Building on the success of the first phase

We are at the start of the journey. As we look forward to the next five years and delivering the 186 actions in this 2021-2025 Plan, we know we will need to engage more, monitor more, and manage more land for biodiversity.

We need to support all those people, across all sectors, who want to help. We need to regularly monitor bumblebees, solitary bees and hoverflies across the island - in a scientific and systematic way - so that we can understand the long-term impacts of the Pollinator Plan. We need to build on the groundwork established in the first phase, so that we fully normalise a better way of managing our landscape that supports our struggling biodiversity. We need to talk less to the ‘converted’ and bring the message to new and wider audiences. We need to support beekeepers and ensure that honeybees are part of a balanced and cohesive pollinator message. We need to imagine what pollinators themselves would probably say – ‘good start, but please do more and do it quicker!’

The Pollinator Plan has shown that in every sector and in every corner of this island, people do care about biodiversity, and that we can come together to make changes for the better. Lots of small actions, taken together, make a big difference. The booklet 'Working Together for Biodiversity', published to mark the end of the first phase, celebrates those efforts and the thousands of positive changes already made. Download your copy here: https://pollinators.ie/working-togetherfor-biodiversity/

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We know what we need to do. Across the island, the seeds of change are everywhere. We have to continue; but we also have to do more, and we have to do it quickly. Pollinators are in a better situation than they were five years ago, but they still face huge difficulties. If the last five years have taught us anything, it’s that, together, we can change their fate.