WELCOME TO BEES FOR PEACE:
An Official Project of the UN Decade on Biodiversity
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​Engaging Faith Communities to Care for Bees 


​Bees for Peace promotes pollinator protection through faith communities and humanitarian organizations. In addition to other activities, Bees for Peace seeks to establish blooming feeding sites for bees and other pollinators on the grounds of houses of worship and other locations. These feeding sites form a “peace network,” as bees, imagined as peace ambassadors, visit the various feeding sites, thereby uniting disparate communities of faith through this cross-pollination. 
Bees for Peace also seeks to create connections between faith communities and environmentalist organizations. Through these connections, people of faith gain the technical and scientific know-how they need to mobilize both their spiritual and material resources to protect bees and other pollinators, while environmentalists improve their communication and outreach to this major sector of civil society. Furthermore, by uniting diverse faith communities with each other in the joint endeavor of protecting pollinators, Bees for Peace fosters interfaith dialog, cooperation and subsequently greater social harmony. Bees for Peace thus strives to create and preserve the common ground, both ecologically and socially, that we all share. Begun in Cologne, Germany, in 2018, Bees for Peace was awarded recognition as an “official project of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.”
Honey is only one of many gifts we receive from bees.
​Most bees produce no honey nor live in hives -- yet they bring us the much of the world's bounty of fruits, vegetables and flowers. These are only possible when the pollen – that dusty material in the middle of a flower – is carried from one flower to another. This pollen is what fertilizes the flowers and allows them to develop and transform into the food we and other animals eat. Hence, bees of all kinds provide us and the rest of nature with an irreplaceable service.

Yet now, these animals in decline:

Bees existed long before humans did and created the paradise into which we were born. These creatures have not only provided the world with much of its rich bounty of fruits, vegetables and flowers, they have long captured our imagination, figuring into cultural and religious traditions around the globe. 

Hence, bees are not only essential to healthy ecosystems, they are transmitters of many of our most treasured values.  

This is why we started Bees for Peace. ​

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Bees for Peace is a program of Pollinator Partnership Canada, a federally recognized charitable organization
(charitable registration no. 84169 5174 RR0001)
Validation of Pollinator Partnership Canada's charitable registration may be found here.

Bees for Peace acknowledges that it is operating primarily on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, in territory covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.