Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Fonseca, Alves, Saraiva, Landeiro, Dias Brazilian Pollinators Initiative – Time line
2004/2005. Development of PDF-B of the project financed by GEF and coordinated by FAO,
Conservation and management of pollinators for sustainable Agriculture through an
ecosystem approach.
2005. The project ViNCES – Weblabs on ecosystem services, aimed at developing on line
experiments and data on pollinators (and photosynthesis) was approved by FAPESP.
www.ib/usp/br/vinces. Coordination: A. M. Saraiva, V. L. Imperatriz-Fonseca and M. S.
Buckeridge.
2005. Brazilian Ministry of Environment makes the Brazilian Pollinators Initiative official,
through an inter-ministry designation, representative for civil society.
2005. Second National Stakeholders Meeting of the Brazilian Pollinators Initiative as
part of the FAO Project EP/GLO/301/GEF.
2005. Second Brazilian Field Course on Biology and Ecology of Pollination, by B. F.
Viana (Bahia Federal University) and P. G. Kevan (Guelph University), in Bahia State, Brazil.
2006. VII Encontro sobre abelhas de Ribeirão Preto, with two symposia on Pollinators
and the Brazilian Program coordinated by MMA.
2006. Activities of BPI in the XVI Brazilian Beekeeping Congress and II Brazilian
Congress of Meliponiculture, held in Sergipe, Brazil.
2006. Settlement of Repol, Network of Pollinators from Bahia State, Brazil, supported by
Bahia State Scientific Agency.
2006. IABIN Pollinator Thematic Network project approved by the Organization of the
American States. The consortium led by CoEvolution Institute (L. D. Adams) has Brazilian
partners (University of São Paulo – A. M. Saraiva and V. L. Imperatriz-Fonseca), besides
ITIS (M. Ruggiero) and NBII (L. Sellers). The Brazilian group is responsible for the IT
infrastructure.
2006. Meeting in COP8, side event Pollinators, Curitiba, Brazil.
Publications supported by the Ministry of the Environment: Brazilian References on
Pollination and pollinators; Pollinating bees: the conservation link between nature
and agriculture (revised edition) and Solitary bees and their role in pollination
(reprinted).
Publication supported by FAO and Conservation International-Brazil: Bees as pollinators in
Brazil: assessing the status and suggesting the best practices (Imperatriz-Fonseca et
al., eds.).
2006. Workshop Pollinator Information in the Americas was held in Indaiatuba, SP,
Brazil, as a joint workshop of IABIN and GBIF. Organized by A. M. Saraiva, P. Correa and
the Pollinators Network Thematic (PTN) project colleagues (www.iabin.net ).
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