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B-Lines is combatting the fast decline of the UK’s pollinator insects and helping their recovery by restoring lost grassland and wildflower meadow habitat that pollinator insects require for food and reproduction – creating habitat-corridors and 'insect superhighways' of wildflowers across the UK
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Situation
Bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other pollinating insects are essential. They pollinate our crops, enabling us to produce food to eat. Insects depend upon pollen and nectar from flowers as food sources, yet over 97% of all wildflower grasslands have been lost in England since the 1930s. This has led to a significant decline in pollinator insects, as they can no longer freely disperse. 40-70% of pollinators could go extinct if action is not taken to enable species to move through the landscape.
Solution
Across the UK, we are creating B-Lines – a network of wildflower ‘superhighways’, through which pollinator insects and other wildlife can move freely, seek out new areas, re-colonise and flourish. Mapped and delivered through partnerships with landowners, B-Lines is Buglife’s landscape-scale solution to the decline in pollinating insects. Having completed the B-Lines maps, we now need to fill the B-Lines with flowers, and enable pollinators to continue to fulfil their important ecological roles.
