The coolest action for bees is celebrating their fifth birthday. On October 3, the jubilee edition of "Adopt a bee" began - a campaign in which thousands of Polish women and Poles adopt bees to create a pollinator-friendly Poland together with Greenpeace. .
"For 5 years, thanks to the "Adopt a bee all over Poland" campaign, thousands of people together with Greenpeace have been doing great things for pollinating insects. What has been done for them so far shows that Poles love bees and are able to repay them for their hard work. From the construction of hotels for wild pollinators, through the reconstruction of the bee population after the catastrophe in Przyczyna Dolna, to scientific research in the civic science model.This year, thanks to the community fundraising "Adopt a bee, the National Strategy for the Protection of Pollinating Insects will be created. . It will be established in cooperation with beekeepers, scientists, bee-friendly farming practitioners and everyone who wants to. "
Adopt a bee!
Civic debates will be held in four cities (Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, Wrocław) in autumn, during which everyone will be able to comment on activities aimed at helping pollinators. The innovative formula of the debates will enable the voice of citizens to participate in the work on an expert strategic document of importance for the fate of bees throughout the countryThe strategy will be a comprehensive document addressing the current challenges related to the protection of pollinating insects.
Therefore, an important element of its creation will be legal and substantive analyzes of current regulations and provisions that may affect the situation of bees. Consultations with beekeepers and farmers, international consultations of similar documents that exist in other EU countries, as well as analyzes of scientific research on pollinators, including the results of the Two-year Great Pollinator Census are also of key importance.The document will be created in the first half of 2022-2023, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of the Environment were invited to cooperate in its preparation.
"To take part in the campaign "Adopt a bee, go to the website www.adoptujpszczole.pl and" adopt any number of virtual bees. During adoption, you can choose between one-time adoption and the so-called regular adoption, i.e. renewed every month.People who decide to adopt a regular adoption will receive the Bee Hero Package, which includes, among others Certificate and T-shirt of the Bee Hero, a discount coupon for the novel "Swarm" by Laline Paull, as well as the bee calendar for 2022-2023."
Bees can be adopted until November 14th. Gazeta.pl is the partner of the "Adoptuj a bee" campaign for the third time, and the books for people who have chosen regular adoption were donated by the Prószyński i S-ka Publishing House.
About the "Adopt a bee" campaign
The "Adopt a Bee" campaign is the largest crowdfunding campaign in terms of the number of participants. For 4 years, 30,000 people took part in it. So far, thanks to "Adopt a Bee", 100 "five-star" hotels for wild pollinating insects have been created throughout the country, and dozens of others are being built in private gardens, schools and kindergartens.
Adopt a bee is also an effort to ensure that there are as few substances harmful to bees as possible in the environment, including the most toxic pesticides.In response to the mass poisoning of millions of bees in the commune Wschowa, thanks to thousands of people who took part in the action, it was possible to rebuild the bee population in this region, and for the new bees to live there really well and safely, a flower meadow was created, over 250 trees and honey shrubs were planted.
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Local farmers and representatives of local government have undergone training in the care of greenery and cultivation of crops in a bee-friendly manner.Local activities are also accompanied by nationwide projects - including testing crops attractive to bees in terms of poisonous pesticides and scientific studies that show not only the problems of bees in Poland, but also why and how they can be best helped by changing Polish legislation accordingly.
Scientific research on pollinating insects, i.e. the Great List of Pollinators, took place in cooperation with scientists and naturalists all over Poland.Part of the research is carried out in an innovative model of civic science, thanks to which everyone can take part in the research and help scientists.So far, almost 4,000 people have engaged in the project, which means the research has had a reach that was impossible to achieve with traditional research conducted by a small group of scientists.
Event start: 2022-2023-10-03 00:00End of event: 2022-2023-11-14 23:59
