Did you know that about 200,000 species of pollinators are beneficial insects — such as bees, butterflies, flies, beetles, wasps, ants, and moths — and about 1,000 species are vertebrates such as birds, bats, and small mammals?
Pollinators produce nearly $20 billion worth of products annually in the United States. But climate change, habitat loss, and pesticide use are endangering pollinators; it’s estimated that 40 percent of insect pollinators are threatened or endangered. We rely on pollinators to grow our food — so if they’re in trouble, that means our food is too.
Food & Water Action is protecting pollinators by tackling the most imminent threats to their survival: the use of deadly and poisonous pesticides, factory farms, large-scale single-crop agriculture, and the use of climate-killing fossil fuels.
With you, we will mobilize on every front to protect pollinators: We'll send our policy experts to Congress and send our organizers to demand that local and state officials act to protect the pollinators we all depend on for our food.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Action
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Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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