[Pollinator] Pollinator Partnership Receives National Medal for Environmental Protection and Advocates Increased Public Protection of Pollinators

[Jennifer Tsang]

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Pollinator Partnership Receives National Medal for Environmental Protection
from The Garden Club of America and Advocates Increased Public Protection of
Pollinators

 

Indianapolis (APRIL 30) The Pollinator Partnership (P2) was presented the
prestigious Cynthia Pratt Laughlin Medal by The Garden Club of America at
its annual awards ceremony on April 30 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  P2 is the
twenty-second recipient of this national medal, awarded for "outstanding
achievement in environmental protection and the maintenance of the quality
of life."

 

Pollination is vital to the production of 80% of the world's crops and to
many plants in the planet's ecosystems. In presenting this medal, The Garden
Club of America acknowledged P2's effective efforts to achieve its mission
"...to protect pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through
conservation, education and research" through "building awareness of
pollinator issues and advancing scientific understanding." Several of P2's
major accomplishments were cited, including its "creation and management of
the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) through which key
governmental and non-governmental stakeholders take actions to protect
pollinators." 

 

The GCA also recognized P2's work with federal agencies and Congress to
integrate pollinator language into key legislation, such as The Farm Act of
2008, and its promotion of public initiatives. The designation of the annual
Pollinator Week during the last week of June encourages the public's
involvement in protecting bees, birds, bats and other pollinators.  This
year's Pollinator Week is June 20-27th. 

 

In accepting this medal, P2's Executive Director, Laurie Davies Adams,
acknowledged, "More than any group in the country, The Garden Club of
America has an appreciation for the power of plants and the integral-but
often unseen or even unknown-role played by pollinators in securing our food
supply and our natural environment." She further noted, "Tragically,
pollinators show dangerous signs of decline worldwide."

 

Adams advocates that everyone should share in protecting pollinators through
creating pollinator-friendly habitat. The P2 web site, www.pollinator.org
<http://www.pollinator.org/> , offers Eco-Regional Guides identifying the
plants and planting methods capable of supporting pollinators in 31 regions
across the continental US. The web site also has important information about
P2's many initiatives to save pollinators and how the public can help.

 

The Garden Club of America is a national leader in the fields of
horticulture, conservation and civic improvement and its purpose is to
stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening; to share the advantages of
association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence,
and publications; and to restore, improve and protect the quality of the
environment through educational programs and action.  Founded in 1913, GCA
is a nonprofit organization comprised of 199 member clubs and more than
17,500 individual members throughout the country.  

 

Additional information about P2 receiving this medal can be found on The
Garden Club of America web site, www.gcamerica.org
<http://www.gcamerica.org/> , after April 30, 2011.

 

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