Colorado has seen a 72% decline in the western bumble bee, according to a recent study from the National Academy of Sciences. Advocacy groups have been lobbying lawmakers for years to increase legal protections for bees and other animals that […]
Headlines – December 8, 2021
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Keeping Bees Safe in Boulder and Beyond
“We’re really in a place where if we don’t do it, no one will.” -David Wheeler, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Bee Safe Boulder. For the past three years, Bee Safe Boulder has been working to create a more bee friendly […]
Bee Safe Boulder goes global
“This is a way of raising awareness and helping people to understand that they can be part of a solution, not just look at a problem and wonder what to do, but actually do something.” In 2014 David Wheeler and […]
Celebrating the Beesafe movement in Boulder.
“We feel that this is a movement that will keep going.” In 2014 a group of neighbors in the Melody Catalpa neighborhood in North Boulder got together to take a pledge not to use pesticides that were harmful to bees. […]
Fairview High Students Continue Protecting Bee Colonies
It was in 2010 that about a dozen children, some using a bench to reach the microphone, asked Boulder City Council to ban chemical spraying in community parks where they play. The city council responded by terminating their use including […]