[PCA] CALL: Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award Nominations

[Olivia Kwong]

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From: Kat McGuire <km at coevolution.org>
Subject: [Pollinator] Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award
Date: 08/27/2007 12:21PM

The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign is currently requesting
nominations for the 2007 Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award.
This award is different from the 2007 Pollinator Advocate Award, for which
NAPPC is also requesting nominations.  The Farmer-Rancher Pollinator
Conservation Award recognizes an individual or family in the farm and ranch
community in the U.S. who has contributed significantly to pollinator
species protection and conservation on working and wild lands.  The
deadline for submissions is Friday, September 14th for both awards.

Please see the attached & appended documents for details and submit 
completed nominations to me.  Please feel free to contact me with any 
questions.

Sincerely,

Kat McGuire
Development and Communication Coordinator
Coevolution Institute
423 Washington St., 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-362-1137
km at coevolution.org
http://www.coevolution.org/
http://www.pollinator.org/
http://www.nappc.org/

The NAPPC/NACD
Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award

The Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award.  This award recognizes 
an individual or family in the farm and ranch community in the U.S. who 
has contributed significantly to pollinator species protection and 
conservation on working and wild lands.  NAPPC and NACD through their 
recognition and appreciation of these individuals and organizations 
encourage their conservation stewardship and hope to catalyze future 
actions on behalf of pollinators through public recognition of the award 
winner.  In selecting the winner, all activities that contribute 
significantly toward pollinator conservation will be considered, including 
but not limited to, "on-the-ground" pollinator conservation best 
management practices, development of conservation partnerships and 
demonstration projects that promote pollinator awareness and conservation.

What is NAPPC?  The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) 
has a six-year history of bringing together scientists, land managers, 
agribusiness, conservation NGO's and private industry in a public-private 
collaboration working on tri-national initiatives to highlight the 
importance and to provide security for North American pollinators.  NAPPC, 
facilitated by the Coevolution Institute (CoE), represents the North 
American collaborative effort to increase knowledge, raise awareness, 
investigate best practices and build cooperative ventures to ensure the 
stability and sustainability of pollinators and flowering plants for food, 
forests, flowers and farms.

Pollinating species are influential in the production of an estimated $40 
billion in products in the United States alone.  Eighty percent of the 
food plant species worldwide depend on pollination by animals, almost all 
of which are insects.  Estimates of the impact of pollinators on our food 
supply range as high as one out of every three mouthfuls of food we eat, 
and of the beverages we drink.  More than half of the world's diet of fats 
and oils comes from oilseed crops, many of which are pollinated by 
animals, including cotton, oil palm, canola and sunflowers.

What is NACD?  The National Association of Conservation Districts is the 
nonprofit organization that represents the nation's 3,000 conservation 
districts and 17,000 men and women who serve on their governing boards. 
Conservation districts are local units of government established under 
state law to carry out natural resource management programs at the local 
level. Districts work with more than 2.5 million cooperating landowners 
and operators to help them manage and protect land and water resources on 
nearly 98 percent of the private lands in the United States.  As the 
national voice for all conservation districts, NACD supports voluntary, 
incentive-driven natural resource conservation programs that benefit all 
citizens.  The association's philosophy is that conservation decisions 
should be made by local people with technical and funding assistance from 
federal, state and local governments and the private sector. The 
association's programs and activities aim to advance the resource 
conservation cause of local districts and the millions of cooperating 
landowners and land managers they serve.

Importance of the NAPPC/NACD Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award.
The award is a celebration of a growing movement in U.S. agriculture to 
integrate positive conservation efforts into farm and ranch operations. 
By acknowledging the critical and yet often invisible contributions of 
bees, butterflies, bats, birds, beetle and other animals, the award 
recipient is leading by example in helping to pave the way for a healthy 
and sustainable conservation movement.

The Award Design.  Designed by world renowned artist James Randolph, whose 
work can be seen in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's tribute to 
Challenger and in galleries and museums around the continent, 
www.jamesrandolf.com, the handsome desk-sized glass portrait of 
pollinators is meant to catch the light, and remind all of the critical 
and ethereal work of the pollinating animals.
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