Initiative also promoted to donate 200 queens to flooded beekeepers
Ravenna has the first bee garden thanks to four thousand euros raised with a public collection. Near the municipal offices in viale Berlinguer 30, next to the police headquarters, an urban green space with flowers and plants with a high nectar and pollen content that provide an environment rich in resources for bees and other pollinators. A mix of wildflower essences composed of 59 types of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous inflorescences. The “Let’s Save Bees and Biodiversity” project, sponsored by the Municipality of Ravenna in collaboration with Lions International, will be inaugurated tomorrow, April 27, at 9.30. The fundraising also allowed the donation of 200 queen openers to the flooded Romagna beekeepers of Ara (Romagna Beekeepers Association), useful for the repopulation of the hives heavily affected by the floods in Romagna in May 2023.
Gianfranco Medri, Lions officer of the “Let’s save bees and biodiversity” service, highlighted that domestic and wild bees are responsible for approximately 70% of the pollination of plant species living on the planet, guaranteeing 35% of global food production . But the survival of bees is strongly threatened by environmental pollution, climate change, intensive agricultural management and the use of pesticides, to which, in our Romagna, was added the flood in May 2023, which is estimated to have destroyed over 5,000 hives. Medri then highlighted the importance of bee repopulation for Romagna and national agriculture; in fact, the human species could not survive for long without bees and other pollinating insects, as it is estimated that a third of our food depends on the pollination work of bees, the little queens of biodiversity.
