We received a message from ‘Bee the Change’ this week about the progress on their new Bee Sanctuary venture in Cornwall.
With the help of volunteers, work has now begun to establish the ‘Bee the Change’ bee sanctuary at Pradannack Downs on the Lizard Peninsula – it will be Cornwall’s first bee sanctuary.
The sanctuary is the brainchild of beekeeper Malcolm N. Higgingbottom, chairman of GoodIsPlanetEarth, and will soon be home to up to five million bees and 100 hives.
GoodIsPlanetEarth has been working to acquire land to house the bee sanctuary for the past eight years and is thrilled with the Pradannack site. Malcolm says:
“Although it has been fly-tipped on for decades, work has already started on the clean-up operation and in the absence of development, gorse, heather and wild flowers have flourished. It’s a paradise for bees! Local growers will no doubt see huge benefit when we introduce such a vast number of pollinators to the area.It’s been a long road to get here, but now we have the land, it’s all systems go!”
Volunteers have started to clear the land down at the site. GoodIsPlanetEarth works with disadvantaged groups that form the basis of its volunteer pool. It has links with local body UFO, a group allied to the UK’s primary drug and alcohol treatment service provider, Addaction. UFO members are in sobriety and seeking a new way of life. They are regularly invited to the property and have been helping clear the land and set up spaces where the bee hives will be sited.
Malcom added: “I’ve been a bee keeper for many years and am appalled at the global reduction in their populations. We’re finally in a position to put something back. The dream is to now build an eco-friendly centre that’s not only a sanctuary for bees and other wildlife, but also for an educational hub for everything related to sustainable living. We’ll offer a range of resources for those who want to learn more about how to lessen their impact on our wonderful planet.”
You can read the message we received from Bee the Change here: http://www.causes.com/causes/430648-bee-the-change/updates/791195
Or visit http://www.goodisplanetearth.org/for the latest information and progress on the sanctuary.
