What you can say when marketing organic 2020 - Flipbook - Page 20
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BETTER FOR
WILDLIFE
The importance of pollinators
• 76% of globally important commercial crops
depend on insect pollination118
• Three quarters of food crops depend
on pollinators119
• 1 in 3 mouthfuls of food depends on pollinators120
• Without pollinators we wouldn’t have potatoes,
strawberries, tomatoes, coffee, chocolate or
cotton121
• We get 90% of our Vitamin C, the majority of
Vitamin A, folic acid, and lots of important
antioxidants from plants that rely on
animal pollination122
• The decline of pollinators is a threat to
human nutrition123
• Bees are important pollinators but so are flies,
beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds,
and bats124
WHAT DO POLLINATORS DO?
Bees and other insects drink the
sweet nectar of flowers. As they move
between flowers, they transfer pollen
which fertilises the plant, enabling it to
produce fruit and seeds.
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