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The project The Welsh equivalent, ‘Natur am Byth’, is taking a

similar approach, bringing species conservation to
Fowey Valley By Barnaby Smith, effect the people across Wales. A funding application is
due to be submitted shortly.
Public Engagement
Across the UK, the BeeWalk community has kept
Manager
walking, where allowed, collecting that vital data
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which enables all of us to see ‘How are the UK’s Search ‘What’s that bumblebee?’
Throughout 2020, our staff and volunteers bumblebees doing?’ An update will be published in
have been busy with existing and new the annual BeeWalk report early next year.
projects up and down the country. Here’s a We are recruiting a Shrill Carder Bee Species
little flavour of what’s been happening. Recovery Manager to lead on the delivery of the
First, we’ve had the exciting news of an Shrill Carder Bee Conservation Strategy to ensure
Pastures for Pollinators extension into 2021 for both our Making a the survival of this rare bumblebee.
West Country Buzz Buzz for the Coast and Pollinating the Peak Finally, work continues on the West Country Buzz

projects (see more on page 3).
project and Short-haired bumblebee project into
2021.
Down in Cornwall, the Fowey Valley
Bumblebee Project has completed its
You can find out more on our current and
first full field season with the supporting
bumblebeeconservation.org/our-projects/
partnership of landowners, farmers, and partnership projects on the Trust’s website at www.
local businesses excited to see initial
findings presented at a recent meeting. Up
in Scotland, work has continued to save the Bumblebees An introduction
Great Yellow bumblebee, with a key moment
being the finding, and filming, of a Great
Yellow bumblebee nest, a most unusual, if
not unique event. Over in Wales, staff have
continued to advise farmers at the Calon
Wen Milk Co-operative on the ‘Pasture for
Pollinators’, a partnership project led by
Species on the Edge six dairy farmers, which aims to increase
bumblebee populations and forage production
by planting multi-species leys on their farms.

Also in Scotland and Wales, development
work is well underway on two successors to
the hugely successful Back from the Brink
England project. The Trust recently employed
a Development Officer to take forward work
on ‘Species on the Edge’, an exciting new
partnership project which will target around
BeeWalk 40 species found in seven project areas on On sale for £10 at www.bumblebeeconservation.org/merchandise
Scotland’s coasts and islands.
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