[Pollinator] DEADLINE 9/19: NAPPC Pollinator Advocate Award and NACD Pollinator Conservation Award Nominations

Mon Sep 15 15:55:05 PDT 2008

2008 NAPPC Pollinator Advocate Award and NAPPC/NACD Farmer-rancher
Pollinator Conservation Award Nominations BOTH DUE Sept. 19.

Due to confusion between the two different awards, the deadline for
nomination submission for both the (1) NAPPC Pollinator Advocate Award and
(2) the NAPPC/NACD Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award has been
extended to Friday, September 19th.

More information about the awards are attached.  Previous award winners are
listed at  <http://www.pollinator.org/awards.htm>
http://www.pollinator.org/awards.htm. 

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We are pleased to invite you to submit nominations for the recipients of the

2008 North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) Pollinator
Advocate Award

The attached nomination form is sent for your convenience.  You may nominate
as many people as you wish from Mexico, Canada and the United States.  Feel
free to distribute this solicitation widely to your contacts.

This award recognizes individuals and/or organizations which have
contributed significantly to pollinator species protection and conservation,
and to public education which results in increased awareness of the
importance of pollination.  NAPPC, through its recognition and appreciation
of these individuals and organizations, encourages their activity and hopes
to catalyze future actions on behalf of pollinators.  All activities that
contribute significantly toward pollinator conservation will be considered,
including but not limited to on the ground projects, educational programs,
development of policies and partnerships, research on pollinators, or
management activities that promote pollinators.

NAPPC partners are not eligible.

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The NAPPC/NACD

Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award

The Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award.  For the past three years
this award has recognized an individual or family in the farm and ranch
community in the U.S. who has contributed significantly to pollinator
species protection and conservation on working and wild lands.  NAPPC and
NACD through their recognition and appreciation of these individuals and
organizations encourage their conservation stewardship and hope to catalyze
future actions on behalf of pollinators through public recognition of the
award winner.  In selecting the winner, all activities that contribute
significantly toward pollinator conservation will be considered, including
but not limited to, "on-the-ground" pollinator conservation best management
practices, development of conservation partnerships and demonstration
projects that promote pollinator awareness and conservation. 

What is NAPPC?  The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)
has a nine year history of bringing together scientists, land managers,
agribusiness, conservation NGO's and private industry in a public-private
collaboration working on tri-national initiatives to highlight the
importance and to provide security for North American pollinators.  NAPPC,
facilitated by the Pollinator Partnership (P2), represents the North
American collaborative effort to increase knowledge, raise awareness,
investigate best practices and build cooperative ventures to ensure the
stability and sustainability of pollinators and flowering plants for food,
forests, flowers and farms.

Pollinating species are influential in the production of an estimated $40
billion in products in the United States alone.  Eighty percent of the food
plant species worldwide depend on pollination by animals, almost all of
which are insects.  Estimates of the impact of pollinators on our food
supply range as high as one out of every three mouthfuls of food we eat, and
of the beverages we drink.

More than half of the world's diet of fats and oils comes from oilseed
crops, many of which are pollinated by animals, including cotton, oil palm,
canola and sunflowers. 

What is NACD?  The National Association of Conservation Districts is the
nonprofit organization that represents the nation's 3,000 conservation
districts and 17,000 men and women who serve on their governing boards.
Conservation districts are local units of government established under state
law to carry out natural resource management programs at the local level.
Districts work with more than 2.5 million cooperating landowners and
operators to help them manage and protect land and water resources on nearly
98 percent of the private lands in the United States.  As the national voice
for all conservation districts, NACD supports voluntary, incentive-driven
natural resource conservation programs that benefit all citizens.  The
association's philosophy is that conservation decisions should be made by
local people with technical and funding assistance from federal, state and
local governments and the private sector. The association's programs and
activities aim to advance the resource conservation cause of local districts
and the millions of cooperating landowners and land managers they serve. 

Importance of the NAPPC/NACD Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award.

The award is a celebration of a growing movement in U.S. agriculture to
integrate positive conservation efforts into farm and ranch operations.  By
acknowledging the critical and yet often invisible contributions of bees,
butterflies, bats, birds, beetle and other animals, the award recipient is
leading by example in helping to pave the way for a healthy and sustainable
conservation movement. 

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