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Pollination Week launched a BUZZ

Our outdoor exhibition SURR (BUZZ in swedish) with portraits of different pollinators – like solitary bees, bumblebees, butterflies, hover flies, bugs and the honeybee. Photographer Lena Granefelt caught the insects in their natural environment.

The exhibition was during the pandemic 2021 put up in the center of Stockholm and in the orchards of Kiviks Musteri in southern Sweden. All premises are visited by large numbers of people during the summerseason. 2022 SURR got new invitations and was put up in Skellefteå, Skara, at Torup castle outside Malmö and the Natural Science Museum in Stockholm.

Watch SURR here:

Appreciated Basic Guide on Pollination

Pollinate Europe has created a guide called ”Pollination School” in cooperation with the Nordic gardencenter chain Plantagen. The purpose is spreading knowledge on pollinators – who they are and what they need. The guide was first launched in 2019 and has since been printed in three editions. In 2021 the guide will be distributed to schoolchildren in Swedish regions and cities who work conciously with improving the environment for pollinating insects. The guide can also be dowloaded for free on our Swedish website pollinerasverige.se and is also available in Norwegian and Finnish through Plantagens homepages.

Ebba Werner, fotograferad på Björkelund mellan Simlångsdalen och Halmstad.

Pollinator of the Year

Every year the prize Pollinator of the Year is given to hard working and engaged people like biologist Ebba Werner who has been working effortlessly to bring awareness on the importance of flowers along the roadsides of Sweden and how to create more pollinator friendly environment along the roads. Ebba was awarded in 2020.

Pollinator of the Year 2019

Hardworking pioneers in the seed business were chosen as Pollinator of the Year 2019. Pratensis, a company from Småland who specializes in local flora and meadows, was a choice everyone in the jury agreed on. www.pratensis.se

Pollination Forum 23th of May 2019

On Thursday 23th of May the Forum “How to achieve sustainable Pollination” was arranged in a Rosendal’s Garden in Stockholm.

To this day Lucas Garibaldi from Universidad Nacional de Río Negro in Argentina was invited as well as some of Sweden’s most knowledgeable and engaged experts on biodiversity, nature conservation, agriculture and urban planning.

The purpose of the meeting was to find concrete proposals on how to benefit pollinating insects by making measures to increase biodiversity and support pollinators in all parts of society.

Lucas Garibaldi gave an overview of the status of pollination globally and Maj Rundlöf from University of Lund described the situation in Sweden. Representatives from different fields of expertise gave their view on the obstacle and solutions for better conditions for pollinators and workshops were held on specific areas of pollination.

The results was later presented to the Swedish Minister of Environment and the Minister of Finance.

The Forum was arranged by Pollinate Sweden / Pollinate Europe in cooperation with Sweden’s Environmental Protection Agency, The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, the Federation of Swedish Farmers/LRF and Rosendal’s Garden Foundation.

The Forum “How to achieve sustainable Pollination” took part during the Pollination Week, a concept for dissemination that was launched by Pollinate Sweden in 2018. During 2019 Pollination Week will take place 18–26th of May.

Organizers were Lotta Fabricius Kristiansen, Beekeeper and Expert on pollination, and Anna Lind Lewin, Communication Expert on Food and Sustainability, also founders of the Network Pollinate Sweden and Pollinate Europe.

Cooperation with Plantagen

In spring 2019 Pollinate Europe started a long-term collaboration with the business chain Plantagen, which is leading in garden supply in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Through an instore campaign their customers will be guided to choose the right plants, trees and seeds to support pollinating insects.

The campaign contains attractive illustrations of and show what trees, plants, herbs and flowers to put in your garden to benefit the pollinators.

The purpose of the campaign is to increase knowledge of who the pollinators are – not only honeybees but also beetles, butterflies, hoverflies, solitary bees and bumblebees – and what they need. The illustrations are made by Aron Landahl, design by Anna Lind Lewin.