Our latest B-Lines update has now been published giving you a flavour of some of our current activities around the B-Lines network. In Yorkshire our meadow restoration and creation works...
21/11/2014
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Wildflower meadows project helps conserve our bees and butterflies
Over the last two year’s Buglife’s ‘Restoring Ryedale’s Lowland Meadows’, has helped to restore and create approximately 60 acres of wildflower-rich meadows and pastures across the Ryedale landscape. This work...
19/11/2014
Glasgow’s Buzzing!
Buglife and Glasgow City Council have created and enhanced more than 13 hectares of wildflower meadow during the three-year project started in May 2011, and was grant-funded by Landfill Communities...
17/11/2014
Napoleon Alive but Critically Endangered on St Helena Island
Many people will know that Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled in 1815 to the tiny island of St Helena, 1,930 km off the west coast of Africa, but few will know...
13/11/2014
National Pollinator Strategy, first rung for bee recovery
In welcoming the National Pollinator Strategy Buglife are delighted that the Government has recognised, and is addressing, the serious threats to pollinating insects, but cautions that the strategy does not...
04/11/2014
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Allotments best for bees
Allotments are providing the best habitat for bees while parks and roadsides need improving, warns a leading bee expert following the results of the first-ever Great British Bee Count published...
28/10/2014
U.S. Government department finds commonly used pesticides don’t work
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced findings that neonicotinoid insecticides don’t work when applied as a seed treatment to soybean. Neonicotinoids are a group of chemicals which have been...
17/10/2014
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It’s sink or swim time for English waterways
The Environment Agency is currently asking the public to comment on crucial plans to determine how our waters will be managed for the next six years. You can get involved...
10/10/2014
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Buglife asks Government for action on alien species
Buglife believes that all invertebrates are important. However, sometimes bugs can end up where they’re not supposed to, and sometimes this leads to problems. These alien (non-native) species may have...
08/10/2014
Brownfield or greenfield – it’s not a black and white issue
Let’s change our assumptions about developing land – that’s the message from national land management charity The Land Trust and Buglife, who want to remind politicians it’s not as simple...
01/10/2014