{"id":38749,"date":"2025-06-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=38749"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:27:58","slug":"national-pollinator-week-2025-kicks-off-with-a-week-of-activities-and-actions-june-16-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2025\/06\/national-pollinator-week-2025-kicks-off-with-a-week-of-activities-and-actions-june-16-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pollinator Week 2025 Kicks Off with a Week of Activities and Actions\u2014June 16-22, 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"

***Featured Art Page submissions for National Pollinator Week, highlighted with the gratitude of Beyond Pesticides: Jesse from Livermore, CA: “Honeybee Pollinating Citrus Blossom”; Yumi from New York, NY: “Birds and the Bees”; Gretchen from Helena, MT: “Butterflies”; Janet from Concord, MA: “Beneath the Big Dipper”; and Trix from Petersburg, NY: “Downy Woodpecker.”<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>Beyond Pesticides<\/span><\/i>, June 16, 2025) Every year, Beyond Pesticides announces National Pollinator Week to remind eaters of food, gardeners, farmers, communities (including park districts to school districts), civic organizations, responsible corporations, policy makers, and legislators that there are actions that can be taken that are transformative. All the opportunities for action to protect pollinators, and the ecosystems that are critical to their survival, can collectively be transformational in eliminating toxic pesticides that are major contributors to the collapse of biodiversity. This is why Beyond Pesticides starts most discussions and strategic actions for meaningful pollinator and biodiversity protection with the transition to practicing and supporting organic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In launching National Pollinator Week, <\/span>Beyond Pesticides makes suggestions<\/span><\/b><\/a> for individual actions to increase efforts to think and act holistically to protect the environment that supports pollinators. The impact that people have starts with grocery store purchases and the management of gardens, parks, playing fields, and public lands. The introduction of pesticides into our food supply and managed lands has contributed to an unsustainable downward spiral. The good news is that it is now proven that we do not need toxic pesticides to grow food productively and profitably (nor are they required to manage ballfields, parks, and public spaces).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why, in very realistic terms, Beyond Pesticides says that pollinator protection starts with organic practices. Pollinators\u2014bees, butterflies, birds, bats, and other organisms\u2014make a critical contribution to plant health, crop productivity, and the preservation of natural resources, but their existence is threatened by pesticide-contaminated habitats. Throughout the week, Beyond Pesticides will weave together actions that can be taken to promote the health of pollinators. Although these actions can include the establishment of pollinator-friendly plants, the first step is providing a safe place for pollinators to live, eat, reproduce, and take refuge from predators and adverse weather. In this context, pollinator conservation begins with organic management of the environment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In recognition of the importance of pollinators and biodiversity to a healthy environment and healthy people during National Pollinator Week, Beyond Pesticides announces a week of activities and actions! Everything here you can find on our webpage, <\/span><\/i>National Pollinator Week Kicks Off with a Week of Actions<\/span><\/i><\/a>! Check out our daily celebration of unsung Pollinator heroes as well!\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n