Protecting Pollinators: How to Save the Creatures That Feed Our World

Pollinators are essential for our food supply, but half of them are threatened. Protecting Pollinators explores why the statistics are so dire and how they can be reversed. Efforts include reducing pesticides, creating butterfly highways, planting native flowers, and monitoring migration. Without pollinators, the world would be a duller, blander place.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 16 April 2019
Publisher: Island Press

Pollinators are essential for our food supply, yet half of the 200,000 species are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third, and the population of butterflies has declined 31 percent. Protecting Pollinators explores why the statistics have become so dire and how they can be reversed. Jodi Helmer breaks down the latest science on environmental threats and takes readers inside the most promising conservation initiatives. Efforts include farmers reducing pesticides, cities creating butterfly highways, volunteers ripping up invasive plants, gardeners planting native flowers, and citizen scientists monitoring migration. Along with inspiring stories of revival and lessons from failed projects, readers will find practical tips to get involved. They will also be reminded of the magic of pollinators, not only the iconic monarch and dainty hummingbird, but the drab hawk moth and homely bats that are just as essential. Without pollinators, the world would be a duller, blander place. Helmer shows how we can make sure they are always fluttering, soaring, and buzzing around us.

Weight: 336g
Dimension: 156 x 232 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781610919364
Edition number: None ed.