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Events and workshops
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World Bee Day Celebrations
On World Bee Day we visit markets, festivals and sustainability conferences
with activities for children to teach them about the importance of bees for pollination of our food
and ways to be ‘Bee Friendly’.
Australian Pollinator Week
Each November, Australian Pollinator Week shines a spotlight on the important and unique pollinators in Australia, including native bees, butterflies, beetles, birds, bats and other pollinators. It’s an opportunity for communities across the country to learn more about the diversity of Australian pollinators and to take steps to protect them.
Wild Pollinator Count
The Wild Pollinator Count gives you an opportunity to contribute to wild pollinator insect conservation in Australia. You don't need to be an insect expert and you don't need any fancy gear. You can join in by watching any flowering plant for just ten minutes sometime in the count week and recording your observations.
Pollinator-friendly communities
Every flower counts — connect with your local bee-friendly community and make a real difference for our vital pollinators.
Hall Village
In 2019, the Village of Hall in the ACT became Australia’s first ‘Bee Friendly’ village.
With assistance from ACT for Bees and Other Pollinators, they have launched a Bee Friendly Community Charter with the aim of promoting the health of bees and other pollinators in our region, as well as setting an example that might be followed by other communities.
Ginninderry
Ginninderry has achieved a 6 Star Green Star rating, recognising its commitment to creating healthy, resilient and sustainable communities.
Working with ACT for Bees and Other Pollinators, Ginninderry has adopted bee-friendly planning and landscaping using the ACT Government's Plant Species for Urban Landscape Projects Standard.
Strathnairn included targeted pollinator plantings, and Macnamara's development has seen Ginninderry adopt a 200m x 200m planting grid designed to provide bees with reliable access to diverse food sources.
Spanning 1,600 hectares across Canberra’s north-west and into the Yass Valley, Ginninderry is bordered by the Murrumbidgee River and Ginninderra Creek on 2 sides. Only half the site will be developed, with the remainder dedicated to open space, including a 577-hectare conservation corridor that supports biodiversity and pollinators.
Contact us to find out how you can support the cause!
Keep the Global Hive alive
Founded by Julie Armstrong in 2016, the Global Hive community arts project was created to highlight the vital role bees play in pollinating the nutritious foods we rely on every day.
The project sparked a successful collaboration with Cool Australia’s curriculum writers, resulting in the Love Food? Love Bees! education programs. By December 2022, more than 750,000 students had explored the fascinating connection between bees, pollination, and food production—and discovered practical ways to help protect bees and other important pollinators.
You can be part of the movement too. Share these curriculum resources and help create bee-friendly habitats by planting for pollinators, ensuring a year-round supply of flowers for the insects that help feed our world.
Bee Art Movements
A range of projects around the world where people are using the arts to draw attention to the plight of bees and pollinators.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen
but they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and the natural worlds.