[Pollinator] Ten policies for pollinators

[David Inouye]

If you can't access this, I can send a copy.

Dicks, L. V., B. Viana, R. Bommarco, B. Brosi, M. d. C. Arizmendi, S. A. 
Cunningham, L. Galetto, R. Hill, A. V. Lopes, C. Pires, H. Taki and S. 
G. Potts (2016). "Ten policies for pollinators." Science 354(6315): 975-976.

Summary

Earlier this year, the first global thematic assessment from the 
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem 
Services (IPBES) evaluated the state of knowledge about pollinators and 
pollination (/1/, /2/). It confirmed evidence of large-scale wild 
pollinator declines in northwest Europe and North America and identified 
data shortfalls and an urgent need for monitoring elsewhere in the 
world. With high-level political commitments to support pollinators in 
the United States (/3/), the United Kingdom (/4/), and France (/5/); 
encouragement from the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD's) 
scientific advice body (/6/); and the issue on the agenda for next 
month's Conference of the Parties to the CBD, we see a chance for 
global-scale policy change. We extend beyond the IPBES report, which we 
helped to write, and suggest 10 policies that governments should 
seriously consider to protect pollinators and secure pollination 
services. Our suggestions are not the only available responses but are 
those we consider most likely to succeed, because of synergy with 
international policy objectives and strategies or formulation of 
international policy creating opportunities for change. We make these 
suggestions as independent scientists and not on behalf of IPBES.

-- 
Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
inouye at umd.edu

Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224

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