Our Vision
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Bees travel far and wide in their search for food, pollinating the flowers in their path. Their foraging guides them to traverse boundaries, including those we set. If bees didn't do this, we would have no fruits, no vegetables, no flowers – too little to eat, to enjoy and to awe. Bees are essential to us humans and innumerable other creatures; it is thus in our best interest to protect them. Given that bees are unperturbed by our borders, they also act as messengers of peace.
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Our religions and humanistic traditions teach us to care for one another, act in moderation and preserve nature. Yet we have failed to create a world without discrimination, war and the exploitation of the Earth. We cling to our borders, forgetting that we are first and foremost Earthlings, dependent on this precious planet and its diversity of living beings. Bees could thus encourage us to traverse our own borders, moving in peace towards a collective effort to preserve our common home.
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May the bees constantly remind us of peace and respect for life.
Keeping Nature, Carrying Culture
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Bees in all their diversity – over 20,000 known species – existed long before humans did and created the blooming paradise into which we are born. Not just the honeybees but the more plentiful non-honey-producing bees have provided the world with its abundance of fruits, vegetables and flowers, while simultaneously capturing our imagination, figuring into cultural and religious traditions around the globe.
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The Bees for Peace Project
Bees for Peace seeks to protect bees and other creatures that pollinate our flowers and bring nourishment to our bodies, while connecting communities with each other, uniting our voices and actions for planetary well-being.
We do so through the following offerings:
We do so through the following offerings:
Land Acknowledgement
Bees for Peace acknowledges the value of Indigenous peoples’ historical and ongoing advocacy, protection, and care of biodiversity and Earth systems.
Working in Toronto and across Nova Scotia, Bees for Peace recognizes that the lands where we live and work are as diverse as the Indigenous nations and communities who have stewarded them since time immemorial and continue to do so today.
In Toronto, we honour the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Métis Nation of Ontario.
In Nova Scotia, we honour the lands of the Mi'kmaq, who have lived in and cared for this territory, known as Mi’kma’ki, for thousands of years.
Bees for Peace is committed to continuing to learn, to humble ourselves, and to work toward being better allies in right relationship with the land and with the Indigenous peoples of the places we work in and call home.
Working in Toronto and across Nova Scotia, Bees for Peace recognizes that the lands where we live and work are as diverse as the Indigenous nations and communities who have stewarded them since time immemorial and continue to do so today.
In Toronto, we honour the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Métis Nation of Ontario.
In Nova Scotia, we honour the lands of the Mi'kmaq, who have lived in and cared for this territory, known as Mi’kma’ki, for thousands of years.
Bees for Peace is committed to continuing to learn, to humble ourselves, and to work toward being better allies in right relationship with the land and with the Indigenous peoples of the places we work in and call home.
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This website design and layout was generously funded by the Sustainability Action Fund of the University of Cologne 2025.
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