Bees and other pollinators are essential to maintaining ecosystems across the nation and around the world. Pollination sustains plants that provide food and shelter for people and wildlife, medicines for people and animals, and diverse and healthy landscapes, from forests to deserts. About one in three bites of food we eat depends on pollinators, and native bees alone provide over $5 billion in crop pollination services every year in the U.S.
Unfortunately, too many native pollinator populations are in decline. Bumble bees are also declining nationwide, and in 2017 the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee(Bombus affinis) was listed as federally endangered.
Learn more at
https://defenders.org/wildlife/pollinators
Defenders Of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America.
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