Please support, and make sure your colleagues support, the Protection of Pollinators Bill and put into law the action that will make sure our vital populations of bees and pollinators have the space they need to survive and thrive.
Why is this important?
š There has been a Government commitment to create a network of wildlife habitats in the countryside since 2010. Our bees and other pollinators are in trouble, their wildflower habitats are widely fragmented and they are unable to move north to escape from climate change.
š The Protection of Pollinators Bill, due for 2nd reading on 26th October, would create an English network of B-Lines ā corridors where wildflower meadows would be restored, linking back together the homes of our endangered pollinators.
š Without bees and other pollinating bugs we would not have apples, strawberries, tomatoes or many other crops ā they are worth about Ā£700 million to British agriculture. Our pollinators are also wonderful animals and our populations of wild flowers and birds depend on them as well.
How it will be delivered
Your support has helped gain concessions from government with the creation of a Ā£60,000 fund to complete the mapping of pollinator habitat in England. Buglife welcomes this as a first step towards securing the future of our pollinators. This is real affirmative action in the battle to preserve the buzz of life. Once mapping is completed more resource will be needed to deliver the on-the-ground action to turn the maps into landscapes full of wildflowers for pollinators.
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