Adoptuj a bee is the Greenpeace campaign that has been held annually since 2013, the aim of which is to build a bee-friendly Poland. Everyone can take part in the action by making a virtual "adoption" on the website adoptujpszczole.pl.Thanks to adoptions, Greenpeace carries out tasks that allow to protect beneficial pollinators.This year, for the first time, it will be activities related to the effects of the climate crisis.
- The climate crisis is not only a threat to people. Its victims are also plants and animals, and it is especially visible in the example of pollinating insects.Even in our country, we are already seeing the effects of the climate crisis, such as heavy rains, heat and droughts. They harm the bees and contribute to the weakening of their population. We must act together to minimize the negative effects of the ongoing crisis on the one hand, and to prevent a climate catastrophe that threatens entire ecosystems on the other - says Dominika Sokołowska from Greenpeace Polska, coordinator of the action.
In previous years, Greenpeace and tens of thousands of participants in the Adopt a Bee campaign, incl. built a hundred hotels for pollinators in several Polish cities, recreated the population of bees destroyed by pesticides in the village of Przyczyna Dolna, conducted research on the condition of pollinators and created the National Strategy for the Protection of Pollinating Insects - an action plan aimed at building a bee-friendly Poland.
- There is more and more talk about the problems that the climate crisis is creating for insect populations around the world, which obviously also affects our he alth and food security.Even in our country, we are already seeing changes in the ranges of some pollinators. On the other hand, anomalies in the cycle of seasons mean that bees may fly out to meadows where there are no valuable flowers yet.Heat, drought, mild winters and heavy rains - all this has a colossal impact on how much valuable food bees have at their disposal, how they survive the winter, how much strength they have for their hard work. The data presented by scientists is not positive, so we need joint and decisive actions to stop the climate disaster - adds Dominika Sokołowska.
As part of this year's Adopt a Bee campaign, Greenpeace, together with scientists, will update the National Strategy for the Protection of Pollinating Insects, so that it takes into account even more to counteract the negative effects of climate change on pollinators.It will also create, in cooperation with a selected city , a model solution for urban nature - a city garden that can be replicated in other places, friendly to people and bees, which will allow us and pollinating insects to be better protected against a dangerously changing climate.
But counteracting the effects is not enough: we also have to eliminate the cause of climate change, and in Poland it is primarily coal-based energy.Therefore, thanks to the adoptions, Greenpeace will be even more effective in promoting a just transition and ending the combustion of fossil fuels, and as a result stopping the climate disaster - also for bees and all wildlife.
