Produced by ReWild Africa Productions for The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South Africa, forming part of WWF’s partnership with Nedbank.
WWF and Nedbank are creating communication resources to raise awareness and build understanding on honeybees and the challenges that we face in South Africa around these important pollinators.
Managed honeybees support a variety of livelihoods including honey production. More recently, pollination services have increasingly become a key source of revenue for beekeepers. Forage resources, whether indigenous, exotic, agriculture crops, garden plants and tree lanes in cities all sustain bee populations allowing honeybees to offer critical function to natural ecosystems and for pollination for about 50 crops in South Africa’s agriculture sector. Honeybees need a diverse range of quality and quantity of good forage resources to survive and produce. These forage resources are under threat putting both wild and managed honeybee populations at risk and need to be better managed. The main threats are changes in land use and land management, removal of invasive alien plant species that are important for forage, accessibility to important and secure forage resources, crop chemical regimes that impact the viability of these resources and impacts of climate change.
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