[Pollinator] Seed World - December 2009

[Jennifer Tsang]

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PROTECTING POLLINATORS

The disappearance of pollinating insects around the world has prompted
global action. Work is being done by scientists, companies and organizations
around the world to help to curb the decline in populations of pollinating
insects.

 


 

AT LEAST 80% OF the world's crop plant species require pollination with an
estimated one out of every three bites of food coming to us through the work
of animal pollinators which includes birds, bees, butterflies, bats and
beetles that transfer pollen between plants. 

 The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign is an alliance of
pollinator researchers, conservation and environmental groups, private
industry and state and federal agencies. According to NAPPC, the declines in
health and population of pollinators in North America and globally pose a
significant...

 

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