Pollinators
In a major victory for local residents and wildlife, the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) issued an emergency order to stop wastewater discharge by an ethanol plant that is processing pesticide-treated seed. For over two years, residents of Mead have reported mysterious odors and strange illnesses in people and pets. Bees and other wildlife have also suffered. This has been linked to high levels of pesticide contamination from the ethanol plant.
The Xerces Society, Center for Food Safety, and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, announced they are appealing a November 2020 decision by the Sacramento County Superior Court that determined that the California Fish and Game Commission lacks authority to list four threatened bumble bee species as candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act.
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Eleven articles published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers the most comprehensive look to date at the topic of insect decline and the ramifications of losing diversity, abundance and biomass of insects. Scott Black, Executive Director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, is a coauthor on "Eight Simple Actions that Individuals can Take to Save Insects from Global Declines."
As the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to determine whether to renew dicamba product registrations for the 2021 growing season, a new report details how the herbicides pose serious threats to wild plants and the wildlife that depend upon them. The report from the National Wildlife Federation, Prairie Rivers Network and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Drifting Toward Disaster: How Dicamba Herbicides are Harming Cultivated and Wild Landscapes, reviews the state of the science on the potential far-reaching impacts of dicamba use.
In response to a petition filed by the Xerces Society in 2012, today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized listing the island marble butterfly as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act and designated critical habitat.
Häagen-Dazs just became better for bees and other pollinators, as the brand announced the release of four Bee Better Certified ice cream flavors. The certification, launched by the nonprofit Xerces Society, identifies farms and food ingredients that meet a rigorous standard for bee protection.
The Xerces Society, Defenders of Wildlife, and Center for Food Safety are taking action to protect four species of bumble bees under the California Endangered Species Act.
The Xerces Society and the late Dr. Robbin Thorp, Professor Emeritus at University of California–Davis, formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Franklin’s bumble bee in 2010.
New paper published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice details why we need to take greater action to curb the global decline in insects.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln partners with national nonprofit to launch statewide effort to conserve Nebraska’s pollinators.
California Fish and Game Commission vote comes in the wake of United Nations report finding that one million species are at risk of global extinction.
Population of monarchs overwintering in California at lowest level ever recorded.
Conservation and food safety groups filed a petition with the California Fish and Game Commission to list four species of native bumble bees—western bumble bee, Franklin’s bumble bee, Crotch’s bumble bee and the Suckley cuckoo bumble bee—as Endangered under California’s Endangered Species Act.
Ground-breaking conservation initiative to become part of the Xerces Society, ensuring a bright future for nationwide network of bee-friendly communities and campuses.
A new guide to protecting the monarch butterfly from the Pacific to the Rockies.
More than 15 years after the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation initially submitted a petition asking for federal protection for the island marble, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced today that the butterfly warrants protection as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
Bee Better Certified is the only third-party food and farming certification program in the world focused specifically on pollinator conservation.
June 20, 2017—A new certification program enables farmers to show consumers they are farming in ways that benefit bees. The Bee Better CertifiedTM program is launched by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, in partnership with Oregon Tilth. The development of Bee Better Certified was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
An extensive review of bumble bee studies and surveys from across the U.S. show that three formerly common bumble bee species are experiencing steep declines. The report compiled information from more than three dozen scientists and citizen monitors and found that populations of the rusty-patched, yellowbanded and western bumble bee have all sharply dropped in the last decade.
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