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Every Observation Matters!
The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is a community science initiative open to anyone in North America. Each year, the Monarch Blitz takes place over a 10-day period, starting on the last Friday of July and ending on the Sunday of the following week.
A unique trinational organization advancing a regional approach to environmental cooperation and creating linkages across Canada, Mexico and the United States to address emerging and complex environmental challenges.
CEC projects bring together experts, governments and communities to share knowledge, build capacity, pilot scalable solutions and strengthen cooperation, turning shared goals into action for North America’s environment.
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Black carbon (BC) or “soot” ─a component of fine particulate matter (PM)─ is an important air contaminant that not only affects public health but also our climate. Our countries’ systems for monitoring air pollution have limited coverage, with millions of people across North America living in communities that have no...
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Shared Priorities for the Region
Pollinators are crucial to the functioning of natural ecosystems, human well-being and food security. Globally, an estimated 87 percent of plant species depend on animals for pollination, including 75 percent of crop species.
This State of Knowledge, intended for scientists, conservation practitioners and government agencies, offers a summary of the current understanding of pollinator conservation, highlights the ecosystem services supported by pollinators and explores how social sciences and human dimensions can contribute to pollinator conservation in North America. This report identifies priority conservation actions that would benefit from greater regional collaboration and provides recommendations on integrating human dimension considerations in pollinator conservation work.
