National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators

The National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators is a national sectoral strategy of the United States of America. Its main objectives are to reduce honey bee colony losses during winter (overwintering mortality) to no more than 15% within 10 years. This goal is informed by the previously released Bee Informed Partnership surveys and the newly established quarterly and annual surveys by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Based on the robust data anticipated from the national, statistically-based NASS surveys of beekeepers, the Task Force will develop baseline data and additional goal metrics for winter, summer, and total annual colony loss; increase the Eastern population of the monarch butterfly to 225 million butterflies occupying an area of approximately 15 acres (6 hectares) in the overwintering grounds in Mexico, through domestic/international actions and public-private partnerships, by 2020; and restore or enhance 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next 5 years through Federal actions and public-private partnerships.