Roughly three-quarters of flowering plants and a third of food crops rely on animals like bees, butterflies, bats, and birds to move pollen from one bloom to another. Without them, the abundance and variety of fruits, vegetables, and seeds humans depend on would collapse into something dull and unstable. Their value isn’t only economic but ecological, since they maintain biodiversity and keep habitats resilient. In short, pollinators are the overlooked infrastructure of both nature and human s...
Roughly three-quarters of flowering plants and a third of food crops rely on animals like bees, butterflies, bats, and birds to move pollen from one bloom to another. Without them, the abundance and variety of fruits, vegetables, and seeds humans depend on would collapse into something dull and unstable. Their value isn’t only economic but ecological, since they maintain biodiversity and keep habitats resilient. In short, pollinators are the overlooked infrastructure of both nature and human survival.
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