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GREAT HONEY BEE DAY IN AUGUSTÓW FOREST

The Great Honey Bee Day is celebrated on 8th August to remind as many people as possible of an irreplaceable role bees have in the environment and the threat of their extinction. The first edition of the Great Honey Bee Day was held in 2013 in educational institutions throughout Poland (especially in rural areas). In 2014, it was held as part of the 4th edition of the programme called “Z Kujawskim Pomagamy Pszczołom.” This Day has already become an essential part of Poles’ ecological calendars.
The goals of the Great Honey Bee Day:
- to teach participants about the diversity of the world of insect pollinators,
- to present the role and function of pollinators in ecosystems and to refer them to the human functioning in the natural environment,
- to show problems concerning the protection of pollinators as well as to list activities that can be undertaken by each of us.
For the first time, the Augustów Forest District together with the Płaska Forest District in Żyliny joined this Polish national educational campaign on the role of bees. Due to that reason, educators from both forest districts visited the Forest Academy in Augustów. Apart from listening to a short lecture and participating in a field game, the youngest could help bees by building hotels for the insects. All that was done to show the participants how significant bees are in our lives and how each of us, regardless of a place of living (a city, a village), can take care of these insects. It is a very important lesson because, as scientists claim, the number of bees is decreasing. Even Albert Einstein said that: “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
Over the last four years, we have tried to return to traditional tree beekeeping in our forest thanks to the project called “Traditional Beekeeping: Rescue of Wild Bees in the Woods” which was executed by the Augustów Forest District and funded from the Norway Grants. The objective of the project was to explain the role of bees in the ecosystem and raise social awareness of the need to actively protect native bee species and stop biological imbalance and degradation of ecosystems’ functions. The educational aim was to highlight the importance and complexity of traditional bee keeping as well as to facilitate undertaking independent activities focused on the improvement of the living conditions of wild bees. A number of educational trails connected with the issues of tree beekeeping were created. Such publications as, for example, “The Guide to Nectar Sources”, have been published and enjoy a lot of interest among beekeepers. Several tree and log hives were built in pines. The conducted activities focused on protecting bees and not on harvesting honey.

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