From the spread in the range of the Asian hornet in the UK to strange swarming, the effects of climate change are increasingly made apparent across the UK and around the world. So what are we we going to do about it?

This year for the GMF we’re raising funds to help build climate resilience. While the climate already changing and bringing new and bigger problems communities on the front line are adopting solutions to adapt to new realities.

New realities

From the UK to Ghana we asked our communities about the challenges they’re facing. There are parallels across continents from problematic rain to reduced honey yields. We mapped out some of the responses.

Stark realities

For some communities climate change is making life more difficult, for others it’s a threat to life itself. Last year we received a tragic update from one of our beekeeping communities in Uganda, Ray of Hope.

This community is located near the Rwenzori mountains. The Rwenzori mountains are higher than the Alps and have glaciers. Like glaciers around the world, warming temperatures means more melt water and more precipitation as rain, rather than snow that stays in the mountains.

Unfortunately the Ray of Hope community experienced a catastrophic flood. Community members lost their lives and many more lost their livelihoods including hives.

A Ray of Hope

The Ray of Hope live up to their name and determined to rebuild after the flood, they got back in contact with us to request support replacing the hives lost to the floods. We provided support to replace the hives and they quickly got them recolonised.

This community is determined to rebuild with the help of beekeeping.

This campaign is all about how beekeeping can help build climate resilience from farming, to tree planting to supporting social cohesion in communities hosting climate refugees.