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Save the bees
We are working to save the bees - from asking Amazon to stop selling bee-killing pesticides to sharing bee-friendly garden tips - and you can help.
Bees play a crucial role in our lives. But as our society uses more pesticides, their populations are plummeting. Fortunately, we know how to help them: protecting already-existing bee habitat, expanding habitat by planting pollinator-friendly plants in our own gardens and on public lands, and ending the worst uses of the pesticides that are killing them. Together, we can save the bees.
The Latest on Save the bees
Thanksgiving, delicious pumpkin pie and the role of pollinators
Guide to transforming your yard with Colorado’s native plants
Updates
Expanding Colorado’s agricultural stewardship: incentivizing bee-friendly farming
Colorado’s wildlife plan gets a bug boost: Invertebrates take center stage
Strips of prairie alongside crops can save the soil
What You Can Do
Featured Resources
Guide to planting a pollinator-friendly garden
Protecting pollinators workbook for kids
How young environmentalists can help save the bees
Green schools guide
Did You Know?
Around the world, 75% of all food crops and a full 90% of all wild flowering plants rely on bees for pollination.
Learn more about the ways our world relies on bees.
The Latest
Bees’ noses are blinded by air pollution
New study shows air pollution is making it tough for bees to navigate their surroundings.
A small, important win for bees in Colorado
Now that bees are animals under Colorado law, the state can use existing funds and programs to protect them
New grants can make our roadsides bee-friendly
Bees need more habitat. Our highways can help.
How to avoid bee-killing pesticides
To save the bees, you should avoid toxic bee-killing pesticides called neonicotinoids. Use our guide to identify which pesticides contain neonicotinoids.
To save the bees, we must track pesticides
In a bit of good news, a federal pesticide tracking program, set to expire, has been restored.
Team
Blackledge
Steve
Blackledge
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Rakov
Susan
Rakov
Managing Director, Frontier Group; Senior Vice President, The Public Interest Network