Save our bees!

In the past decade alone, a third of the UK’S bees have disappeared. Here’s how you can help bring back the buzz…

Turn your garden into an insect-friendly haven

Since humankind began honeyhunting 20,000 years ago, bees have provided food, sweetness, candlelight and medicine. In fact, around a third of the world’s crops rely on pollination from these incredible insects. But climate change, reduced farmland and use of pesticides are all significantly impacting their numbers. A third of the UK’S bee population has disappeared over the past 10 years, with 24% of Europe’s bumblebee species threatened with extinction. In their new book, The

Good Bee: A Celebration Of Bees And How To Save Them, Alison Benjamin and Brian Mccallum explain how we can put pressure on landowners, developers, farmers and politicians to protect them. The authors explain how campaigning has led to certain pesticides being banned in some countries, and projects being set up to restore bee-friendly habitats, with wild bees being reintroduced into the environment. But there are also smaller, everyday ways we can all help our busy little friends to flourish…