Status of Pollinators in North America (2007)
Chapter: F Meetings and Conferences on Pollinator Issues 1979-2006
F
Meetings and Conferences on Pollinator Issues 1979–2006
Event | Sponsor | Location | Date | Publication |
Pesticide–Pollinator Interactions | National Research Council Canada | Toronto, Ont. | 1979–1980 | NRCC, 1981 |
Alternative Pollinators for Ontario’s Crops |
| Guelph, Ont. | April 12, 1986 | Proceedings of theEntomological Society of Ontario, 118 (1988) |
National Workshop on Bee and Pollination Research | Agriculture Canada | Winnipeg, Man. | April 4–5, 1989 | Agriculture Canada |
International Workshop on Non-Apis Bees | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Logan, Utah | Aug. 10–13, 1992 |
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Tri-National Forgotten Pollinators Campaign | Arizona–Tucson Desert Museum | Phoenix, Ariz. | 1995–1999 | Various, including Buchmann and Nabhan, 1996 |
Conservation of Bees | International Bee Research Association; Linnaean Society | United Kingdom | April 1995 | Matheson et al., 1996 |
Bees and Crop Pollination—Crisis, Crossroads, Conservation | Entomological Society of America | Burlington, Vt. | Feb. 26, 1997 | Stubbs and Drummond, 2001 |
Event | Sponsor | Location | Date | Publication |
Pollinators and Mother Earth: Global Perspectives in Productivity, Diversity, and Behavior | Entomological Society of Canada | Edmonton, Alta. | Oct. 4–8, 1997 | None |
For Non-Native Crops, Whence Pollinators of the Future? | Entomological Society of America | Las Vegas, Nev. | Nov. 8–12, 1998 | Strickler and Cane, 2003 |
Saving America’s Pollinators | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Coevolution Institute, National Zoological Park | Washington, D.C. | June 18, 1998 | None |
Pollinating Bees: The Conservation Link Between Agriculture and Nature | Brazilian Ministry of Environment | São Paulo, Brazil | Oct. 7–9, 1998 | Kevan et al., 2002 |
Workshop on Declining Pollinators | U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Interior | Logan, Utah | May 27–28, 1999 | USGS/BRD/ITR-2000-0007 |
Causes and Extent of Declines Among Native Invertebrate Pollinators: Detection, Evidence and Consequences | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis | Santa Barbara, Calif. | October 1999 | Conservation Ecology 5 (2001) |
North American Pollinator Protection Campaign | Coevolution Institute | Washington, D.C., and area | Annually since 2000 | None, but see http://www.nappc.org |
International Congress of Entomology |
| Foz Iguazu, Brazil | 2000 | None |
National Conference on Pollination Ecology and Its Contribution to Conservation and Biodiversity |
| Andhra University, India | Feb. 22–24, 2000 | Souvenir and abstracts published by Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India |
FAO International Pollinators Initiative, Plan of Action | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization | Rome, Italy | Nov. 14–16, 2000 |
Event | Sponsor | Location | Date | Publication |
Protecting and Promoting Our Pollinators | Entomological Society of Quebec, Entomological Society of Canada, Entomological Society of America | Montreal, Que. | Dec. 3–6, 2000 | None |
Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems: Convention on Biological Diversity |
| Montreal, Que. | Nov. 8–10, 2001 | |
First Meeting of the African Pollinators Initiative |
| Nairobi, Kenya | Feb. 18–22, 2002 | Web site |
Pollinators Workshop |
| Mabula, South Africa | June 27–29, 2003 | Eardley et al., 2006 |
São Paulo Declaration on Pollinators + 5 Forum |
| São Paulo, Brazil | Oct. 27–30, 1998 | Kevan and Imperatriz-Fonseca, 2002 |
International Workshop on Solitary Bees and their Role in Pollination |
| Beberibe, Ceará, Brazil | April 26–29, 2004 | Freitas and Pereira, 2004 |
United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, Conference of the Parties, General Meeting 8 |
| Curitiba, Brazil | March 2006 | Pollinators and Pollination: A Resource Book for Policy and Practice |
