The crisis facing insect pollinators is no longer only an environmental issue. Today, it directly affects the economy, food security and the stability of Europe’s rural areas.

A major scientific paper that for decades helped defend Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been formally retracted.

BeeLife is proud to announce that it has been awarded EU funding for the EUBeeLovers Project, a major milestone for our organisation and for the European beekeeping community as a whole.

BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination has launched the tender BeeLife/EUBEELOVERS/2025/01 to select an Implementing Body for the large-scale EU-funded awareness campaign EUBEELOVERS, running in Belgium from 2026 to 2028.

BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination has launched the tender BeeLife/EUBEELOVERS/2025/02 to select an Evaluation Body for its upcoming EU-funded awareness campaign, EUBEELOVERS, to be implemented in Belgium between 2026 and 2028.

The combination - deregulation + loss of detection capacity - creates a structural vulnerability in Europe’s biosafety architecture. BeeLife’s perspective on the provisional political agreement.

Pollinators may be invisible to most European citizens, but not to companies that base their work on biodiversity and natural ingredients.

A New Policy Brief to Rethink Agriculture Through the Lens of Pollinators. How can we build food systems that are both productive and truly sustainable? Our new Policy Brief on Pollinator-Friendly Agricultural Policies brings together a decade of scientific evidence to highlight why supporting pollinators is essential for ecosystem health, agricultural resilience, and human wellbeing.

Research highlights a wide range of workable alternatives that reduce dependence on pesticides: Integrated Pest Management (IPM), biological control, ecological engineering, protective netting, natural insecticides, and mutual insurance schemes that protect farmers’ incomes.

Over the last decade, the European Union has built a framework of directives and regulations designed to reduce the environmental impact of pesticides and promote a transition toward sustainable farming.These laws should define how Europe will protect the health of its citizens and its ecosystems.

By 2008, European beekeepers had organised through the Task Force on European Beekeeping Coordination, calling for pesticide risk assessments that matched real-world conditions. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) responded. Between 2011 and 2013, its Bee Guidance Document introduced a revolutionary framework—one that finally considered not only acute toxicity but also chronic, larval, and sublethal impacts across different bee species.

BeeLife supports responsible science and innovation — welcoming new tools like microbial technologies when they are properly studied, monitored, and applied within clear ethical and ecological frameworks.