Pollinator Week

Each year RPBO celebrates pollinator week by highlighting the important roles songbirds play in our ecosystems as pollinators. This year’s theme for Pollinator Week is entitled “Pollinators Weave Connections”, encouraging and inspiring us to appreciate the absolutely amazing work pollinators do in both creating and expressing human culture, on top of their essential role as pollinators.

There are many different ways we as humans can improve the survival of pollinators, including hummingbirds and songbirds, and pollinator week is a great time to focus on doing just that! Family-friendly activities like replacing your lawn with an economically and ecologically beneficial native plant garden including pollinator friendly plant species (they don’t require much watering once established!), removing invasive plants from your garden, reducing or ending the use of pesticides on lawns and croplands, getting outside and getting to know your local pollinator species including birds, bees, flies, and so much more.

If you are curious about starting a native plant garden, please visit the Pollinator Partnership Canada website and select the guide that fits best for your area. Those in Victoria and the surrounding area should pick the Eastern Vancouver Island guide. These are all free guides you can print out at home or read online.

https://pollinatorpartnership.ca/en/ecoregional-planting-guides

This pollinator week, you can make a big difference for the pollinators that we rely upon for our food & survival, as well as the incredible diversity and beauty with which they enrich our environment and our lives.