{"id":19853,"date":"2016-04-12T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19853"},"modified":"2016-04-12T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:04:37","slug":"beyond-honeybees-pollinator-friendly-farming-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19853","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds. More than three-quarters of the\u00a0fruits, vegetables, and nuts<\/a>\u00a0we eat rely on pollinators like honeybees.\u00a0The phenomenon known as\u00a0Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)<\/a>\u00a0has raised concerns about honeybees over the last decade, and although\u00a0CCD is no longer the primary worry<\/a>, honeybee losses continue to\u00a0rise.<\/p>\n

But many other pollinators are also in peril.\u00a0A timely new report from the United Nations<\/a>shows troubling trends that threaten the future of pollinators and our food supply. Human activities are largely responsible\u2014and the solutions are also in our\u00a0power.<\/p>\n

According to the report, pollinators worldwide are being driven to extinction by habitat destruction and degradation, intensive agriculture, pesticide use, pollution, invasive alien species, pathogens, and climate change. In some regions, 40% of invertebrate pollinators, particularly bees and butterflies, are endangered. More than 16% of vertebrate pollinators, like bats and birds, are also\u00a0threatened.<\/p>\n

The UN report\u2019s solutions to the crisis include protecting natural habitats, restoring native vegetation, and planting flower corridors to connect wild areas. Reducing pesticide use and using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can also increase the abundance and diversity of pollinators. Researchers and farmers in California have been already working together to create diverse landscapes where crucial pollinator populations can\u00a0thrive.<\/p>\n

Protecting\u00a0Pollinators<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As honeybees face increasing threats, native bees provide new hope for farmers who rely on pollinators for crop production. Since 2009,\u00a0Frog Hollow Farm<\/a>, a 143-acre organic fruit farm in Brentwood, has been partnering with the\u00a0UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab<\/a>\u00a0and the USDA Natural Resource and Conservation Service to promote native bees in agricultural\u00a0areas.<\/p>\n

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Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds. More than three-quarters of the\u00a0fruits, vegetables, and nuts\u00a0we eat rely on pollinators like honeybees.\u00a0The phenomenon known as\u00a0Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)\u00a0has raised concerns about honeybees over the last decade, and although\u00a0CCD is no longer the primary worry, honeybee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[299,1912,5612,13435,13436,8486],"class_list":["post-19853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-farming","tag-food-production","tag-honeybees","tag-janet-mcgarry","tag-pollinator-friendly-farming","tag-pollinators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19855,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853\/revisions\/19855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}