POLLINATOR CORRIDOR: Creating a corridor for pollinators 
 ... we explain ahead on Passport to Texas. 

This is Passport to Texas

In May, President Barack Obama announced a national 
strategy to make Interstate 35 a 1,500-mile "pollinator 
corridor" to bring back honeybees, monarchs and other 
pollinators. 

06 -- US agriculture benefits from insect pollination to the tune 
of about 18 to 20-billion [dollars] a year.

Michael Warriner is an invertebrate biologist at TPW. The 
plan: rehabilitate pollinator habitats from the Texas-
Mexico border to Duluth, Minnesota. 

Gardener, author, and green lifestyle expert, Shawna 
Coronado, believes this effort must extend beyond the 
highway and deep into the heart of the urban jungle. 

23 -- One of the problems we have in cities all around the 
united States is, we have a dead area -- that hot cement area that 
is the city. We have all these concerns about bees and 
butterflies and how we keep them in our communities and 
going throughout communities. Well, the best way to do that, of 
course, is to plant a native pollinator garden. Plants that are 
pollinator oriented.

Shawna hopes to see people growing pollinator gardens 
on apartment and condo balconies, and building rooftops.

19 -- My little dream is to have a pollinator corridor going 
through every city that would lead the bees and the butterflies 
and such through, instead of this giant, miles and miles and 
miles of area tht they cannot cross through easily. This could 
provide a solution because of its unique way that it can fit into 
an urban environment.

Tomorrow: helping the Monarch butterfly. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 




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