NL Pollinator Strategy “Bed & Breakfast for Bees”.

This Strategy focuses on all the pollinators and particularly wild bee species and provides an approach for ensuring their long-term conservation, through nesting sites and adequate food supply, in order to: promoting biodiversity; improving agriculture-nature interaction; helping beekeepers to improve the health of the honeybee. The Strategy moves from the consideration that pollination is an essential activity in the reproduction process for most food crops and plants, and therefore provides that pollinators and pollination will be sustainably maintained and promoted by 2030. The Strategy defines the following measurable objectives: boosting the number of bee species; promoting species diversity of bees; monitoring the impact of measures taken at national and regional level for ensuring protection of bees; allowing different layout and management of public space, allowing room for herbs and flowers to spread; promoting nature-based agriculture as an ecologically and economically sustainable form of food production; creating perspectives for action for farmers and horticulturists; raising awareness of the relationship between pollinators and natural pest management or control; strengthening apiculture and beekeeping practices.