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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project (www.scotsman.com)

submitted 9 months ago by GreyShuck@feddit.uk to c/nature@feddit.uk

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The bumblebee population has made an impressive comeback in a developed area by increasing to 116 times what it was two years ago thanks to a nature restoration group.

Rewilding Denmarkfield, a 90-acre project based just north of Perth, has been working to restore nature to green spaces in an increasingly built up area for the past two years.

Statistics from the charity show in 2021, when some of the fields managed by the project were still barley monoculture, only 35 bumblebees were counted.

But by 2023, after just two years of nature restoration work in the same fields, the population increased to 4,056. The diversity of bumblebee also doubled, according to the charity, from five to ten different species.

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[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

This is amazing! Stories like this are proof that it's never too late to turn things around.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 9 points 9 months ago

It's always great to read stories like these. It shows that something can be done if there is the will to do it.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What was the process to get this done? What was done to get people on board with it? It was a success, so there are likely lessons on how to make progress elsewhere.

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

There are some details here and here. I'd expect that reaching out the project team themselves would be the next step. I'd expect that they will have a management plan and project summary of some kind that they could share at the very least.