank\">help by supporting the garden directly<\/a>, or by donating to <a href=\"http:\/\/ecominga.net\/Site10\/Home10.html\" target=\"_blank\">EcoMinga<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jardinbotanicolasorquideas.com\/english\/inner\/amigosandlinks1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">other CERFA friends<\/a>. Dollars, Pounds, and Euros go far in Ecuador, so even a small contribution can make a big difference to save Amazonian flora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Conservation of Amazonian Flora began 3 decades ago with one man&#8217;s dream and a little patch of land. In 1980, an Ecuadoran accountant named Omar Tello bought 15 acres (6 hectares) of pasture, and began to restore it to tropical rainforest. He had no formal schooling in horticulture or biology, but that [&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":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","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=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8008,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}