Progress for pollinators: Projects across Scotland provided crucial help for bees, hoverflies and other pollinators in 2021. - NatureScot
A new progress report published by NatureScot highlights the huge amount of work being undertaken by a wide range of organisations and individuals to implement The Pollinator Strategy for Scotland.
Pollinators are vital for our biodiversity, but populations face challenges due to changes in land use, habitat loss, diseases, pesticides and climate change.
The aim of the strategy is to make Scotland more pollinator-friendly, halting and reversing the decline in native pollinator populations.
Despite the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, success stories in 2021 included the sowing of dozens of new wildflower meadows and improvements to road verge habitat across Scotland.
Projects also created ‘wild’ spaces in school grounds, improved community greenspaces for pollinators and established pollinator hotspots, as well as planting countless pollinator-friendly spring bulbs, fruit trees and hedgerows.
Hundreds of volunteers also signed up to do their bit for pollinators in 2021, from bulb planting and meadow maintenance to insect identification and surveying.
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Posted On: 22/02/2022