“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more
animals, no more man.” Albert Einstein
Checkpoint 1
What per cent of the world’s nutrition sources is pollinated by bees?
Food production depends heavily upon pollinators. Pollinators include a wide range of animals that play a crucial role in transferring pollen between flowers and help with their fertilization process. More than 75 per cent of the leading global food crops (accounting for 90 per cent of global food production) require pollination (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services 2016). One of the ways pollinators are lost is through changes in land use and land cover (Simmons et al. 2019).