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The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) is an organization of academics, government officials, policy makers, and industry stakeholders working towards pollinator conservation in North America. NAPPC works in coordination with local, national, and international pollinator protection plans that focus on species, genera, families, or classes of animals. The campaign coordinates with existing projects that address pollinator habitats or migratory corridors. Such plans include Bat Conservation International’s Management Plan, the Plant Conservation Alliance’s Plan, and the São Paulo Declaration on Pollinators (). NAPPC complements these and other pollinator conservation efforts in that it focuses on pollinator protection in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and addresses species including invertebrates, birds, and mammals. NAPPC coordinates with existing pollinator protection plans to avoid duplication, use resources effectively and replicate proposals in new venues. The NAPPC Action Plan builds on scientific research concerning pollinators and pollinator habitats and promotes and supports pollinator research. ==Pollinators in peril== Possible declines in the health and population of pollinators pose a threat to the integrity of biodiversity, to global food webs, and to human health. Factors which could contribute to declines include: * improper use of pesticides and herbicides, * habitat fragmentation, * loss and degradation causing a reduction of food sources and sites for mating, nesting, roosting, and migration, * aggressive competition from non-native species, * disease, predators, and parasites, * climate change, * lack of floral diversity. The importance of pollinator services to ecosystem and economic health is well documented (〔Sobeich and Savignano, 2000〕). Animal pollinators are needed for the reproduction of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops(〔Buchmann and Nabhan, 1996〕〔Free, 1970 ''in'' Tepedino 1979〕〔McGregor, 1976 ''in'' Tepedino, 1993〕) Domestic honeybees pollinate approximately $10 billion worth of crops in the U.S. each year.〔Watanabe, 1994〕 Bee poisonings from pesticides result in annual losses of $14.3 million.〔Pimental et al., 1992 ''in'' Ingram et al., 1996〕 Pollinators support biodiversity, as there is a positive correlation between plant diversity and pollinator diversity (〔Heithaus, 1974 ''in'' Tepedino, 1979〕〔Moldenke, 1975 ''in'' Tepedino, 1979〕〔del Moral and Standley, 1979 ''in'' Tepedino, 1979〕). The elimination, replacement or reduction of a pollinator may result in the decline of a plant species, which in turn may affect plant abundance, and hence community dynamics (〔Tepedino, 1979〕〔Buchmann and Nabhan, 1966〕〔USEPA, 1998〕) and impact wild animals and humans that depend on those plants (〔Buchhmann and Nabhan, 1996〕〔Kevan, 1977 ''in'' Allen-Wardell et al., 1998〕). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North American Pollinator Protection Campaign」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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