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Sustainable building products provider, Holcim UK, has supported a project aimed at boosting the population of bees and other pollinators across the UK.
The company teamed up with the North Wessex Downs Landscape Trust to provide more than 60,000 bulbs to be shared with community groups across the area and planted during October and early November.
The bulbs, which include Crocus, Grape Hyacinths, Star of Bethlehem, Bluebells and Snowdrops, will flower in the springtime and were chosen as they are good at attracting bees and other pollinators.
Holcim also sent out 1,000 bulbs to its teams as part of its own drive to help create places for nature at every one of its 200 plus UK sites.
Holcin UK head of sustainability, Tom Redfern, said: “We were delighted to support this vital project which empowers communities in this national landscape to create vital biodiversity for our bees and pollinators.
“A third of all food is pollinator dependent and when you think that the wild bee population has reduced by a third in the last 30 years that really demonstrates the type of positive action we need to take to address what is an ongoing nature crisis. “
