Status & Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) Project

The project Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of important European pollinator groups, in particular bees and lay the groundwork for future pollinator monitoring programmes.  STEP will also assess the relative importance of potential [...]

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Get Britain Buzzing

Buglife President Germaine Greer, Wildlife Presenter Bill Oddie and former Prime Minister Tony Blair today become ambassadors for a new campaign at The Royal Society in London to help ‘Get Britain Buzzing’. The campaign led by Buglife hopes to highlight the crisis facing pollinating insects such as bees, hoverflies and moths. The launch event is [...]

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Sam Droege bee presentations

Some nice slide presentations by US biologist Sam Droege including the following (use arrow key at bottom to flick through more quickly and menu on left to view full screen):

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Government review of pesticide released – but what about our wild pollinators

Government releases honeybee review of neonicotinoid pesticide – but what about our wild pollinators? 10th March 2011 Buglife and other environmental charities are very concerned that Government inaction means that controversial neonicotinoid pesticides are continuing to damage bees and other wildlife; this is despite a newly released Government report claiming that field studies show “no [...]

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Volunteers ‘vital to science data collection’

Volunteers play a vital role in ensuring that a range of valuable long-term datasets continue to survive, a team of scientists will say. They argue that without citizen scientists, it would be too costly to carry out regular monitoring surveys. However, they add that appropriate training is needed to allay concerns about inaccurate recordings. The [...]

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U.N. Report on global state of pollinators

Current evidence demonstrates that a sixth major extinction of biological diversity event is underway. The Earth is losing between one and ten percent of biodiversity per decade, mostly due to habitat loss, pest invasion, pollution, over-harvesting and disease. Certain natural ecosystem services are vital for human societies. Many fruit, nut, vegetable, legume, and seed crops [...]

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The Invisible Highway

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Lincolnshire BioBlitz 2010

From the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust: Join our BioBlitz - 9 & 10 July 2010 at Banovallum House, Horncastle A BioBlitz is a 24 hour wildlife survey where we try to find and identify as much wildlife as possible… and we need your help. Everyone can take part in finding wildlife during the BioBlitz event and it’s [...]

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