{"id":567,"date":"2017-08-07T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2017-08-07T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T18:32:22","slug":"about-cycads","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/?page_id=567","title":{"rendered":"About 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=\"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/?page_id=567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Cycads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cycadgroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}