Endangered Bees Need Help
This fuzzy teddy bear of a bee 🐝 is the American bumblebee.
This highly adaptable insect once thrived from coast to coast, providing essential pollination service to wild plants and crops across 47 states. But due to threats including habitat loss, widespread pesticide use, climate change and disease, it has disappeared from eight states and declined throughout nearly all of its range.
The decline of this once-common native pollinator is alarming and heartbreaking — and a harbinger of massive biodiversity loss across the country.
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About the Center:
The Center for Biological Diversity is a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. At the Center, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.
We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.
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