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Pollinator Research and Protection
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An important environmental issue in Arizona and elsewhere is the decline of native species of insects, birds, and bats that act to pollinate plants. Loss of habitat, fragmentation of plant life, and poisonings are causing reductions in these species. For more information, see the resources and stories below.

Migratory Pollinators and Their Corridors: Conservation Across Borders
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's research collaboration on four species of migratory pollinators.

Gardening for Pollinators
A book available from the Desert Museum Press

The Bee Works
This site includes ideas and products for attracting dwindling native bees to your garden.

The Partners for Pollination Network Releases Pollinator Corridors Study
A case study, “Nectar Trails for Pollinators: Designing Corridors for Conservation - Restoring Connectivity for Migrant Wildlife Through Wildlands and Adjacent Croplands To Ensure ‘Nature’s Services,’ “ edited by Gary Paul Nabham and Jim Donovan, was released in June. Looking at the habitat use by 32 migratory avian pollinators (including 12 hummingbirds), the White-Lined Spinx Moth, the Tobacco Hornworm, the Monarch Butterfly, and Lesser Long-Nosed and Long-Tongued Bats, Río Santa Cruz, a binational watershed in Sonora, Mexico and Arizona, which drains the Gila and Colorado rivers, certain conclusions were reached. Among them were the following:

• Agricultural habitats, if managed adaptively, can be functional elements of migratory corridors between larger protected areas of wildlands;

• Because of the healthy wildlands habitats adjacent to vegetable fields, sufficient numbers of native wildlife could be recruited to ensure adequate pollination of squashes, pumpkins, and other vegetables;

• Ecological restoration of on-farm wildlands habitats may provide indirect economic benefits to farmers by lending further stability to wild pollinator populations.

A copy of the study can be found in the TAS library.

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This page was updated on 12/28/05