[PCA] NEWS: White House Announces Presidential Memorandum for Pollinators

Fri Jun 20 15:12:55 CDT 2014

Haagen-Dazs uses honey in some of its ice cream and has worked with the
Pollinator Partnership. The company has provided more than a million
dollars for bee research. You can read more about it here:
http://www.haagendazs.us/learn/honeybees/ or just google it for additional
articles.

Olivia

*Olivia Kwong*

CPC/PCA

http://www.blm.gov/pca

okwong at blm.gov

202-912-7232

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Robert Layton Beyfuss <rlb14 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

>  Gee, I did not know that Haagen Dazs ice cream was bee pollinated!
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> There will be an informational break following the Congressional Briefing
> featuring *Burt’s Bees Lip Balm* and *Häagen Dazs* ice cream – perfect
> pollinated products to cap Pollinator Week in the Capitol,
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> *From:* native-plants [mailto:
> native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] *On Behalf Of *Kwong,
> Olivia
> *Sent:* Friday, June 20, 2014 3:33 PM
> *To:* native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org
> *Subject:* [PCA] NEWS: White House Announces Presidential Memorandum for
> Pollinators
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Tom Van Arsdall* <tva at pollinator.org>
> Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:40 PM
> Subject: [Pollinator] White House Announces Presidential Memorandum for
> Pollinators
> To: pollinator at nappc.org
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>   [image: MEDIA RELEASE][image: Pollinator_notag]
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> *June 20, 2014*
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> *For Immediate Release*
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>               Tom Van Arsdall  TVA at pollinator.org 703.509.4746
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>            Laurie Davies Adams LDA at pollinator.org 415.362.1137
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>  *Pollinator Week 2014 Culminates in Presidential Memorandum*
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> *Leaders across the Nation Mobilize for Pollinators*
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> The *White House* today announced the first comprehensive pollinator
> initiative ever created across the federal government.  This morning *President
> Barrack Obama* signed a *Presidential* *Memorandum* to bring federal
> actions to the pollinator issue that will provide increased collaboration,
> solid science, practical management, and essential research goals. The
> Presidential Memorandum works within existing budgets, and through
> coordinated efforts has the potential to increase efficiencies and
> effectiveness. The *Pollinator Partnership *acted as a resource to the
> White House for many months as the White House Executive Office brought
> stakeholders together and canvassed federal departments and agencies. Among
> the directives in the memorandum are actions increasing forage on federal
> lands, assessing the effects of pesticides including neonicotinoids,
> including native seeds in post-fire restoration, landscaping federal
> facilities for pollinators, educating the public about pollinators, and
> more. All details are at http://pollinator.org/PR_whitehouse.htm.
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> For the Pollinator Partnership, the memorandum is the result of a nearly
> 20-year campaign to increase awareness and action for pollinators and marks
> a new dawn of wise land management across the country. The Presidential
> Memorandum is a first for comprehensive terrestrial conservation and for
> pollinators – it demonstrates real leadership on the part of the President
> and his science team.  Importantly, President Obama is joined in supporting
> pollinators by the bi-partisan list of * 45 governors* who have signed
> proclamations for *National Pollinator Week* supported by millions of
> constituents across the country who care about this issue. *Pollinator
> Partnership’s Executive Director*, *Laurie Davies Adams*, noted “This
> Presidential action shows visionary leadership and offers practical
> measures that will help pollinators now; it is a triumph for people, plants
> and pollinators.”
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> Details about the Presidential Memorandum are being shared today at a
> Pollinator Briefing in Washington, DC organized by the Pollinator
> Partnership in collaboration with the *Congressional Pollinator
> Protection Caucus (CP2C)* headed by of *Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) *and *Rep.
> Jeff Denham (R-CA), co-chairs *of *CP2C.  *The briefing (3 PM, 1310
> Longworth House Office Building) features* Dr. Anne Kinsinger, US
> Geological Survey, Earl Stewart, U.S. Forest Service *and Laurie Davies
> Adams, discussing the Presidential Memorandum and public-private efforts
> to support pollinators.  Adams introduced the newly-formed *Business for
> Bees*, a collaboration to support pollinators that brings “business
> know-how” to cooperative conservation and includes *Toyota North America,
> the Boeing Company, General Mills, Greif, Burt’s Bees, * among others.
> See http://pollinator.org/bizforbees.htm for details.
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> Also discussed at the briefing will be the *Highways BEE Act *(
> www.pollinator.org/BEEAct.htm), introduced by Reps. Denham and Hastings
> will be discussed. The briefing will connect hundreds of Congressional
> staff members and help them understand and recognize the importance of
> pollinators to our world.  They will hear first-hand about the efforts that
> the federal government has planned.
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> There will be an informational break following the Congressional Briefing
> featuring *Burt’s Bees Lip Balm* and *Häagen Dazs* ice cream – perfect
> pollinated products to cap Pollinator Week in the Capitol, where the
> nation’s leaders are responding to the needs of pollinators with
> comprehensive and meaningful actions.
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> *Pollinator Week* has grown exponentially in scope each year since its
> inception in 2007.  This year, *U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom
> Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, and 45 governors*
> designated June 16-22 through proclamations—the most ever—as a week to
> celebrate and protect the nation’s pollinating animals.  A complete list
> and scanned versions of the proclamations are available at
> http://pollinator.org/npw_events.htm).  “It is really satisfying to see
> how many individuals in every state got involved in this project,” commented*
> Kelly Rourke* of the *Pollinator Partnership*, who coordinated the
> campaign to engage states.
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> Pollinators, like bees, butterflies, birds and other animals, bring us one
> in every three bites of food and maintain our environment. Pollinators are
> responsible for about $16 billion in U.S. agricultural production and
> world-wide human food production at $190 billion. Pollinators form the
> underpinning of a healthy and sustainable future for food and the
> environment, but have shown disturbing signs of decline.
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> Efforts during Pollinator Week, and indeed year-round, are working to
> reverse and prevent pollinator declines. * Sunny Boyd*, of the *Pollinator
> Partnership *remarked “Our steady drumbeat through the years has brought
> understanding and commitment across the country on a local as well as a
> national level. Pollinator Week helps to increase the discussion of all the
> issues, from community beekeeping regulations to the elimination of the
> impacts of pesticides on pollinators.”
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> *ABOUT THE POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP (P2)*
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> Established in 1997, the Pollinator Partnership is the largest 501(c) 3
> non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the health, protection,
> and conservation of all pollinating animals. Pollinator Partnership’s
> actions for pollinators include education, conservation, restoration,
> policy, and research.  P2’s financial support comes through grants, gifts,
> memberships and donations from any interested party.  Its policies are
> science-based, set by its board of directors, and never influenced by any
> donor.  To make a donation, or for information on events during Pollinator
> Week, visit www.pollinator.org.
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> R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall, Director of Public Affairs
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>    Pollinator Partnership <http://www.pollinator.org/>
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>    Cell:  (703) 509-4746
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>    tva at pollinator.org
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