{"id":7264,"date":"2011-03-03T21:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2011-08-09T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:45:48","slug":"rare-hawaiian-orchids-going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/rare-hawaiian-orchids-going-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Hawaiian Orchids Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110228_Illinois_expert_on_orchids_to_bring_rarity_to_islands.html\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois College biologists are bringing some rare orchids home to Hawaii<\/a>. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/orchid-cops\/\">I blogged last May<\/a>, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforplantconservation.org\/collection\/cpc_viewprofile.asp?CPCNum=3517\" target=\"_blank\">Platanthera species<\/a>, also known as the Fringed Orchid, is one of the few true island natives, and it&#8217;s endangered. Habitat destruction, invasive plants and animals, and theft from the  wild have severely reduced the wild population. In 1992, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Iniki\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Iniki<\/a> almost wiped out all the Fringed Orchids on Kauai. Only one remains there, with a few dozen more on Maui and Molokai. Illinois College and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Tropical Botanical Garden<\/a> have been collaborating to grow them and return them to the wild. This weekend, they&#8217;ll plant about 90 seedlings from an Illinois lab back in their native Hawaiian habitats. While celebrating this success, Chipper Wichman, director of Kauai&#8217;s National Tropical Botanical Garden, added that &#8220;This does not ensure the survival of this species. What this does is it gives us a huge step forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois College biologists are bringing some rare orchids home to Hawaii. Like I blogged last May, this Platanthera species, also known as the Fringed Orchid, is one of the few true island natives, and it&#8217;s endangered. Habitat destruction, invasive plants and animals, and theft from the wild have severely reduced the wild population. In 1992, [&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-7264","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\/7264","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=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}