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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 580 

Recognizing the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture 

in the United States and the value of partnership efforts to increase 

awareness about pollinators and support for protecting and sustaining 

pollinators by designating June 24 through June 30, 2007, as ‘‘National 

Pollinator Week’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 

Mr. CHAMBLISS submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 

agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health 

and agriculture in the United States and the value of 

partnership efforts to increase awareness about pollinators and support for protecting and sustaining pollinators by designating June 24 through June 30, 2007, 

as ‘‘National Pollinator Week’’. 

Whereas bees, butterflies, and other pollinator species have a 

critically important role in agriculture in the United 

States and help to produce a healthy and affordable food 

supply and sustain ecosystem health; 

Whereas pollinators help to produce an estimated 1 out of 

every 3 bites of food consumed in the United States and 

to reproduce at least 80 percent of flowering plants; 


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Whereas commodities produced in partnership with animal 

pollinators generate significant income for agricultural 

producers, with domestic honeybees alone pollinating an 

estimated $14,600,000,000 worth of crops in the United 

States each year produced on more than 2,000,000 acres; 

Whereas it is in the strong economic interest of agricultural 

producers and consumers in the United States to help ensure a healthy, sustainable pollinator population; 

Whereas possible declines in the health and population of pollinators pose what could be a significant threat to global 

food webs, the integrity of biodiversity, and human 

health; 

Whereas the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, managed by the Coevolution Institute, is a tri-national, cooperative conservation, public-private collaboration of individuals from nearly 140 diverse stakeholder 

groups, including concerned landowners and managers, 

conservation and environmental groups, scientists, private 

businesses, and government agencies; and 

Whereas the Pollinator PartnershipTM web site (http:// 

www.pollinator.org) has been created as the source for 

pollinator information: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, 

2 SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF NORTH AMERICAN POLLI3 NATOR APPRECIATION WEEK. 

4 The Senate— 

5 (1) recognizes the partnership role that polli6 nators play in agriculture and healthy ecosystems; 


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1 (2) applauds the cooperative conservation col2 laborative efforts of participants in the North Amer3 ican Pollinator Protection Campaign to increase 

4 awareness about the important role of pollinators 

5 and to build support for protecting and sustaining 

6 pollinators; 

7 (3) designates June 24 through 30, 2007, as 

8 ‘‘National Pollinator Week’’; and 

9 (4) encourages the people of the United States 

10 to observe the week with appropriate ceremonies and 

11 activities. 

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