Four threatened bee species will benefit from new coastal habitats created by volunteers and conservationists in East Sussex.<\/p>\n
The project, in Hastings and St Leonards, has established wildflower meadows, hedgerows and specialised nesting sites to support several species, including the tormentil mining bee and long-horned bee. <\/p>\n
Natural England said the species have suffered severe population declines due to habitat loss across England.<\/p>\n
Lorraine Boast Millar, from Natural England, said a “bee corridor’ had been created along the East Sussex coastline by the organisation working with working Groundwork South, Hastings Borough Council, ecologists, and 185 volunteers.<\/p>\n
She added: “The initiative includes new wildflower meadows, restored woodland edges, enhanced hedgerows and urban habitat improvements in community spaces and allotments.”<\/p>\n
Natural England said the project demonstrated the impact of government investment in species recovery, with the project forming part of Natural England’s \u00a313m Species Recovery Programme Capital Grants Scheme.<\/p>\n
It said the grant had funded 63 conservation projects in England between August 2023 and March 2025, directly targeting the most threatened wildlife.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson added: “The initiative demonstrates how community involvement can deliver conservation outcomes for England’s most vulnerable wildlife. <\/p>\n
“Comprehensive bee surveys will monitor the success of habitat enhancements and track population recovery of the target species.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four threatened bee species will benefit from new coastal habitats created by volunteers and conservationists in East Sussex.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-73309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}