National Pollinator Week

The Senate passed Resolution 580 "Recognizing the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture in the United States and the value of partnership efforts to increase awareness about pollinators and support for protecting and sustaining pollinators by designating June 24 though June 30, 2007, as 'National Pollinator Week'." Read Resolution 580. National Pollinator Week 2008 was June 22 through June 28, 2008. To get more information about the upcoming National Pollinator Week, planned for June 22 through June 28, 2009, click here.

Additionally, Mike Johans, Secretary of Agriculture at the United States Department of Agriculture, issued a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to join in celebrating the vital significance of pollinators to agriculture and to public lands as well as the Department's conservation assistance to farmers and ranchers and its management of ecosystems providing valuable pollinator habitats through the Nation, and recognizing National Pollinator Week. Read the Proclamation.Portable Document Format (PDF)

Pollinator Conservation Initiatives and Organizations

National and international organizations concerned with protecting and conserving pollinators and pollinator habitats are increasing in number globally thanks to recent recognition of the value of pollinators to our agricultural and natural ecosystems. International consortiums such as the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) and the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network Pollinators Thematic Network (IABIN PTN) are working to increase global awareness on this issue. Other regional initiatives address pollinator concerns in Europe (European Pollinator Initiative), Central and South America (Brazilian Pollinators Initiative), Africa (African Pollinator Initiative), and Australia and the Oceanic Islands (Oceania Pollinator Initiative). NAPPC and the regional initiatives also support the International Pollinators Initiative.

Pollinator Conservation Initiatives and Organizations
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CollaspeAgricultural Biodiversity International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators
Description: From the Web site: "The Convention's agricultural biodiversity work programme focuses on assessing the status and trends of the world's agricultural biodiversity and of their underlying causes, as well as of local knowledge of its management. It also pays attention at identifying and promoting adaptive-management practices, technologies, policies and incentives. In addition, it promotes the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources that are of actual or potential value for food and agriculture. The work programme focuses on various technical aspects of new technologies, such as Genetic Use of Restriction Technologies (GURT), and the potential implications of these technologies on agricultural biodiversity, biosecurity, farming, and economy. It also has as cross-cutting initiatives within the agricultural work programme, "the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators" and an International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiversity." The International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators "was developed to promote coordinated action worldwide to: Monitor pollinator decline, its causes and its impact on pollination services; Address the lack of taxonomic information on pollinators; Assess the economic value of pollination and the economic impact of the decline of pollination services; Promote the conservation and the restoration and sustainable use of pollinator diversity in agriculture and related ecosystems;"
Resource Type: Consortia, Issue Overviews, Treaties and Conventions
Resource Format: URL
Publisher: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ) United National Environment Programme
ExpandALEXANOR's Butterfly Home Page
ExpandAtala Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association
ExpandBroward Chapter of North American Butterfly Association
ExpandButterfly Conservation - Saving butterflies, moths and their habitats
ExpandButterfly Conservation Europe
ExpandButterfly Conservation Initiative Website
ExpandButterfly Enthusiasts of Southeast Texas
ExpandCanadian Pollinator Protection Initiative Meeting
ExpandChicago Park District Butterfly Monitoring Program
ExpandEuropean Pollinator Initiative
ExpandFlorida Butterfly Monitoring Network ( FBMN )
ExpandGreat Pollinator Project
ExpandIABIN Pollinators Thematic Network (PTN) Standards and Protocols
ExpandIllinois Butterfly Monitoring Network ( IBMN )
ExpandInter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) Pollinators Thematic Network (PTN)
ExpandMiami Blue Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association
ExpandNorth American Butterfly Association
ExpandNorth American Butterfly Association Sarasota County Butterfly Club
ExpandNorth American Butterfly Association Links

Postal Service Releases
Pollinator Stamps

United States Postal Service Pollinator Stamp Design. Copyright 2007 USPS. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 2007 USPS. All Rights Reserved. Steve Buchanan (artist).

The four-design, 20-stamp Pollination booklet was released during National Pollinator Week, June 24-30 2007. Depicted on the Pollination stamps by artist Steve Buchanan are four wildflowers and four pollinators. Two Morrison's bumble bees (Bombus morrisoni) are paired with purple or chaparral nightshade (Solanum xanti) (one of the bees is actively engaged in buzz pollination). A calliope hummingbird (Stellula calliope) sips from a hummingbird trumpet (Epilobium canum) blossom. A lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) prepares to "dive" into a saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) flower. And a southern dogface butterfly (Colias cesonia) visits prairie or common ironweed (Vernonta fasciculata).

The four stamps are arranged in two alternate and interlocking patterns. In one block, the pollinators form a central starburst. In the other, the flowers are arranged in the center. "These stamps are a special way to honor the beauty that is in our midst each day," said Yverne Pat Moore, Postmaster, Washington, D.C., U.S. Postal Service. "The animals featured on the stamps are beautiful ambassadors of nature." Read the U.S. Postal Service Press Release (U.S. Postal Service).

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