![Bee on blue flower close up and group of people in the background](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/bee_world_farnham.jpg?itok=kLD7CbIq)
The role of councils in helping pollinators
![Bee on blue flower close up and group of people in the background](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/bee_world_farnham.jpg?itok=kLD7CbIq)
![Road verge with bumblebee on red flower](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/road%20verge%20with%20bimblebee%20on%20red%20flower.jpg?itok=V6Ug5OtD)
What you can do
![Road verge with bumblebee on red flower](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/road%20verge%20with%20bimblebee%20on%20red%20flower.jpg?itok=V6Ug5OtD)
![Cornwall council receiving petition to ban bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/RS22547_Cornish%20Bee%20Petition%20Hand%20in.jpg?itok=V4-4L6zn)
Case studies: pollinator-friendly councils
![Cornwall council receiving petition to ban bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/RS22547_Cornish%20Bee%20Petition%20Hand%20in.jpg?itok=V4-4L6zn)
![Cabbage White butterfly on pink flower in long grass.](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/RS20792_Large_white_Harris%2C%20Outer%20Hebrides_July%202013_amelia%20Collins_.jpg?itok=nxTYiAsZ)
What else are councils doing?
![Cabbage White butterfly on pink flower in long grass.](http://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/styles/media_with_text_image/public/media/images/RS20792_Large_white_Harris%2C%20Outer%20Hebrides_July%202013_amelia%20Collins_.jpg?itok=nxTYiAsZ)
Bee-friendly Wales
Across Wales schools, councils and businesses are becoming more and more bee and pollinator friendly.
Welsh schools are getting bee friendly thanks to an initiative by Friends of the Earth Cymru in association with the Welsh Government. Follow one primary school’s journey to Bee Friendly status.