◆Formed 2016 ,to follow up on the findings of IPBES Assessment on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production, which found that many of the world’s pollinator species are on the decline.
◆Initiative suggested By Netherlands on December 2016 at the Conference of the Parties–Convention of Biological Diversity(CBD) held in Mexico
◆Now 28 member
◆About 16.5 per cent of vertebrate pollinators are threatened with global extinction, say the IUCN
◆The assessment highlights that 75 per cent of food crops in the world and nearly 90 per cent of wild flowering plants depend, at least to some extent, on animal pollination.
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