{"id":562,"date":"2017-08-05T03:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/?p=562"},"modified":"2017-08-07T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T18:33:56","slug":"get-to-know-the-worlds-most-endangered-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Get to know the world\u2019s most endangered plants &#8211; an introduction to cycads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CSG members Nathalie Nagalingum and James Clugston have collaborated on the following video introduction to cycads:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cycads are a model group for both education and science communication because of their incredible evolutionary history, ancient origin, and conservation threats. Cycad are at risk due to illegal poaching, over-collection, and habitat loss, and communicating these threats is very important to cycad survival. In a highly connected world, science communication is vital and online media can quickly get the message across.<\/p>\n<p>This video i provides an informative introduction to the cycads for scientists and non-scientists alike. The video introduces the Cycad Specialist Group (CSG), and explains cycad history, morphology, diversity, and reproduction. We hope the video will become a resource for all those who have an interest in getting to know and conserving the cycads.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/228256410\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/228256410\">Get to know the world&#8217;s most endangered plants<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user36654226\">James Clugston<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSG members Nathalie Nagalingum and James Clugston have collaborated on the following video introduction to cycads: &#8220;Cycads are a model group for both education and science communication because of their incredible evolutionary history, ancient origin, and conservation threats. Cycad are at risk due to illegal poaching, over-collection, and habitat loss, and communicating these threats is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/?p=562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get to know the world\u2019s most endangered plants &#8211; an introduction to cycads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}