SPRING/SUMMER 2024
Aqua Lane Park Conservation Site Click HERE
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SPECIAL APPEAL NOTICE
The Pollinator Conservation Association is a New York State registered not for profit (501(c)(3) and can accept tax-deductable donations from you. This holiday season, we need your help, to continue our many educational, advocacy oriented, and in the ground projects. Please consider a donation by clicking on the button to the right. You can pay by an existing Paypal account or pay by credit card, or mail a check to our P.O Box.
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Mailing Address:
Pollinator Conservation Association 1902 Ridge Road #415 West Seneca N.Y. 14224 |
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thysbe) on beebalm.
The PCA provides pollinator and habitat consultation and design, and does in the ground habitat sites. Check out some of our places. POLLINATOR PLACES
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View all of our Citizen Science Projects CLICK HERE
2021-22 have been challenging covid centric years for all of us, and that includes conservation organizations such as the Pollinator Conservation Association. The good news is that we have been able to do good work on a variety of projects. These include conservation and habitat installations, design, and educational work.
VIDEO FROM SOME OF OUR SITES
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WEST RIVER PARKWAY GRAND ISLAND N.Y. OCTOBER 2022
TAGGING MONARCH BUTTERFLIES WITH SUNY-BUFFALO STUDENTS. BUFFALO OUTER HARBOR SEPTEMBER 2022
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AQUA LANE PARK, TOWN OF TONAWANDA N.Y. RIVER ROAD AND NIAGARA RIVER. SEPTEMBER 2022
THERMODYNAMIC COMPOST INSTALLATION AQUA LANE PARK TOWN OF TONAWANDA JANUARY 2022
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2020-2022 PHOTOS
Beach Path Installation - Buffalo Harbor State Park - May 2021 |
Beach Path Installation - Buffalo Harbor State Park - November 2021 |
West River Parkway, Grand Island - New York - January 2021 |
West River Parkway, Grand Island - New York - July 2021 |
Aqua Lane Park, Niagara River, Town of Tonawanda September 2022
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West River Parkway, Grand Island October 2022
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Thank-You Emergent Productions for producing a profile of the PCA and our Monarch Butterfly work.
Welcome to the
Pollinator Conservation Association
The Pollinator Conservation Association is a New York registered not for profit (501(c)(3). We are based in Western New York, in the Great Lakes region of North America. Our work is to promote conservation and conservation planning through the lens of pollinator conservation. We achieve this through project evaluation, assessments, community engagement, citizen science, education about native pollinators, native habitat, native plant communities, and best practices recommendations. We consult with not for profits, government agencies, the public, and the private sector. We develop, evaluate, and provide consultation services for projects to help restore and conserve biodiversity. We consider pollinator conservation to be a gateway for wide ranging conservation strategies. Our clients include public agencies including the Niagara River Greenway, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, local government agencies, a variety of not for profit organizations and community based groups. We also work with the private sector, especially with Solar Installations. For more information CLICK HERE.
Check Out our Customizable Site Evaluation Tool!
It is (always) time to plan and start to develop pollinator conservation sites. The Pollinator Conservation Association offers professional consultation on site evaluation, design, installation, management ,and best practices. We use a customizable Site and Project Evaluation Tool. For more on our services go to our Best Practices page: CLICK HERE |
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NEW Spring 2020: Check out our Video Page. Conversations to help us stay connected, and beautiful nature videos
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The Niagara River Greenway Pollinator Partnership
The Niagara Greenway Commission was established to create a network of public greenspaces and multiuse trails extending from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario along the Niagara River.
In 2018 the PCA and the Greenway Commission partnered to create the Greenway Pollinator Partnership. The conceptual basis of the partnership is to create an information and advocacy network of interested partners in the public and private sector of the Niagara River Greenway and its associated watersheds. The group is organizing a blueprint of sites and potential sites, and designing short and long term planning and conservation strategies for the sites, the region, and the partnership. The Niagara Greenway Pollinator Partnership is created by the Pollinator Conservation Association in partnership with the Niagara River Greenway Riparian Habitat Restoration Roundtable. The purpose of this partnership is to inform strategic planning on priority topics and to encourage conservation strategies and goals through the lens of conservation, collaboration and networking. Our mission is to identify conservation sites within the Greenway; advocate for best practices regarding planning, design, installation and maintenance of site; advocating for native pollinator education strategies; and serving as a clearing house for native pollinator information and outreach. For More Info CLICK HERE Niagara Greenway Commission www.niagararivergreenway.com 
Making Room- The Pollinator Conservation Association advocates places for humans and pollinators to share -including Buffalo's Outer Harbor where we are working to restore natural and pollinator habitat
Incredible Autumn 2018 Monarch Migration. Video above shows monarchs at Times Beach Nature Preserve in Buffalo, New York. To learn more about this years Monarch butterfly journey south CLICK HERE
The Buffalo News profiles the Pollinator Conservation Association July 6, 2018
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Please Check Out our Project Websites and Friends
www.birdsontheniagara.orgThe Pollinator Conservation Association is a proud founding partner of the Birds on The Niagara International Winter Bird Celebration. The event began in 2018 and turned international in February 2020. Please visit our shared website for more information. http://www.birdsontheniagara.org/
www.friendsoftimesbeachnp.org
www.ourouterharbor.orgPOLLINATOR PLACESThe PCA is managing the installation and maintenance of two conservation sites with Greenway Funding. Click the links below to go to the location pages.
New Spring 2019
Best Management Practices for Pollinator Conservation
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See All of Our Partners by
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Doug Tallamy in Buffalo
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DOCUMENT
New York State Pollinator Protection Plan (2016) DOCUMENT
NEW May 2018 Native Bees of Toronto |
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What is the Pollinator Conservation Association?
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WHAT WE DO
Collaboration, Site Evaluation, Survey, Project Development, Conseervation, and Community Engagement
We are engaged in both identifying sites and regional pollinator conservation strategies and developing specific locations and opportunities for pollinator conservation. This includes an ongoing development strategy for Pollinator Conservation in the Niagara River Greenway, as well as the targeting of specific conservation sites and opportunities. We work with the private sector, government, not-for- profits, and private land and homeowners. If you have a site that you would like us to consider, please contact us. More info on this Page.
CONSULTING
The PCA has a team of professionals that includes botanists, ecologists, entomologists, landscape designers, and maintenance professionals that can help turn almost any place of any size into Pollinator Conservation Sites. For more information email: greenwatch100@ gmail.com
LEARNING
Bee Basics
Introduction to Native Bees USDA/Pollinator Partnership 
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ProgrammingWe have and are continuing to develop programming including multi-media and video presentations, lectures, workshops, and a variety of social media projects that promote Pollinator Conservation for the general public, government, not-for-profits, schools, and management and maintenance professionals
Citizen ScienceCitizen Science is an opportunity for everyone to participate in building and sharing a knowledge base about pollinators, habitats, and the biodiversity that powers our living planet. We are working with educational institutions to design Pollinator Friendly Campuses.
We are developing this website as a portal to knowledge about pollinator conservation and specific site strategies. The PCA embraces a variety of citizen science projects including eBird and the Last Ladybug Project. For More information, CLICK HERE
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Butterfly Counts
The Pollinator Conservation Association conducts Butterfly counts during appropriate seasons. You can participate. To learn more about our July 4 Counts, go to This Page.
The map on the right shows our registered North American Butterfly Count area based on a 15 mile radius from Times Beach Nature Preserve in downtown Buffalo New York. If you want to participate in our July count please go to This Page |
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PollinatorsWhat are Pollinators? Click here
Pollinators are essentially biological agents that enhance reproduction opportunities in plants. We generally associate pollinators with animals that help transfer pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma thus promoting reproduction. MORE: Click here Pollinator Conservation Strategy Click Here Pollinators have co-dependent relationships with plants and ecosystems. Healthy intact native ecosystems depend on specific pollinators, and visa-versa. The PCA promotes the use of native plants to support native ecosystems and native pollinators. We are not take a managed horticultural approach so much as we take an ecosystems and plant community approach. A plant community and its evolutionary relationships to the habitat, other species of flora and fauna, and the ecosystems that they support are fundamental aspects of Pollinator Conservation. Pollinator Conservation is a gateway to ecological conservation and restoration. Pollinator Pathways Pollinators use all habitat and although specific pollinators depend often on specific habitat, the concept of connectivity is another fundamental value of pollinator conservation. We are working to create a wide pollinator pathway in our region, especially in the Niagara River Greenway which stretches from Buffalo's Outer Harbor to Lake Ontario. Eventually we hope to build pollinator pathway programs throughout the Great Lakes. For more information on Pollinator Pathways, Click Here Honeybees It is important to note that the Pollinator Conservation Association is not about agricultural honeybee conservation. Domesticated European Honeybee's are invasive and competitive to most native bees and other pollinators. Honeybees and their association with agricultural practices are a big part of the problems related to the decline of native pollinators and ecosystems. They compete with native bees for food, help to spread disease, and help to limit biodiversity- the key to a healthy ecosystem. It is true that a wide recognition of pollinator threats has come about because of the decline of agricultural bees (Colony Collapse Disorder) and that awareness of these issues is essential to native pollinator conservation. The PCA is an advocate for native ecosystems. If you are a beekeeper, there is room for you here, especially if you are involved in small scale organic farming. We do not advocate for industrial agriculture. This does not mean that we do not support family pollinator gardens and organic farming. This does not mean that we are anti-honeybee. The PCA is just simply not a resource for honeybee farmers. More info, Click Here "How the Bees You Know are Killing the Bees You Don't." Inside Science; and Click Here "The Case Against Honeybees" Atlas Obscura |
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PollinationLearn about how pollination works and how native pollinators have evolved with native plants, ecosystems, and habitats to create biodiversity, a healthy atmosphere, and a healthy life-supporting planet. CLICK HERE |
GreenWatch Sunday Morning Television
GreenWatch Sunday Morning Television
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The Pollinator Conservation Association has developed a partnership with the Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve and The PUBLIC to bring short nature oriented videos to you. Most Sunday mornings the pieces are published at the online version of The PUBLIC.
For a complete archive of Sunday Morning Videos CLICK HERE |
Working with Partners and Communities
Pollinator Conservation Strategies
Pollinator Conservation Strategies
Working with Pollinator Conservation Strategies
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Partners and Friendsorganizations, individuals, educational institutions, businesses
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