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<DIV>The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Canada in brief</FONT><BR><BR><FONT class=Content_body-links><B><FONT size=4>Decline of bees raises concern for food supply</FONT></B> </DIV>
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<P>OTTAWA (CP) — The decline of bee populations in Europe and North America has raised alarm about pollinators that fertilize crops essential for the human food supply.</P>
<P>Experts are calling for measures to protect pollinators of all kinds, including not only bees, both managed and wild, but birds, bats, flies and even beetles.</P>
<P>They say people should become much more tolerant of plant species that are viewed as weeds, which can be vital to pollinators’ survival.</P>
<P>"Pollinator declines and pollination deficits are now being reported for North America and may signal a threat to ecosystem and agricultural productivity," says a paper by University of Guelph ecologist Vernon Thomas.</P>
<P>The paper was presented this week in Ottawa at the first Canadian meeting of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign.</P></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#004000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12">Laurie Davies Adams<BR>Executive Director<BR>Coevolution Institute<BR>423 Washington St. 5th<BR>San Francisco, CA 94111<BR>415 362 1137<BR>LDA@coevolution.org<BR><A title=http://www.coevolution.org/ href="http://www.coevolution.org/">http://www.coevolution.org/</A></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#004000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"><BR><A title=http://www.pollinator.org/ href="http://www.pollinator.org/">http://www.pollinator.org/</A></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#004000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"><BR><A title=http://www.nappc.org/ href="http://www.nappc.org/">http://www.nappc.org/</A></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#004000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Bee Ready for National Pollinator Week: June 24-30, 2007. Contact us <BR>for more information at www.pollinator.org </FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#004000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"><BR><BR><B><I>Our future flies on the wings of pollinators.</B></I></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>