38DEGREES. THIS ONE IS FOR BEES

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Dear John,  Our bees are under threat. Over the last few decades, we’ve lost 97% of our wildflower meadows. [1] Our bees’ food supply is starting to run out. And if they’ve got less food, there’ll be fewer bees to pollinate our crops - which means we’ll all have less food too. [2] To make matters worse, the government just authorised emergency use of bee-harming pesticides. [3]  But there’s something we can do today to help improve the situation - by giving our bees the food they need to thrive. If thousands of us plant bee-friendly flowers in our gardens, window boxes or private green spaces, we’ll be doing our bit to save our bees! [4]And we've got 60,000 packets to send out to people up and down the country so they can do just that! So John, can you sign up now to get your very own packet of seeds to plant this spring - and chip in for others to get a packet too, if you can? Seeds will be limited to one packet per person, to make sure that as many people as possible can take part!  SIGN UP FOR SEEDS Don’t want to plant seeds yourself? Why not chip in to pay for someone else's packet so we can send out even more seeds to help our bees?  CHIP IN There’s a lot going on in the world right now. It can leave us feeling powerless and worried for the future. But there are still small things we can do to make our corner of the planet a little better - including planting wildflowers to support our declining bee population.  It doesn’t matter whether you’ve got a large garden or a plant pot on a windowsill - anyone can plant some seeds to help our bees.  Last year an incredible 60,000 of us planted seeds to help protect our bees. So let’s do it again this year, and make sure that we fill our gardens, window boxes or private green spaces with flower food to help our buzzy friends.  So John, will you give our bees a helping hand - by signing up to get some wildflower seeds today - then chipping in to cover the cost of your packet, if you can? The seeds will need to be planted in the next few weeks, so the more of us who sign up now, the more flowers there’ll be for our bees!  SIGN UP FOR SEEDS Or if you can’t plant some seeds yourself, can you chip in so we can send some seeds to someone who can?  CHIP IN Thank you for everything you do,  Myles, Matt, Megan and the 38 Degrees team  P.S. Seeds will be posted at the end of March, and should be with you by April 15th - ready to be planted. If you have any more questions about this campaign or the seeds themselves, check out our FAQ page: https://38d.gs/SeedsFAQ  P.P.S If you haven't already seen how the 38 Degrees community is responding to the war in Ukraine, please see our blog post about it here.  We know there are lots of issues the 38 Degrees community cares about, so we're also continuing to run some of our long running campaigns - including this project to help our bees thrive.  NOTES:  [1] BBC: Wildflowers: important to pollinators, important to people  [2] National Geographic: Insects are vanishing at an alarming rate - but we can save them  The Express: Bees crisis: THIS is what the world loses if bumble bees die out The Guardian: World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity  [3] CPM Magazine: Emergency authorisation granted for Cruiser SB  [4] The Conversation: Why urban gardens are crucial for conserving bees and butterflies – and how you can help them  National Geographic: Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of ‘climate chaos’

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