Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Making a Buzz
Making a Buzz for the Coast - an exciting and ambitious project spans over 300 miles of the Kent and East Sussex coast from Dartford to Rye, focuses on restoring and creating habitat for wild bees.
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Features of the project include:
Practical conservation and habitat creation activities; the creation of bee-friendly road verges; and the development of a cost-benefit tool for local authorities to demonstrate the benefits of bee-friendly planting/ cutting regimes.
Training volunteers as bee-friendly garden advisors and working with Kent Wildlife Trust to expand their Garden with the Best Buzz competition.
A Buzzing Roadshow that will tour communities to increase public awareness about the importance of bumblebees.
Community workshops to engage new audiences with bumblebees through photography and art.
Training volunteers in identifying bumblebees, with a particular focus on encouraging people to record individual Shrill carder bee sightings.
