BEE the CHANGE and CELEBRATE!

BEE the Change Crew

Right off the bat.  We should all be concerned about the importance of bees if we really want to maintain a healthy eco system. Yeah, that's right this post is all about our wonderful Bee Family.
Well, thank Good is Planet Earth for stepping up and wanting to reclaim some land so that they can create a sanctuary for bees in Pradannack Downs on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.
Want to know more about them and their cause?  Here's the beautiful email message eye received from them and please support their cause, and make a donation--If you can.

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Bee the Change reaches fruition

Cornwall’s first bee sanctuary is now under development. Work has begun to establish the Bee the Change bee sanctuary at Pradannack Downs on the Lizard Peninsula. The sanctuary is the brainchild of Malcolm N. Higgingbottom, chairman of GoodIsPlanetEarth, and will soon be home to up to five million bees and 100 hives.

GoodIsPlanetEarth has been working to acquire land to house the bee sanctuary for the past eight years and is thrilled with the Pradannack site. Malcolm says: “Although it has been fly-tipped on for decades, work has already started on the clean-up operation and in the absence of development, gorse, heather and wild flowers have flourished. It’s a paradise for bees! Local growers will no doubt see huge benefit when we introduce such a vast number of pollinators to the area.

“It’s been a long road to get here, but now we have the land, it’s all systems go! I’ve been a bee keeper for many years and am appalled at the global reduction in their populations. We’re finally in a position to put something back. The dream is to now build an eco-friendly centre that’s not only a sanctuary for bees and other wildlife, but also for an educational hub for everything related to sustainable living. We’ll offer a range of resources for those who want to learn more about how to lessen their impact on our wonderful planet.”

As the centre is developed, there are various courses that will be offered on topics including bee keeping, permaculture and sustainable energy ideas to use at home. The ethos is environmental awareness, sustainability and accountability.

Of course one of the most critical barriers to realising the dream is securing the necessary funding. But the charity has already submitted several grant applications which, if successful, will provide much needed resources to develop the centre. At the time of printing, they are also growing a base of volunteers to help develop the site.

GoodIsPlanetEarth works with several disadvantaged groups that form the basis of its volunteer pool. It has links with local body UFO, a group allied to the UK’s primary drug and alcohol treatment service provider, Addaction. UFO members are in sobriety and seeking a new way of life. They are regularly invited to the property and have been helping clear the land and set up spaces where the bee hives will be sited. Plans are also in development to begin a volunteer programme for tagged offenders. The rationale is to give members of vulnerable groups a new purpose through involvement in a project that fosters a sense of belonging, a connection to their local environment and a sense of purpose that adds to their reasons to stay on track.

The charity is currently seeking funding to erect two buildings that would be used for educational purposes on the land. If you would like to offer a donation to this worthwhile programme, please follow the link on this page …or if you’re keen to come along and volunteer, contact Malcolm on 07429399432.

GoodIsPlanetEarth is a leading global campaigner for the protection of bees. The issue has the support of EU Health Commissioner, Tonio Borg, who this month said that our bees are: "vital to our ecosystem and contribute over 22bn euros (£18.5bn; $29bn) annually to European agriculture.” GoodIsPlanetEarth was one of a select number of bodies that submitted a paper to the Environmental Audit Committee – Pollinators and Pesticides, which, according to the Independent newspaper, “…gave the European Commission the support it needed to push through an EU-wide ban on using three neonicotinoids on crops attractive to bees.”

GoodIsPlanetEarth has nearly 200,000 members worldwide and is growing at an exponential rate."

Sooooooooooo, come on everybody and "BEE the CHANGE; and LET'S CELEBRATE OUR VICTORIES TOGETHER!

PEACE/BLESSINGS
BEC D'signer Net-Hetep Ta'Nesert