WELCOME TO BEES FOR PEACE:
An Official Project of the UN Decade on Biodiversity

 

Preserving Nature. Promoting Unity. Protecting Our Future.  

Begun in Cologne, Germany, in 2018, Bees for Peace was awarded recognition as an “official project of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.”
We all share life on this earth, we all feed from its flowers and fruits and we all depend on the creatures that make this abundance possible. This is the common ground we all share. Let’s collaborate in preserving it!

Bees for Peace creates native plant gardens at diverse settings for the native bees (and other creatures) that pollinate our fruits, vegetables and flowers. 

In addition to other activities, Bees for Peace seeks to establish blooming feeding sites for bees and other pollinators on the grounds of schools, community centres, houses of worship and other locations. These feeding sites form a “peace network,” as bees unite different communities through cross-pollination. 

​Bees for Peace thus strives to create and preserve the common ground, both ecologically and socially, that we all share. 
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 flower to flower,  allowing them to 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.

Meet Our Native Bee Friends!

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Native bees are some of the most important players in our ecosystems. Here, you can see some of our native bee friends. These bees are vital in the pollination of our plants, the very plants that bring food to our table.  See "Aggie and Friends" under "Network and Events" to learn more about them.

Now these animals are dying out:

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. 

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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© 2021 BEES FOR PEACE
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.