{"id":301,"date":"2011-11-21T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/?p=301"},"modified":"2014-08-31T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T09:21:17","slug":"ziarat-living-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/2011\/11\/21\/ziarat-living-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziarat&#8217;s  Living Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JR8Ko6yTv_o\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more-->As the sun sets on the Ziarat valley, it is saddening to see the once lush green Juniper forest now dotted with barren patches. Here a question arises: what can be done to save these living fossils? If a forest that has been around for thousands of years dies,\u00a0an irreplaceable ecological treasure unique to the region and the incredible bio-diversity it supports will be lost forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ziarat&#8217;s Living Fossils<\/strong> is a short film which highlights the ecological, historical and cultural importance of the Juniper trees. Juniper forest of Ziarat is the second largest \u00a0concentration in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The film has been produced by <a title=\"IUCN Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/iucnp.org\" target=\"_blank\">IUCN Pakistan<\/a> under the UN&#8217;s International Year of the Forest film series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iucnp","category-pnc-web","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnc.iucnp.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}