This week, the Safeguard project consortium came together for the #SafeguardFinale, marking the conclusion of 4,5 years of impactful work dedicated to European #WildPollinators 🐝🌼
📄 Read our final press release here:
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Katarzyna Biala (@eea.europa.eu) closed by presenting the EEA's role in bridging science & policy - including mapping key pollinator areas under the New Deal for Pollinators and the upcoming State of Nature report.
Future priority: moving beyond economic valuation. 🐝
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In the final session of today's meeting, Adam Vanbergen presented the Safeguard Integrated Assessment Framework , using European expert elicitation to assess pollinator pressures to 2024 & project to 2035.
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Delphine Dupeux from @eurolandorg.bsky.social
closed the session with the landowner perspective: market instability & regulatory complexity are key barriers.
Pollinator recovery needs cooperative monitoring frameworks that involve land managers. 🐝
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Zafarani Uwingabire (@inrae-france.bsky.social) presented research linking stakeholder worldviews to management preferences.
Four profiles were identified - from ethics-driven to human-centered approaches. Governance preferences align with these worldviews, not policy logic. 🐝
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The session continued with René van der Wal from SLU presenting a new handbook for valuing pollination across ecological, economic & sociocultural dimensions.
Pollinator interventions yield co-benefits spanning pest control, climate regulation & soil health. 🐝
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The @safeguard-pollinators.eu wraps up in Brussels this week, but the work to reverse pollinator loss is far from over. 🐝
Explore the Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub (Safe-Hub), developed under the project and set for further growth under @valor-project.eu 👇
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András Báldi from the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research gave an overview of urban pollinator-promoting interventions.
‼️Interventions like flower sowing, extensive mowing, and species diversification significantly increase pollinator abundance and species richness.
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Our third session focused on integrated approaches to pollinator protection.
Lorenzo Marini (University of Padova) discussed effective responses to counteract pollinator decline in managed landscapes. 🌱
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Dirk Maes from @europebutterfly.bsky.social: Europe's grassland butterflies have declined 40% since 1991.
Agricultural intensification, nitrogen deposition, and habitat loss are the main drivers.
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Simon Potts (@unirdg-artcol.bsky.social), Adam Vanbergen (@inrae-france.bsky.social) & Mark Brown (@rhulgeography.bsky.social) discussed emerging pressures on pollinators.
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Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter talked about landscape management and resource competition for pollinator conservation.
Flower richness matters more than habitat size for pollinators - even small, well-managed grassland fragments make a real difference.
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The second session of the day focused on understanding pressures on pollinators that can guide land management approaches.
Oliver Schweiger from @ufz.de opened the session with a synthesis of major drivers of pollinator decline.
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Niamh Phelan from IUCN talked stakeholder perspective on future directions.
She called for full EU PoMS implementation across member states, cross-border coordination, and urgent investment in national taxonomic capacity.
Without these, Red List assessments lose precision.
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The first session of the day focused on pollinator monitoring.
Some updates from Denis Michez and Nacho Bartomeus: The updated European Red List of Bees classifies 9% of bee species as threatened or near-threatened.
📊 Data deficiency has been reduced from 56% in 2014 to 14%.
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‼️After 4.5 years of safeguarding European wild pollinators, the Safeguard project is coming to an end.
Join us today for our final meeting in Brussels and get the latest updates on project outputs!
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