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Trust led projects

Many of our conservation projects continue to focus on work with the UK’s rare bumblebees. Our projects are varied throughout the UK and range from training BeeWalkers to creating habitat within urban communities. Our past successes have created lasting partnerships including our work with the Rethink Nature partnership, a group of leading science conservation organisations.

We have a number of conservation projects in place helping to safeguard the UK’s bumblebee populations. Beginning with our national bumblebee-monitoring scheme BeeWalk, a citizen science scheme established over 10 years ago to collect data on the abundance and distribution of the UK’s bumblebees, using this data as widely as possible. This led to our Skills for Bees project in Scotland.

Additionally, a 10 year national conservation strategy to save one of England’s rarest bumblebees, the Shrill carder bumblebee, is in place working with partners to increase habitat, connectivity, evidence data and have an increased understanding of the needs of this bumblebee.

Furthermore we have a number of projects aimed at species recovery, including the Great Yellow bumblebee: On the Verge and Bee Connected, a three-year restoration landscape scale project based on the South Kent and East Sussex coast.

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© Pieter HaringsmaA Shrill-carder bumblebee feeding on a pale purple flower.

A conservation strategy for the Shrill carder bee

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© Tilly HopkinsA woman standing in a field of wildflowers looking for bumblebees.

Bee Connected

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A brown banded carder bumblebee on a yellow flower

Buzzing in the East End (B.E.E)

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© Sinead LynchA close-up of a bumblebee feeding on a wildflower with a cow standing behind it.

Calon Gwenyn – ‘Bee Heart’

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© Richard DowlingA Ruderal bumblebee male feeding on a bright pink flower.

Connecting the Carmarthenshire Coast

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© Pieter HaringsmaA Great Yellow bumblebee feeding on a purple flower.

Great Yellows: On the Verge

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© Jamie Buxton-GouldA Bilberry bumblebee feeding on a flower.

Skills for Bees: Scotland

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© Michael GouldSide profile of rare bumblebee on yellow flower

S.O.S (Save Our Shrills): Somerset

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© Laura ShakespeareBumblebee on yellow flower with coast in the background

Moss carder bees of Cornwall

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Kent Plan Bee Project Officer with group of people taking part in bee ID session

Kent's Plan Bee

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A woman walking in a field conducting a BeeWalk survey.

Saving Brechfa’s bumblebees