Three important pollinators in Europe (from left): hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum), the yellow loosestrife bee (Macropis europaea) and the common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus). (Image: Pexels / gailhampshire - Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 / Friedrich Böhringer - Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.5)
Three important pollinators in Europe ( from left ): hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum), the yellow loosestrife bee (Macropis europaea) and the common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus). (Image: Pexels / gailhampshire - Creative Commons CC BY 2. Friedrich Böhringer - Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2. The newly funded EU Horizon 2020 project Safeguard will address the decline of wild pollinators, its effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and options to restore pollinator diversity. Wild pollinators are a key part of European biodiversity and provide a wide range of benefits to crops, wild plants, and human wellbeing. At the same time wild pollinators face multiple threats in Europe and around the world, including climate change, land-use and habitat loss. That's why pollinators are declining in number and diversity.
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