{"id":9135,"date":"2011-07-03T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2011-10-28T21:30:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T05:30:56","slug":"saving-hawaii%e2%80%99s-rarest-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/03\/saving-hawaii%e2%80%99s-rarest-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Hawaii\u2019s Rarest Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Honolulu Civil Beat<\/em> offers two great stories about native Hawaiian orchids. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/01\/11915-hawaiis-three-native-orchids\/\" target=\"_blank\">The first article, &#8220;Hawaii&#8217;s Three Native Orchids,&#8221; is a quick read with great photos of the endangered species.<\/a> It has an update on attempts to rescue the rarest variety from extinction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/rare-hawaiian-orchids-going-home\/\">which I&#8217;ve blogged about before<\/a>. So far, it&#8217;s good news on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kauai\" target=\"_blank\">Kauai<\/a>, where several Platanthera holochila plants have been successfully reintroduced, and another wild plant holds on. Both articles include a slideshow of the species&#8217; unique mountain habitat on Kauai, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viamagazine.com\/destinations\/kauais-alakai-swamp\" target=\"_blank\">the Alakai Swamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/01\/11913-saving-hawaiis-rarest-orchid\/\" target=\"_blank\">The second article, &#8220;Saving Hawaii\u2019s Rarest Orchid,&#8221; explores this unique habitat in-depth.<\/a> The Alakai Swamp is one of the rainiest places on earth, and it&#8217;s home to dwarf trees, unusual ferns and mosses, and many endangered plants, including that last known wild Platanthera on Kauai. The author treks through this alpine bog with scientists who are working hard to reestablish the species. With their efforts, the rare orchids might regain a foothold and begin the long journey away from the edge of extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Civil Beat offers two great stories about native Hawaiian orchids. The first article, &#8220;Hawaii&#8217;s Three Native Orchids,&#8221; is a quick read with great photos of the endangered species. It has an update on attempts to rescue the rarest variety from extinction, which I&#8217;ve blogged about before. So far, it&#8217;s good news on Kauai, [&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-9135","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\/9135","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=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}