We’re smitten by sharing 2024 Pollinator Protectors marketing campaign success tales with you. What does Pollinator Protectors do, and who advantages from this program? By Pollinator Protectors, ESC creates native habitat for pollinators and gives outreach and training experiences for communities. Pollinator Protectors allocates small grants for native plant materials and associated provides, enabling our companions to create habitat and supply instructional occasions. These initiatives profit imperiled native pollinating species, native vegetation, and communities.
Because the origin of Pollinator Protectors in 2016 with milkweed plantings in simply 4 states, the marketing campaign has grown to incorporate plantings in 26 US states and several other initiatives in Mexico. In 2024, we’re spotlighting our work in Arizona, California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, in a brand new infographic.
Let’s dive into extra element in Arizona, the place we’ve emphasised imperiled Monarch butterfly and pollinating bat species. To help migratory pollinators, ESC is focussing on a neighborhood simply 11 miles from the US-Mexico border: Arivaca, Arizona. So far, we’ve funded 12 native plantings for pollinators in Arivaca, making a native plant hall in partnership with the Arivaca Pollinator Pathway Mission. In cooperation with our member organizations together with Bat Conservation Worldwide, Lobos of the SW, and others, ESC funded the creation of two murals in Arivaca, by Tohono O’odham artist Paul ‘Nox’ Pablo. These murals are in a excessive visibility location beside an agave planting for nectivorous bats and different daytime and nighttime pollinating species. The mural is on the neighborhood dance corridor, the place conservation programming and shows happen, together with a 2024 speak by ESC’s Inventive Engagement Director, Jeanne Dodds, about native Arizona pollinators and plant conservation.
In the previous few months of 2024, we’re finishing initiatives in Washington, DC, Idaho, and Washington State. These embrace neighborhood plantings for pollinator corridors with our accomplice DC Natives, a high-visibility relaxation space planting with instructional signage, close to the Snake River on the Idaho border, and native pollinator plantings at a youth backyard and an city Seattle farm.
To help these impactful community-led initiatives creating habitat for native pollinators and vegetation, please go to our Pollinator Protectors donation web page. Your help makes our initiatives possible- thanks!
