Trees for Bees

We support Greenpop reforestation projects with funds raised to plant trees to feed honey bees.

Our funds raised through this pledge are planting trees and feeding bees, fighting climate change, preserving habitats and conserving and cleaning water sources. Everyone can get buzzy with tree planting.

Join us as we target planting a minimum of 36 000 trees that are good nectar and pollen sources in reforestation projects in the Western Cape, projects that are part of Greenpop’s Forests for Life. Planting trees is costly and the pledge fund needs no less than R4.5 million to plant these trees.

THE LIST OF THE TREES FOR BEES IN THE PLATBOS AND BODHI KHAYA PROJECTS

Wondering about scalability?

Around 70% of the trees planted in these projects are Good Bee Food, with Greenpop targeting to plant over 500 000 trees by 2025, there is in fact opportunity to plant up to 360 000 trees for bees.

Every tree counts, whether its a gift for someone or a fundraiser by a school or company, planting trees for honey bees is a good buzz.

pledge DONATIONS since our fund launch on 4 feb 2020

R460 889,00 has been donated, planting 3834 bee food trees in Platbos & Bodhi Khaya Forests For Life projects.

DONATE A TREE FOR A HONEY BEE

MORE ABOUT GREENPOP REFORESTATION

the big picture

Forests provide vital services to both people and the planet, bolstering livelihoods, providing clean air and water, conserving biodiversity and responding to climate change.

They act as a source of food, medicine and fuel for more than one billion people. In addition to helping to respond to climate change and protect soil and water, forests hold more than three-quarters of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, provide many products and services that contribute to socio-economic development, and are particularly important for hundreds of millions of people in rural areas, including many of the world’s poorest.

However, in Sub-Saharan Africa, forest cover is decreasing at an alarming rate. From unregulated logging (often by foreign companies), to clearing for cash crops, to overuse of trees for fuel, human activity is putting increasing and devastating pressure on forest and woodland ecosystems.

The Bee Effect is an official supporter of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration with our Trees for Bees reforestation projects.

Through The Bee Effect reforestation and integrated biodiversity projects we are supporting healthy biodiversity corridors and playing a role in mitigating climate change impacts, programs that are part of our commitment to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as an Official Supporter.

STANDARDS OF PRACTICE TO GUIDE ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE ON ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION