LET’S MAKE BEE HAPPY! “BEE ENGAGED: BUILD BACK BETTER FOR BEES”

Bees don’t need us, but we need them. Numerous animals and plants ranging in various sizes and shapes inhabit our world. No matter how large or small, an organism plays an integral part in the building and maintaining a particular environment that they are living in. This applies to bees as well.

In reality, bees are among the major pollinators on the planet. Bees help to pollinate the plants from domesticated to wild. Bees are important culturally and environmentally as pollinators and makers of honey and therapeutic items. Pollen transfer between flowers of a plant or flowers of the same plant is required for the plant to initiate the process of reproduction.

Around 20,000 bee species have been identified globally, including over 4,000 natives to the United States. Only a handful are managed by humans, and the most are wild species.

The economic contributions of bees are also invaluable. People have learned to recognize the importance of bees in maintaining food security. Many of the micronutrient rich fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and oils we consume result from pollination. In reality, pollinators play a crucial role in over 75 per cent of the world’s crops that produce fruits and seeds for human consumption.

Bees for life

Pollinators such as bees play a vital part in the ecosystem by contributing their services to the planet. They help the plants to survive and produce their offspring(seed) through the process of pollination.

Bees play a crucial role in complex and interrelated ecosystems, allowing a diverse range of species to live. Bees are vital to our food supply, Without them, our fields will be barren, and our plates will be empty.

Global bee population declines threaten the planet’s and people’s pollination advantages. While bee pollination is widely acknowledged for contributing to sustainable development goals such as food security and biodiversity, many other benefits supplied by bees have yet to be fully appreciated.

Why do we celebrate World Bee Day?

World Bee Day is a global movement on May 20 and was proposed by the Slovenian government several years ago to raise awareness of the problems that bees confront and the value of bees to our planet. The goal of bee day is to recognize the importance of pollinators like bees to the earth. Bees are responsible for the world’s food production, making them essential for preserving biodiversity, ecological balance, and pollution reduction.

Importance of Bees

• Food security
• Sustainable farming and Income
• Biodiversity and Environmental protection

Threats to Bees

• Habitat loss
• Climate change
• Pests and diseases
• Modern farming practices

Bees and Sustainable development

Bee pollination is critical for food crops. There is rising concern about a global crisis as demand for pollination services continues to outstrip supply, resulting in an expansion in less varied, pollinator-dependent agriculture systems. Bee pollination improves the nutritional value, quality, and longevity of particular crops and increases their yield. Plants pollinated by bees offer food for wildlife and non-timber forest products for humans. Bees have the ability to contribute to 15 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, as well as a minimum of 30 SDG targets. Ecosystem services are intrinsically linked to global sustainable development. Pollination by bees has been noted as having a direct impact on food security (SDG2) and biodiversity (SDG15). The contribution of bee pollination to biofuels is a less-explored element of bee pollination (SDG7). Despite being self-pollinated, oilseed crops produce more when bees (target 7.2) pollinate them.

Together we can save the Bees!

Habitat Loss, Degradation, and Fragmentation are the major threats to bees. Climate change, harmful chemicals, and diseases are all other factors. The interplay of these factors creates an uncertain future for bees. As a result of these challenges, wild bee species are on the verge of extinction. Bees are dying at an unsustainable rate, with severe consequences for our natural environment. They are important pollinators, and their extinction would severely impact all ecosystems. Bees are essential to the chain of life that supports humanity and all other creatures. Their deterioration threatens us, and we must act now to safeguard them.

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