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Laurie Davies Adams
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Pollination Park

Conference Looks at Turning Landfill Into World's First Pollination Park

Guelph - Turning a garbage dump into a bloom-filled haven for birds, 
butterflies and other pollinating insects is the vision the Guelph Pollination 
Initiative has for a local landfill site.

In an effort to educate others about this vision to create the world's first 
pollination park, the initiative is staging a daylong symposium March 7 at the 
Guelph Youth Music Centre open to anyone interested in the project.

Hosted by the University of Guelph and the City of Guelph, the event will 
focus on plans to turn Guelph's Eastview landfill into an urban habitat for 
pollinators by designing the 100 acres to include plant species that attract 
pollinators.

The Guelph project involves U of G experts in urban landscape architecture, 
plant agriculture, integrative biology, environmental biology and geography who 
will work with city planners and landfill management engineers.

The goal is for the site to be a model for future pollination parks, intended 
to help stem a worldwide decline in pollinators that has many people worried 
about future food supplies.

The event begins at 9 a.m., with registration at 8:30 a.m. Cost is $5, 
including lunch.

"We want Guelph residents and people who are interested in the project to 
come out," said Prof. Karen Landman of the School of Environmental Design and 
Rural Development, who is one of the lead researchers in the pollination park 
project. "It’s about bringing people with a variety of backgrounds together to 
generate ideas about how pollination habitat can be built back into the 
landscape. Anyone can play a role in rebuilding the environment."


Landman will speak on design options for landfill sites. Also presenting from 
the University are environmental biology graduate student Marianna Horn, who 
will talk about the importance of pollination, and engineering professor Ed 
McBean, who will discuss the features of landfill sites.


Other speakers include Julianna Tuell, of Michigan State University, who will 
focus on native plants and their pollinators; Gordon Frankie of the 
University of California, Berkeley, who will describe urban pollination in California; 
and Steven Handel of Rutgers University, who will discuss restoration of 
landfill sites. Guelph city councillor Vicki Beard will also speak.


The general public is also invited to attend the March 8 Canadian Pollinator 
Protection Initiative Meeting, where experts in pollination and pollinator 
habitat will share ideas. This event begins at 9 a.m. at the Guelph Youth Music 
Centre. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. and costs $5.



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