From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: A fifth of North America's pollinating species at risk of extinction:
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:03:50 -0400
Organization: Sons of Rhodesia
Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new
report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than
one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk
of extinction.
Out of 759 pollinators â animals critical for food production and
healthy ecosystems â studied in Canada, more than 10 per cent were at
some level of risk of extinction, says the study published this week in
the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS.
And of 1,579 pollinators assessed in the United States, 22.5 per cent
were found to be at some level of risk.
The study is the most comprehensive look at North American pollinators
and their conservation status to date, John Klymko, scientist at
Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre in Sackville, N.B., and one of
the co-authors, said in a recent interview.
Commonly known pollinators, which transfer pollen from one flower to
another, are bees, butterflies and moths, Klymko said. But they also
include vertebrates like hummingbirds and bats. âMany plants are reliant
on pollinators in order to reproduce,â he said.
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