Accomplishments

SIGNATURE INITIATIVES

  • North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)

  • Pollinator Week

  • Ecoregional Native Planting Guides for Pollinators

AWARDS - VIEW ALL AWARDS

  • P2 received the prestigious national Cynthia Pratt Laughlin Medal by The Garden Club of America

  • NAPPC was selected twice as a PESP Champion by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Created NAPPC-WHC Pollinator Award to Corporations (past winners include Waste Management, American Electric Power, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., Lafarge North America Inc., General Motors Corporation, and PPG Industries, Inc.)

  • P2 and NAPPC have awarded 28 Pollinator Advocate Awards recognizing individual and organizations that support pollinators across Canada, the United States, and Mexico over the past 7 years

  • P2 and WHC have awarded Corporate Pollinator Advocate Awards to 9 corporations over the past 9 years, including: Toyota Motor Company, Busch Agricultural Resources, Inc., Waste Management, Inc., and PPG Industries, Inc.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Initiated National Academies of Science National Research Council study, “Status of Pollinators of North America,” which generated over 300 articles

  • Collectively wrote White Paper “Bombus terrestrus”

  • Multiple in-house peer-reviewed publications on pollinator conservation and biology

  • Publications in industry magazines and journals influencing policy and practice

RESEARCH

  • Funded more than 30 research grants for Honey Bee Health

  • Working in key crop production states to study the impacts of conservation

  • Collecting new data on native pollinators in understudies regions, including the Gulf Coast and Northern Plains.

  • Built IABIN PTN Pollinator Data Portal of the Americas

    • Trained approx. 100 people from 20 different counties to digitize pollinator data

SOCIAL MEDIA / WEB BASED OUTREACH

ON-THE-GROUND CHANGE

  • Impacting over 30 million acres of agricultural landscapes through research

  • Influencing over 280,000 acres of managed timberland to support honey bees and native bees.

  • Improving over 25,000,000 kilometers of road for pollinators with the Highway Bees ACT

  • Impacting 300,000 kilometers of utility corridors in the United States through local habitat research with utility partners.

  • Restoring nearly 1200 acres of landscape in Southern California, home of rare and endangered pollinator dependant species such as Santa Susana Tar Plant

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

  • Sponsored U.S. Postal Service Stamp Series

  • Created Pollinator Week – 16 successful years

    • Singed by Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior

    • Endorsed by the U.S. Senate

    • Proclaimed by 48 State Governors

    • P2 Pollinator Week website has had over 40K page views

  • Created the BeeSmart™ School Garden Kit, which is geared towards students in grades 3-6 – over 200 Kits have been distributed over the past 2 years

  • Created 31 Ecoregional Guides

  • Created the BeeSmart™ Gardener App that has had over 7K downloads over the past 8 months

  • Organized annual pollinator posters – approx. 500K distributed all around the world

  • Impacted more than 40K with the BugMobile

  • Created a dozen pollinator fact sheets

  • Created 10 brochures for specific target audiences (pesticides, monarch, Rights-of-Way, etc.)

  • Created and maintained a database of honey bee health research for scientists and conservation biologist

PARTNERSHIPS

  • Partnered with the U.S. Botanic Garden Pollinator Exhibit (1/4 Million Visitors)

  • Held Pollinator Photography Exhibit

  • Hosted 6 Congressional Briefings

  • Fostered NCEAS Meeting on Pollinator Data

  • Helped create and manage the Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus (CP2C)

  • Signed 11 agreements with Federal Agencies that manage or influence 1.5 billion acres of U.S. land

  • Co-sponsored Canada NAPPC/CPI Meeting

  • Co-sponsored Mexico NAPPC Meeting

  • Planted demonstration Gardens with NRCS Plant Materials Center and Public

  • Supported over 100 Forest Service gardens at administrative sites

  • Expanded pollinator reach into Canada with Pollinator Partnership Canada

Why should I get involved?
Pollinator health affects everyone! Worldwide, roughly 1,000 plants grown for food, beverages, fibers, spices, and medicines need to be pollinated by animals in order to produce the goods on which we depend.Foods and beverages produced with the help of pollinators include: apples, blueberries, chocolate, coffee, melons, peaches, potatoes, pumpkins, vanilla, almonds, and tequila. In the United States, pollination by honey bees, native bees, and other insects produces $40 billion worth of products annually.

Worldwide there is disturbing evidence that pollinating animals have suffered from loss of habitat, chemical misuse, introduced and invasive plan and animal species, and diseases and parasites. Many pollinators are federally “listed species,” meaning that there is evidence of their disappearance in natural areas. The U.S. has lost over 50% of its managed honeybee colonies over the past 10 years. A lack of research has hindered our knowledge about the status of pollinators. The E.U. has been so concerned that they have invested over $20 million investigating the status of pollinators in Europe.

Questions or Comments?
Pollinator Partnership
600 Montgomery St. STE 440
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: 415.362.1137
info@pollinator.org


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