EPA Pesticide Program Updates
From EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
www.epa.gov/pesticides
May 19, 2015
In This Update:
White House Announces a National Strategy to Promote
Pollinator Health
On Tuesday, May 19, the White House announced the National Strategy to Promote Pollinator Health.
The strategy released today and its accompanying Pollinator Research Action Plan outline needs and
priority actions to better understand pollinator losses, improve pollinator health, and to enhance
pollinator habitat.
The strategy’s broad-reaching goals are to:
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Restore colony health to sustainable levels by 2025.
Increase Eastern monarch butterfly populations to 225 million butterflies by year 2020.
Restore or enhance seven million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years.
For more information:
White House blog announcing the National Strategy to Promote Pollinator Health
Read the National Strategy to Promote Pollinator Health
Read about EPA’s role in the national strategy and EPA's actions to protect pollinators
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