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Our newsletter
Includes help with identifying bees, tips on
attracting them to your garden, and sites to see
some of the rarer species
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Conservation
- Working with politicians, statutory agencies and other NGO's championing the cause of bumblebees and developing sustainable agricultural policies
- Promoting wildlife-friendly gardening throughout the UK
- Encouraging
farmers to enter into agri-envionrment schemes and allow
wildlife back onto
farms
- Improving habitats and land management in
sensitive areas to protect threatened species
- Campaigning against developments that
threaten important habitats
- Highlighting the
potentially harmful use of non-native bees for pollination and campaigning for better safeguards
- Advising
landowners and reserve wardens on conservation
issues
- Participating in and funding high-quality scientific research to underpin our conservation policies
- Engaging with the UK Biodiversity Action Plan process, and driving forward with action to benefit biodiversity
- Providing expert advice on all aspects of bumblebee ecology and conservation
- Establishing both distribution and relative abundance surveys which reach out to a wide audience
Education
- Running events and training days so that people can learn more about bumblebees and how to help them
- Our bumblebee education pack has been well received by over 100 Scottish schools - we hope to soon secure funding to produce educational materials for the whole of the UK
- Our newsletter is full of interesting facts and information and reaches a growing membership over over 6,000
- Giving talks and running events for interested groups
and schools
- Maintaining an interactive website which provide information on everything from bumblebee declines, and how you can help through to gardening and providing nest sites for bumblebees and much more - we hope you enjoy your visit
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Our members
Learning how to identify different bumblebee
species at one of our members days
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