Making space for bees, radical planning and the messy city
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Abstract
Bees and other pollinating insects are increasingly at risk in agricultural spaces, due to years of intensive monocultures, pathogens, imported species and pesticides. New research identifies urban spaces as a bastion of insect biodiversity, but in order to maintain these precious species space must be made available to combat loss of habitat. As the spaces need not be large, radical and activist planning efforts to introduce pockets of wilderness in the cracks of the city may offer the best hope to maintain bees in urban environments.