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¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ bee researcher Clement Kent has been awarded the Pollinator Advocate Award for Canada \u2013 not for his work in the lab, but his efforts in the garden.<\/p>\n

Kent, president of the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto, founded the Pollinator Garden Project two years ago to teach gardeners, members of the public and school children how to create and conserve habitat for pollinators.<\/p>\n

A postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology in York\u2019s Faculty of Science & Engineering<\/a>, he is the only Canadian to receive the award this year from the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign<\/a> (NAPPC). The NAPPC is made up of more than 120 groups of scientists, researchers, conservationists, government officials and volunteers who lead programs to protect pollinators.<\/p>\n

\u201cA pollinator garden is a garden that maximizes chances for food, nesting, and survival, for any kind of pollinator \u2013 so we are not focused on just bees, or birds, or butterflies,\u201d says Kent. \u201cThat means it needs to have leaves that caterpillars eat, flowers chosen specifically for hummingbirds, and nesting sites like stems, or places in the ground for bees.\u201d<\/p>\n

He and a team of volunteers have planted pollinator gardens in Toronto\u2019s High Park and other city parks and worked through the winter to prepare a pollinator garden for the Canada Blooms garden show in March, where they distributed Kent\u2019s guide How to Plant a Pollinator Garden<\/em>. They have also taken the pollinator guide to schools and planted pollinator gardens at four Toronto elementary schools.<\/p>\n

A gardener for many years, Kent left a successful career in the software industry to earn a PhD in biology. He now uses his background in math to do genetics and genomics research in Professor Amro Zayed's bee laboratory<\/a> at York.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found myself working in a lab at York where Professor Bridget Stutchbury, who wrote Silence of the Songbirds<\/em>, is down the hall. In the other direction is Professor Laurence Packer, who wrote Keeping the Bees<\/em>. A lot of what they are talking about is habitat,\u201d says Kent. \u201cI recognized that gardens can be very good habitat if they are managed properly, so I decided to spread the word.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NAPPC will present Kent\u2019s award at an international conference at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in late October.<\/p>\n

For information, visit the\u00a0Pollinator Garden<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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