#pollinators

🌍 Global · Bat Conservation International

Volunteers and researchers are replanting a 1,200-km chain of agaves along the US-Mexico border to refuel three species of endangered nectar-feeding bats.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Bumblebee Conservation Trust

A Scotland-based charity trains nearly a thousand citizen scientists a year to track bumblebees and restore the flower-rich habitat they need to survive.

🇦🇹 Austria · Biosphärenpark Nockberge

Since Austria's first national park here gave way to a UNESCO biosphere reserve, the Carinthian Nockberge have shown that centuries-old alpine farming and rare grassland biodiversity can thrive side by side.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Amazon Conservation Team

Sixty families in Colombia's most deforested department are raising native stingless bees as a sweeter, forest-friendly alternative to cattle ranching and coca.

🇷🇴 Romania · Fundatia ADEPT (Agricultural Development and Environmental Protection in Transylvania)

A Saschiz-based foundation works with farmers to keep Transylvania's flower-rich hay meadows mown and grazed the old way, protecting one of Europe's last great semi-natural grasslands.

🇦🇹 Austria · GLOBAL 2000 (Friends of the Earth Austria)

Since six activists founded it in 1982, GLOBAL 2000 has turned public petitions into Austrian law, from a landmark 1997 anti-GMO referendum to the country's 2011 climate protection act.

🇱🇻 Latvia · Latvijas Dabas fonds (Latvian Fund for Nature)

Latvia's oldest nature conservation NGO has restored thousands of hectares of coastal meadows and bogs to bring back the country's rarest birds.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Overberg Renosterveld Trust

A South African trust partners with farmers to protect the world's most biodiverse and most destroyed lowland habitat, home to a huge diversity of solitary bee and bee-fly pollinators.

🇾🇪 Yemen · Socotra Dragon Blood Tree Association

French and Socotri islanders are raising community tree nurseries, beehives and water pipelines to save Socotra's iconic, storm-battered dragon blood trees.

🇦🇺 Australia · Bush Heritage Australia

On a former sheep and cattle property south of Canberra, conservationists are rebuilding critically endangered natural temperate grassland paddock by paddock.

🇸🇮 Slovenia · Slovenian Beekeepers' Association (Čebelarska zveza Slovenije)

Slovenia's national beekeeping association, whose campaign persuaded the UN to declare a global World Bee Day, still organizes the country's dense grassroots network protecting native pollinators.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Stichting Steenbreek

A national Dutch foundation gets residents and city councils competing to pry up paving tiles from front gardens and streets and replace them with plants.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · IVN Natuureducatie

IVN plants tennis-court-sized Tiny Forests on Dutch schoolyards and street corners, turning paved city plots into dense, biodiverse outdoor classrooms.

🇮🇳 India · Under the Mango Tree Society

A Mumbai-based nonprofit trains marginal and tribal farmers to keep indigenous bees, lifting both crop pollination and household incomes.

🇦🇺 Australia · Wheen Bee Foundation

Australia's charity for bees funds native pollinator research, certifies bee-friendly farmland, and helps communities plant forage trees nationwide.