Collaborating to Solve a Crisis: The Story of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign

Host: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Panelists:
Kelly Rourke - Director of Programs and Operations, Pollinator Partnership
David Inouye - Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
Kimberly Winter - NatureWatch National Program Manager, U.S. Forest Service
Gary Krupnick - Head of the Plant Conservation Unit, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Description: As the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) enters its 20th year of collaborative conservation, it will share its successful model for continental, multilingual, cross-taxon advocacy with other groups. NAPPC's mission is to promote the health of pollinators in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. This session will explore NAPPC’s concept, inception, and outcomes. We will discuss how objectives were often achieved with little funding and a lot of collaboration, and reveal the impact these accomplishments have had on pollinators, policy, and public health, and what you can do to help pollinators.