Be fair to Bees, Plan Bee –Help farmers safeguard our valuable Nature!
Young people from Northern Ireland are asking government to support devolved institutions by having a UK wide strategy to provide funding to support farmers delivering valuable ecosystem services, such as providing wildflowers for pollinators.
6,045 Signatures
Our Co Down research 2018 has shown that wildlife-friendly farming supported four times the number of pollinators compared to a farm that had never been managed for wildlife. Insect pollinated crops are valued at £603M per year (UK National Ecosystem Assessment). What food can we buy? How much will it cost us? Can we go out into nature and still be astounded by its beauty? Without bees, we dread to know the answers. The question is not should we save bees, but why have we not already started?
Top 10 Constituency Signatories to the Petition
| Constituency Signatures | % of Total Signatures | MP | Party-Constituency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 493 | 8.156% | Chris Hazzard MP | Sinn Féin South Down |
| 388 | 6.419% | Jim Shannon MP | Democratic Unionist Party Strangford |
| 159 | 2.63% | Stephen Farry | Alliance North Down |
| 99 | 1.638% | Rt Hon Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson MP | Democratic Unionist Party Lagan Valley |
| 99 | 1.638% | Claire Hanna | Social Democratic & Labour Party Belfast South |
| 84 | 1.39% | Gavin Robinson MP | Democratic Unionist Party Belfast East |
| 60 | 0.993% | Rt Hon Sammy Wilson MP | Democratic Unionist Party East Antrim |
| 50 | 0.827% | Mr Gregory Campbell MP | Democratic Unionist Party East Londonderry |
| 38 | 0.629% | Carla Lockhart | Democratic Unionist Party Upper Bann |
| 37 | 0.612% | Ian Paisley MP | Democratic Unionist Party North Antrim |
Top 50 Constituencies by Number of Signatures
2,249 signatures - 37.0% of total
