Page 27 - Council Journal Autumn 2019

This is a shared plan of action. At its core, it is about providing food and shelter across all types of land so that Irish pollinators can survive and thrive. Everyone has a role to play. By working together we can collectively take steps to reverse pollinator losses and help restore populations to healthy levels.
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A call to action
Honeybee Species
Bumblebee Species
Solitary bee Species
This will be supported by additional actions across four other objectives. Within each objective, targets have been set and actions have been identified to help achieve that target. A total of 24 targets and 81 actions are identified.
Organisations who have volunteered to accept responsibility are stated, but in all cases there is scope and space for others to get involved and play a role in delivery. It is hoped that over the life of this Plan new initiatives and new ideas to address each target will be identified and implemented.
Solitary Bee
Large Carder Bee
Progress will be measured in terms of the number of actions that are achieved; and by changes in the abundance of wild and managed pollinators in the landscape. This Plan is about working together and achieving as much as we can for Irish pollinators by working strategically and cohesively over the period 2015-2020.
1. Making Ireland pollinator friendly: By taking action on farmland, public land and private land, we want to achieve a joined-up network of diverse and flower-rich habitats to support pollinators across Ireland:
Large Yellow Bumble Bee - endangered in IRL
Shrill Carder Bee - endangered in IRL
1.1 Farmland: 4 targets & 12 actions
1.2 Public land: 3 targets & 22 actions
1.3 Private land: 2 targets & 5 actions
1.4 Supporting the creation of pollinator friendly habitats: 1 target and 3 actions
2. Raising awareness of pollinators and how to protect them: 3 targets & 11 actions
3. Managed pollinators – supporting beekeepers and growers: 4 targets & 7 actions
4. Expanding our knowledge on pollinators and pollination services: 4 targets & 11 actions
5. Collecting evidence to track change and measure success: 3 targets & 6 actions
Species rich grassland - “Don’t mow, let it grow!” All information taken from Pollinator-Plan -018.PDF found on www.pollinators.ie/resources.
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