Resource: United Kingdom

The important role of legumes as a food resource for pollinators and species that can help provide the forage reserves throughout the year. 

Practical steps you can take to ensure hedges on your farm support pollinator populations and improve the pollination of your crops.

Simple measures you can take to encourage the more common, widespread species of butterflies and moths on your farm.

Guidance on selecting species and managing leys to benefit pollinators, linking to the LegLink project and Countryside Stewardship options.

A short video of why we need pollinators and they need us. What simple actions can we take to help reduce the many threats pollinators face?

Practical advice on how we as farmers and growers, can manage pollinators and achieve optimum returns, and pointers for policymakers.

Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust information on managing flower-rich habitats on your farm with links to some important research. 

A “Call to Action” from Defra and The Wildlife Trusts providing practical information to help us increase food and shelter for pollinators.

Defra’s National Pollinator Strategy; established to help protect the future of pollinators and ensure their needs are addressed in land and habitat management.