Is there a Plan Bee?

Bees are dying out and that’s a big problem for us human beings. If bees and other pollinators disappeared altogether, we would lose a third of our food supply. Half of all the fruit and vegetables on our supermarket shelves would vanish. And the impact on our planet's biodiversity would be catastrophic. So what's our Plan Bee? How do we save the world's pollinators? In this episode, we dive into an example from the Nordic countries where work is under way to save the local brown bee from extinction. And we look at what is being done around the world to protect bees and the global food supply. 

This episode comes from an online Nordic Talks event organized by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle.

 

“We’re losing the genetic diversity and we’re losing the unique traits of bees attached to the local environments.”

Maria Kjetså, advisor at NordGen, the Nordic Genetic Resource Center