{"id":9471,"date":"2011-08-09T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9471"},"modified":"2011-11-04T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:54:50","slug":"help-save-native-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/help-save-native-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Save Native Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.org\/default.aspx?id=1\" target=\"_blank\">American Orchid Society (AOS)<\/a> is helping the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Conservancy<\/a> to restore an important piece of land. Myrtle Head is a 72 acre (29 hectare) remnant of native pine savanna near the North Carolina coast. It&#8217;s part of the Green Swamp, which is considered one of the top biodiversity hotspots in North America. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venus_Flytrap\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Flytrap<\/a> is its most famous resident, but the Green Swamp is also home to 18 native North American orchid species. These include several types of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/epidendrum.html\">Epidendrums<\/a>, Platantheras, Spiranthes, and Pogonias. For more info and lots of great orchid pictures from the Green Swamp, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidconservationcoalition.org\/hl\/greenswampnc.html\" target=\"_blank\">check out this article from the Orchid Conservation Coalition about habitat loss in the area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Money raised by the AOS will go to restore native habitat, and give these local species a better foothold at Myrtle Head. To help, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.org\/default.aspx?id=1\" target=\"_blank\">the AOS homepage<\/a> and click on the &#8220;Myrtle Head Savanna&#8221; tab. Links to donate are at the bottom of that page. Any size contribution is appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Orchid Society (AOS) is helping the Nature Conservancy to restore an important piece of land. Myrtle Head is a 72 acre (29 hectare) remnant of native pine savanna near the North Carolina coast. It&#8217;s part of the Green Swamp, which is considered one of the top biodiversity hotspots in North America. The Venus [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471","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=9471"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}