{"id":766151,"date":"2023-09-19T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766151"},"modified":"2023-09-19T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:00:02","slug":"researchers-issue-urgent-call-to-save-the-worlds-largest-flower-rafflesia-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766151","title":{"rendered":"Researchers issue urgent call to save the world&#039;s largest flower, Rafflesia, from extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of scientists, including botanists at the University of Oxford&#8217;s Botanic Garden, has issued an urgent call for coordinated action to save the iconic genus Rafflesia, which contains the world&#8217;s largest flowers. This follows a new study that found that most of the 42 species are severely threatened, yet just one of these is listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)&#8217;s Red List of Threatened Species. Furthermore, over two-thirds (67%) of the plants&#8217; habitats are unprotected and at risk of destruction.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-issue-urgent-world-largest-rafflesia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers issue urgent call to save the world&#8217;s largest flower, Rafflesia, from extinction<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of scientists, including botanists at the University of Oxford&#8217;s Botanic Garden, has issued an urgent call for coordinated action to save the iconic genus Rafflesia, which contains&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}